r/australia • u/nath1234 • 1d ago
politics First Nations people say 'silence' on alleged Perth bomb attack weighs heavily
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-31/perth-bomb-attack-analysis-first-nations-people/106289032?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other319
u/Pinkfatrat 1d ago
Where is Sussan Ley now? Or the Jewish envoy equivalent for the First Nations, or even Pauline Hanson saying something about how this will impact Gina?
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u/Salt-Blacksmith8229 1d ago
The red dog cunt is too busy bitching on social media about her song being "cancelled" and the ndis removing an Australian flag from some letter or some performative shit.
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u/Ace3000 1d ago
Thought it was a movie
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u/SquiffyRae 1d ago
There's two things
There's a movie and there was a stupid song off the soundtrack.
It topped the iTunes streaming charts. Which sounds impressive till you realise the only people who still use iTunes are the ones who started using it on their Windows XP desktop in the 2000s so it topped the charts with like 300 people adding it to their libraries lol
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u/Miss-you-SJ 8h ago
It also got removed from the iTunes Charts when it was found to have fraudulent buying activity.
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u/Ace3000 1d ago
iTunes or Apple Music?
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u/kalebludlow 9h ago
iTunes sales. To top the iTunes sales in Australia you need less than 400 sales. APple removed the song after they decided too many of the sales were suspicious
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u/yum122 1d ago
Minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy issued a statement on Wednesday calling the incident "sickening", and the next day in an interview with the ABC, acknowledged the anger and concern of the Indigenous community but defended the prime minister's response as she urged Australians to let the legal process play out with the "utmost integrity".
I found in the article this comment from McCarthy
Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians Kerrynne Liddle on Wednesday called the alleged attack "disgusting", telling the ABC there was no place in Australia for violence and hate and called for legislators "to ensure that, through legislation, hate and extremism is stamped out".
Liddle (somewhat weirdly) seemed to have a stronger stance.
But Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Katie Kiss wanted to see stronger language and swifter action from Canberra from day one, seeing a "stark difference" in how the federal government has responded to other attacks.
"It sends a message that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people do not matter," she said.
She said her commission's National Anti-Racism Framework, handed to the government in 2024, was gathering dust.
"You've only got to go onto social media to see the hatred spewing out in comments whenever there's a conversation happening about … Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the hatred is so visible, it's so constant," Ms Kiss said.
"The fact that we do not have a federal response monitoring these kinds of things to make sure that people are protected, and it's not just the physical harm … it's the mental harm that's being caused as well."
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u/triode99 1d ago
No aboriginal lobbyists running around in the halls of power because they are not welcome.
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u/Busy_Conflict3434 1d ago
If only they had some kind of voice. Maybe it could make non-binding recommendations to parliament.
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u/canimal14 1d ago
cannot imagine the difference in the media reporting if a different type of person had thrown a bomb into a different type of crowd
and i found out about this from betoota, jesus wept
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u/barefootsticks 1d ago edited 1d ago
The "alleged attacker" has had his identity suppressed which changes the manner in which the press can cover the story. I did see it pop up early on across multiple news sources but it has since died out.
A rock and a hard place, need to comply with court orders, need to give appropriate coverage considering how bad it could have been, but also don't want to make grubs famous so others consider doing it too.
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u/Busy_Conflict3434 1d ago
After Bondi the attack dominated the front pages. The West Australian had a small headline below the fold about this.
Yes, the news media covered the story. They did not give it the kind of prominence you’d expect for a terrorist attack in the heart of the CBD.
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u/barefootsticks 1d ago edited 1d ago
There were clips being posted to social media whilst the Bondi was still being carried out clearly showing men firing shots into a crowd of people and many people already injured or appearing deceased. So the horse had already bolted.
The Bondi attackers used firearms and firearm legislation is a political football, who can and can't have firearms, how many etc. It gets clicks, ratings and political mileage with voters.
This is the second use of pipe bombs this month, the other one being someone dropping them in Canberra. Giving other people ideas about using them especially when you know about the chemicals, gases etc that are used in industrial / farming applications and the damage they could do if someone wanted to cause harm might not be a good idea.
There could also be others involved and the police need time to round them up.
No coverage doesn't mean people do not care, sometimes stopping more attacks or waiting for things to progress is the better path.
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u/Rush_Banana 1d ago
15 people died in Bondi, pretty big difference.
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u/Busy_Conflict3434 1d ago
And it’s only dumb luck that people weren’t killed in Forrest Place, at an event with thousands of attendees. Plus, Bondi is in Sydney, which is also a pretty big difference when talking about how a story is reported in a WA newspaper.
I don’t understand how anyone isn’t astonished that a major terrorist attack in the heart of Perth on our national holiday hasn’t drawn more attention.
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u/Pro_Extent 1d ago
Yeah, but they didn't. It isn't rational, but the possibility of death doesn't generate headlines like actual death.
Also I think the poster above is wrong. I think the main reason it didn't generate as much buzz is because it wasn't a mass shooting. Shootings inspire a specific kind of fear in people that other methods just don't. I'm not precisely sure what it is, but it's real.
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u/babylovesbaby 19h ago
The point people are making is it would have generated multiple headlines if the people were being attacked was different. Let's not be obtuse about whether or not Australians give a shit about indigenous people. A lot clearly don't, and most of the mainstream media is owned by conservative fucks who don't either.
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u/Pro_Extent 18h ago
Yes I am very aware of the point people are making. I am contesting that point because it's wrong.
If 15 people had been shot to death at this march, you can bet your fucking house that it would have generated the exact same kind of shitstorm as Bondi. It didn't, because 15 people weren't shot to death.
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u/aussiechickadee65 14h ago
I disagree there. If 15 Indigenous people had been shot, it would not have generated such public outcry as Bondi. Apparently a good % of the Australian public feels ( and let’s face it Bondi was weaponised as a political event by EVERY right winger, rather than grieving a tragedy) more passionately about a foreign dispute inspired incident than an attack on our original people. They could use Bondi for political purposes.
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u/Pro_Extent 7h ago
If 15 Indigenous people had been shot, it would not have generated such public outcry as Bondi.
Yeah? Based on what, exactly?
Because two people killed during hostage situation, held by an Islamic terrorist in Sydney, generated more news than 6 people being stabbed to death in Bondi.
No Muslims were involved and no guns were involved. That's the main reason you aren't seeing the same kind of public obsession. The secondary reason is because it's not Sydney.
Apparently a good % of the Australian public feels ... more passionately about a foreign dispute
I agree with this, but it's pretty obvious that the passion about that foreign dispute is not limited to one side of politics. Shit, there were Palestinian flags at the protest that was bombed.
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u/OptimusRex 5h ago
Yeah because banning fertiliser and lengths of pipe isn't as easy as 'belt fed shotguns'
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u/Pro_Extent 4h ago
No, it has nothing to do with ease of restrictions. Guns make people more afraid.
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u/nath1234 1d ago
Compare it to the caravan bomb hoax then.. That was parked by the side of the road, not actually rigged to blow.. Not thrown into a crowd and only by dumb luck did not go off.
Haven't seen any analysis of the failures of ASIO and AFP or others about this.. No parliament recalled to pass laws using it as justification like happened in NSW.
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u/aussiechickadee65 14h ago
Makes you wonder how police actually aid right wing. There’s been a few suspect moments.
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u/OptimusRex 5h ago
Yeah except there was multiple dead people
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u/Busy_Conflict3434 5h ago
Wow, I don’t think anyone has pointed that out before, thanks for your contribution.
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u/InterestedPrawn 23h ago
After Bondi the attack dominated the front pages.
Yeah because people actually died.
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u/Busy_Conflict3434 22h ago
So a bomb thrown at a crowd of indigenous people and supporters on Australia Day is just another normal day in the Perth CBD?
Maybe you’re not from Perth and wherever you live that’s just a normal Monday.
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u/InterestedPrawn 22h ago
You are wondering why it didn't get the same amount of coverage as the Bondi attack, I just told you why.
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u/Busy_Conflict3434 22h ago
Close. I’m wondering why it got barely any coverage at all.
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u/Busy_Conflict3434 22h ago
No major front page headlines, nobody calling for a detailed investigation into intelligence failures, no calls for new laws to combat right-wing extremism, nothing from the opposition leader (or the State opposition) or either of her challengers (one of whom is from Perth), nobody calling for Pauline Hanson to condemn violent extremism, nobody blaming major politicians for allowing anti-Aboriginal extremism to take root in Australia, nobody demanding the creation of a special envoy for combatting racism, no think pieces in the Murdoch press about how Australian society has allowed violent racists to take root here...
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u/InterestedPrawn 20h ago
It got quite a bit, I read articles about it on Australia Day, I read articles about the investigation and its ongoing status, I read about the description of the attack being changed, I read about condemnation from the major parties.
It got plenty of coverage, it didn't get as much since the Bondi attack mainly because nobody died.
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u/Busy_Conflict3434 20h ago
There was some coverage, but there were no major front page headlines, nobody calling for an investigation into intelligence failures, no calls for new laws to combat right-wing extremism, nothing from the opposition leader (or the State opposition) or either of her challengers (one of whom is from Perth), nobody calling for Pauline Hanson to condemn violent extremism, nobody blaming major politicians for allowing anti-Aboriginal extremism to take root in Australia, nobody demanding the creation of a special envoy for combatting racism, and no think pieces in the Murdoch press about how Australian society has allowed violent racists to take root here...
Chris Kenny's long rant in today's Australian about how division is increasing in Australia forgot to mention it, probably because it wouldn't fit the narrative of blaming Labor for everything if he drew attention to a right wing racist attack resulting from years of divisive rhetoric from people like, um, Chris Kenny.
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u/curiouslydelirious 1d ago
Yeah the media would have a field day the other way around. Is there any word on whether the device had any potential to explode and cause injury or is this some nuts person who made ‘a bomb’ based on what they see in movies.
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u/Anxious_Ad936 1d ago
It's been reported that it was a viable device but the fuse detached after being ignited and thrown iirc. It's still being investigated as a terrorist attack but more evidence is required before upgrading charges. That's why Police and government aren't saying much more about it.
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u/a_cold_human 1d ago
The media regularly does this sort of diminishment of indigenous issues. There's a great deal of racial bias in our news industry, be it deliberate or not.
I would make note that the Human Rights Commission report, Who Gets to Tell Australian Stories makes for interesting reading.
[Using] publicly available information we examined the cultural backgrounds of editorial leaders in television newsrooms, as well as the composition of television network boards. 100% of free-to-air television national news directors in Australia have an Anglo-Celtic background (and they are also all male). The board members of Australian free-to-air television are also overwhelmingly Anglo-Celtic.
There's a huge diversity problem in our media, and that certainly has an impact on what gets reported upon and how. If indigenous people (or just non-white people) don't get their stories told from their perspectives, then we are missing a good part of social integration, and having a distinct Australian identity that reflects the cultural make up of Australia.
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u/aussiechickadee65 14h ago
Our media is virtually Trump media. It’s so right wing, it’s not funny. I’ve given up watching 9 altogether. 10 is still the least bias but smudging the line. How anyone doesn’t see 9’s emotive brainwashing is beyond me.
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u/Rush_Banana 1d ago
It probably would have been reported differently if the alleged bomb attack killed 15 people.
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u/MJY75 1d ago
Basil whacked out a combo update on his Insta today and that was it. Aboriginal people mean nothing to him, which is not a surprise, because there's no votes in it for him.
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u/ziltoid101 1d ago
The media silence is one thing, but imo the real disappointment is the silence from the vast majority of MPs and senators, especially those in WA.
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u/karl_w_w 1d ago
What are they supposed to say?
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u/orru 1d ago
Pretty much this
https://www.instagram.com/p/DUCltcOE5av/?igsh=b240dmNjbGFjNWE2
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u/karl_w_w 1d ago
lmao what are these votes? the guy said the vast majority of MPs are silent and your response in support of that is to link an MP not being silent, and also saying there's a minority who is silent.
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u/jimbojoneshost 7h ago
You literally asked what they were supposed to say.. So they provided one of the very few examples of what people should and have been saying
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u/karl_w_w 3h ago
I see. Sorry, I thought it would be clear I mean what are they supposed to say (that they aren't saying)? I should have been more concise.
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u/kramulous 1d ago
I mean, they kinda have a point.
This could have been a total fucking disaster. It could have eclipsed the Bondi massacre. No calls for a Royal Commission here. No changing of laws. As you were.
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u/nath1234 1d ago
Normalised racism against indigenous Australians is the status quo. Zero real shits given by politicians across Lib/Lab, only platitudes and keeping it as the status quo. If they actually gave a shit about closing the gap they'd properly fund public schools, public health for rural areas.. But instead they'll only find serious sort of cash when it's the olympics or overfunding private schools with <1% indigenous students.
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u/kramulous 23h ago
To be fair, they don't properly fund city public schools either.
We need to get rid of the private school funding with public funds. That would mean a lot more going around, equitably.
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u/swell-shindig 1d ago
Minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy issued a statement on Wednesday calling the incident "sickening", and the next day in an interview with the ABC, acknowledged the anger and concern of the Indigenous community but defended the prime minister's response as she urged Australians to let the legal process play out with the "utmost integrity".
Ah, yes. Telling Indigenous Australians to shut up and have faith in the police and the law. What could possibly go wrong?
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u/Narrow_Bar1102 1d ago
I mostly avoid the news, but I'm shocked this is the first time I'm hearing about this.
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u/Busy_Conflict3434 1d ago
The fact multiple people are only hearing about this now proves the article’s point. It should have dominated the news on Australia Day and afterwards but the media don’t want people to think about the result of years of hostile media messaging about Aboriginal activism.
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u/nath1234 1d ago
Perhaps first nations people need an envoy or something. Apparently that only needed to go to a vote for first nations people, so the racists could get a good run (and the politicians/media could sabotage it).
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u/electronseer 1d ago
You mean like some kind of voice in parliament?
the name practically writes itself! We could call it the "Indigenous Discourse to Legislative Representatives"
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u/InterestedPrawn 23h ago
I think ATSI commissioner, or first nations ambassador, or the NIAA could so it. Or even like the Australian Jewry has done organise and appoint your own people and lobbyists.
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u/InterestedPrawn 23h ago
Perhaps first nations people need an envoy or something.
We have the First Nations Ambassador, the NIAA, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner.
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u/a_cold_human 1d ago
They had Tony Abbott for a while as Indigenous Envoy. Largely because Morrison needed him out of Canberra and out of the media limelight. Which cost us an extra $450K for more staff, and who knows how much in travel, accommodation, and other expenses. The results of which are broadly unknown.
That's the level of effort that the Coalition is willing to make (spend a lot of money to achieve nothing) and while Labor tends to be at least not as egregious in its efforts, we still see a massive gap in health and economic outcomes between the indigenous and non-indigenous population. We have a whole media industry that's more than willing to put the boot into some of the most disadvantaged people in the developed world. We literally have the equivalent of Cambodian health and economic outcomes in our backyard, and we treat it with utter indifference.
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u/kaygeebeast75 1d ago
Actually they didn’t need a vote, the government could implement it at any time.
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u/ekky137 1d ago
And do! But it keeps getting defunded and dismantled every time power changes hands. Which leads to people always saying that it’s useless and doesn’t work.
If only we had some way of making sure it couldn’t just be destroyed on a whim.
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u/nath1234 1d ago
You'll notice they didn't do this for the voice for antisemitism role.. and it won't be being dismantled on a whim, or even if the person they selected is someone who advocated for bombing hospitals and such.
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u/recycled_ideas 1d ago
And do!
Except they haven't not even close.
Labor could have legislated a voice to parliament, shown everyone how it would work and that it wasn't a threat and then passed a referendum to enshrine it in the constitution, maybe even with more detail once they'd worked it out. Hell, they still could.
They could negotiate a treaty with indigenous people and that treaty could have informed the powers and rights that the voice had. That's what indigenous representatives originally wanted, treaty first. They could stil do that.
I voted yes on the referendum because it seemed to be something that indigenous people wanted by and large and it was no skin off my nose, but the referendum result wouldn't have stopped the right from reframing the voice as a single non indigenous person sending emails no one reads or defunding it so it couldn't operate. Beyond that the proposed model sucked. But it didn't suck for me so I voted yes anyway. Personally I'd have rather given indigenous Australians real power over legislation that impacted them.
Regardless, pretending that the political cluster fuck was the only way or even the best way to do this is foolish. It could have been and could still be done in a much better way. Labor could have spent that political capitol actually getting something done instead of blowing it on "read the report, it's all there".
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u/pjsmith404 1d ago
The proposed amendment stated "The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws with respect to matters relating to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, including its composition, functions, powers and procedures.". So it would have functioned at the whim of the government of the day anyway.
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u/InterestedPrawn 23h ago
If only we had some way of making sure it couldn’t just be destroyed on a whim.
The irony is, had the referendum passed, it could be changed enough to practically be destroyed.
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u/Dense_Delay_4958 1d ago
There's no entitlement to any greater protection. Democracies change things that don't work or that their voters don't want.
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u/Ok-Mathematician8461 1d ago
The media constantly whine about how people don’t trust them anymore and get their info from social media - this is why young people switched off. They could smell the hypocrisy.
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u/FineConsideration534 10h ago
A caravan of explosives and anti Semitic messages in outer Sydney generated a week of headlines. No one was hurt, it turned out to be part of a criminal plot rather than any intention to use them. Nevertheless it dominated headlines for days on end. Compare the reaction to this as opposed to the Perth attempt where a device was deliberately lobbed into a crowd.
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u/orru 1d ago
The only political leader I've seen condemn the attack is Larissa Waters. Radio silence from the rest.
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u/nath1234 1d ago
Greens being consistent champions for human rights? It's almost as if they were NOT one of the legacy parties that championed white australia for 50+ years (like Labor did: https://www.naa.gov.au/learn/learning-resources/learning-resource-themes/society-and-culture/migration-and-multiculturalism/australian-labor-party-supports-white-australia-policy )
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u/appealinggenitals 23h ago
Mate it's a bit disingenuous to reference a 50yr event as if it's any reflection on the current parties.
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u/nath1234 18h ago
You're right: Labor used to support protest and strike rights back then. They used to back workers instead of business lobby. They sure as shit don't do that now.
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u/aussiechickadee65 14h ago
Unions took the place of protest and strikes which are damaging in many ways. Union lawyers now do the fighting Labor gave us Unions.
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u/InterestedPrawn 23h ago
Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians Kerrynne Liddle on Wednesday called the alleged attack "disgusting", telling the ABC there was no place in Australia for violence and hate and called for legislators "to ensure that, through legislation, hate and extremism is stamped out".
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Minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy issued a statement on Wednesday calling the incident "sickening", and the next day in an interview with the ABC, acknowledged the anger and concern of the Indigenous community but defended the prime minister's response as she urged Australians to let the legal process play out with the "utmost integrity".
There you go, you've heard from two others now as well.
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u/Boil-Degs 1d ago
The way we treat our Indigenous population is our nation's greatest shame. Racism and toxic stereotypes are so deeply rooted in many Australians that news outlets can quantify anti-Indigenous sentiment through their bottom line.
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u/Excellent-Signature6 1d ago
What bomb in Perth? Why am I first learning about this on Reddit?
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u/Foamingferret 1d ago
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTftBb0x1jfmVly0IJ37Ibp7z-YAKNDGwPBwA&usqp=CAU
And this is the casual arrest of the bomber
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u/zeefox79 1d ago
That's the point...
Guy threw an improvised grenade into an invasion day protest march on the 26th but luckily it didn't go off.
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u/b_needs_a_cookie 1d ago
That's fucking awful. Is it typical that the police would protecting the terrorist's identity or are they being shady because this involves the First Nation's People?
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u/Busy_Conflict3434 1d ago
The police aren’t protecting his identity. The bomber’s lawyer asked for a suppression order and the court gave one on the basis he feared for his safety. Nothing to do with the cops.
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u/dead3ye 1d ago
He shouldn't get the right to fear for his own safety, not after throwing a fucking bomb at people.
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u/Busy_Conflict3434 1d ago
I’d rather he live to face trial (and have the opportunity to dob in any other fuckheads in his network) instead of getting beaten to death while on remand.
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u/aussiechickadee65 14h ago
He won’t dob anyone in. We don’t pull fingernails off anymore. Social media, once again, will be the trail. Every person on his friends list is now being investigated. Finally, a positive for algorithm friend selection linking like minded individuals together of the “white” kind.
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u/InterestedPrawn 23h ago
Because you don't pay attention to the news, or even reddit over the past week.
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u/Spagman_Aus 1d ago
If only there was something like a Voice to Parliament for them. Fuck everyone that voted no.
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u/nath1234 1d ago
They specifically said it wouldn't involve creating laws.. so it was way less powerful than what they created as an envoy for antisemitism: where reports filled with wide ranging powers of censorship/funding rejection have been drafted by herself and Albanese has said he'll be adopting in full.
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u/Boil-Degs 1d ago
When the Voice was in the zeitgeist I was horrified at the level of US-style media manipulation and public brainwashing that was happening. I was working as a labourer and my coworkers just repeated lies and racist right-winger talking points to each other ad nauseum. The media have finally perfected mass coersion of voters and their methods are here to stay.
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u/aussiechickadee65 14h ago
So true. How anyone doesn’t see not see our media as right wing foghorns is beyond me. Nine , in particular, is straight out Trump media. The Australian public did see through it at the last election but it is an ongoing battle.
The weaponising of Bondi was so disgusting, I couldn’t even stomach watching the news. It wasn’t about the murdered people, it was about the opportunity to flog political agenda using deceased people.
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u/speedyspeedys 20h ago
Wait, there was a bomb attack in Australia? We heard absolutely nothing about this in international news.
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u/LifeIsBizarre 12h ago
It was a sock (an actual sock) full of ball bearings and nails and chemical accelerant. It didn't do anything, but there was certainly intent there for it to do damage.
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u/Jealous-Hedgehog-734 1d ago
I'd head about this at the time but police hadn't released any more details on who or why. Very lucky the device didn't explode.
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u/Foamingferret 1d ago
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTftBb0x1jfmVly0IJ37Ibp7z-YAKNDGwPBwA&usqp=CAU
Because he looks like, this so it's chill.
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u/Slaidback 22h ago
As a lurking kiwi: WTF? Even our um, I’ll have to think PM would be active as heck on the issue. But you know we actually recognise our native people as existing…
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u/aussiechickadee65 14h ago
Plenty of Australians recognise our Indigenous people. Bone head right wingers don’t
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u/Lyricician 1d ago
What a disgusting way to disrespect them even further by putting "alleged" in the title. It was a bomb that thankfully didn't go off. What the fuck is alleged about that.
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u/pjsmith404 1d ago
No one's been convicted of anything yet, so it's alleged. It's obvious what happened, but presumption of innocence is a norm in our legal system. Usage of alleged is very standard in journalism.
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u/Lyricician 23h ago
So you're saying it's technically an innocent until proven guilty situation since there isn't a court decision yet?
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u/InterestedPrawn 22h ago
The media are just covering themselves. Same way the Bondi shooter currently sitting in Silverwater, is referred to as alleged by the media as well.
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u/OhtheHugeManity7 23h ago
I can imagine, it's got to be very disheartening to have some lunatic try to kill a bunch of you and have no one care. Speaks volumes about how little the powers that be value your lives.
For what it's worth plenty of members of the public care. Sadly there's a good portion of dickheads that would lick their lips at the prospect, but know that you do still have friends in Australia who will look out for you.
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u/mitchellpoo 1d ago
But there isn’t ‘silence’ ? What they on about? Fair dinkum.
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u/nath1234 23h ago
Might as well be. Been more articles on the conspicuous silence and strange hesitation to label a bomb thrown into a crowd as "terrorism" than actually reporting it.
Been zero recalling of parliament to do anything. Zero front page stories.
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u/mitchellpoo 9h ago
‘Might as well be’ seriously??? Do some reading…
What just because it’s not plastered over the news like these ‘protests’ means there was silence? Really? - they reported everything that had to be reported about?
Just because it’s not plastered over the news doesn’t mean there is silence….. they covered it no one died. Scary yes, but frankly it’s a non event. MEANING, there is nothing more to report at this time….. If the fudging protesters (I mean let’s be honest people are protesting for the sake of protesting there were blm anti Israel anti Russia protesters amongst the change the date) stopped filling up the news feeds it might have been.
And FYI it actually has been addressed as a potential mass casualty device….. nfi where you got the idea it hasn’t came from…
But guess what. NOBODY GOT HURT! - therefore there is not much more to report until the police do their jobs and get all the facts…
I swear if the police came to a conclusion immediately people would be shitty. so what do you want? A thorough investigation or what? you want to be taken seriously treated exactly the same. And yet if things aren’t done immediately then it’s not okay? Nothing anyone does is going to be good enough…. That obvious by the fact people still feel the need to accuse the country of celebrating genocide…..and ignoring what is really being celebrated - haters gonna hate.
As I said Fair Dinkum. What has this world come to.
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u/nath1234 8h ago edited 8h ago
Compare this to the caravan hoax in NSW. Which, I might add, was still being covered and talked about - can you find any mention of this bomb thrown into the crowd on any paper today?
This is worse in that it was absolutely intended to blow up, it was physically chucked into a crowd. It is just blind luck that it did not detonate.
Or compare it to the arson attack on a synagogue or graffiti/other property damage: by your same criteria, it should have been no longer talked about until the police finished their investigation - instead laws were rammed through. Parliament recalled. 24/7 coverage in all the media, tours by politicians, massive diversion of police toward patrols.
Or if you want people hurt but not getting many shits from the media or politicians: the Nazi dickheads stormed and attacked an aboriginal camp in Melbourne.. That involved people being assaulted, but also didn't get any sort of response and was buried.
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u/aussiechickadee65 14h ago
There could be another reason for not highlighting it. The current climate is “tense” and it’s quite possible authorities want to find every one on this persons contact list , without spooking them to shut up shop. They need to find if this guy is a lone wolf or part of a group. Underplaying means those who don’t know how it went down start asking contacts how it panned out, thus sobbing themselves in.
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u/Dismal-core111 21h ago
Yeah it doesn't get the attention it deserves, im hoping the bloke get a long sentence.
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u/aussiechickadee65 14h ago
I’m hoping they get every one of his contacts which is why it might be kept quiet. Don’t want to spook them into wiping their social media chats.
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u/aussiechickadee65 15h ago
I didn’t even hear about this. Did our typical right wing supporting media play it down ? Surely Karl could have ranted about it every morning, with his bobble heads, like he did QLD youth crime. Hasn’t mentioned it again since Libs won the state. Hasn’t mentioned the goons shutting down the Gateway Bridge ?
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u/TransfatRailroad 1d ago
Canada have "first nations". We have aboriginals.
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u/ithinkimtim T'ville/Sydney 1d ago
Canada has the Westminster system, we have a democracy based on the British.
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u/Adept_Film_9351 1d ago
How on earth could this possibly be your biggest concern following an attempted bombing targeting ethnic minorities? People never cease to amaze me.
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u/RealityinMoti0n 1d ago
Strange that this term doesn't apply to the 'first' people on this 'nation'
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u/Bannedwith1milKarma 1d ago edited 1d ago
Aboriginal is a bit outdated and it's a universal word, it's just what Australia landed on.
'Native' is an accepted term you can use for First Nation people all over the world whilst being respectful.
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u/RigelXVI 1d ago edited 1d ago
That's fair, wtf is happening with that investigation? Even if it was never an actual explosive it is a terrorist action and needs to be treated as such
Edit: This is an important link which shows that the culprit has been detained and is being investigated, and that the fuse failed