A World Turned Upside Down: Australian News

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Wanderfound · January 31, 2021, 9:12am

Dunno how much exposure they’ve been getting in the larger media markets, but these ads are airing during the cricket and AFLW matches on Tasmanian TV:

Funded by this guy:

Wanderfound · January 31, 2021, 11:18am

After a year’s worth of constant media on the theme of “Australians are too lazy to do farm work, therefore we need to cut unemployment benefits / conscript the unemployed for involuntary labour / throw open the borders despite Covid”, surprise, surprise, surprise:

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Wanderfound · February 2, 2021, 12:31am

Dr Campion, who has received funding to track the effect of the pandemic on right-wing extremism, said it wasn’t unusual to see Australian extremists display similar ideas to those in Europe or the United States because in the online world the communities are so integrated.

While some meetings may have slowed during lockdowns, Dr Campion said Sovereign Citizens and some elements of QAnon continued to meet in person, including in gyms and outside exercise locations.

“When it comes to radicalisation and offline and online dynamics, it’s 2021, we can’t divorce the online and offline domains.”

Last year the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation revealed far-right extremism now makes up 40 per cent of its counter-terrorism case load, up from 10-15 per cent before 2016.

Professor Barton said the increase has been steady throughout the four years of Donald Trump’s presidency in the United States.

“What’s generated out of the American experience goes into online forums and those forums are not confined to national boundaries,” he said.

Leader of the Free™️ World.

Wanderfound · February 2, 2021, 1:44am

A month ago:

This week:

Wanderfound · February 2, 2021, 10:04am

Western Australia’s turn now:

The dog is okay:

Wanderfound · February 2, 2021, 10:10am

Wanderfound · February 4, 2021, 12:52am

Wanderfound · February 4, 2021, 9:53pm

Note the framing: the pastoralists intentions are purely noble; no malice or aggression, they just want to be left alone. Using enslaved convict labor is an unremarkable, ethically neutral act. The pastoralist is presented as a poor struggling “battler” (despite them being the landed aristocracy of the colony, at the pinnacle of the local economic order with giant estates run by enslaved labour).

Destroying the local’s hunting tools (AKA means of survival) is presented as a pacifistic, altruistic act. Any violence by the white settlers is just a reaction to Indigenous “crimes” against white property.

Etc.

This is no better than the US’s pseudohistorical horseshit about “Cowboys and Indians” and the “Noble Confederacy”.

Lucy_Gothro1 · February 18, 2021, 3:43am

Migawd.

MarjaE · February 18, 2021, 4:25am

It’s the link tax/kill the internet proposal, isn’t it?

Lucy_Gothro1 · February 18, 2021, 4:48am

News publishers want money from websites that use their content; I don’t know if that’s anything to do with the link tax/kill the internet proposal.

adonai · February 19, 2021, 2:41am

No, this is literally for linking. There’s some other nasty crap in this law, like Google having to advise the media companies of any changes to their search algorithm with two weeks notice.
Facebook is shit, but this is a law written by Newscorp.

Lucy_Gothro1 · February 19, 2021, 4:17am

Thank you for the correction.

adonai · February 19, 2021, 4:31am

No problem!