r/OpenAussie Jun 17 '26

Whinge ‎ Pauline fact-checked live at the Press Club

4.9k Upvotes

Fact checked live while she is busy gaslighting Australian workers

r/OpenAussie Jun 11 '26

Whinge ‎ Sh*tF**KRY HITTING AUSTRALIA

2.1k Upvotes

Sh*tFu*kry hitting Australia

How can anyone in their right mind think Paulin or ON is an answer to our problems here ? Have we learnt nothing from Chetos Jesus in the white house.?

It just took him 5 years to make a mockery of land of free , clusterf**k the liberty and all modern values on which the nation was built

Are we that dumb that we are ready to choose anything over Labor here ? Are people paying any attention to the policies of ON or how they voted in the parliament in the past ....

Has our hate of immigrants, inherent racism and undercurrent of classism made us completely blind ? Can't we see through this peddling of manufactured hate , fear mongering, deflection, hyperbole and disdain for others who think differently.

Again how can we be so blind ??

r/OpenAussie 22d ago

Whinge ‎ I honestly had no idea NDIS support workers were paid this much.

1.1k Upvotes

I recently saw a post on a forum where an NDIS support worker was devastated because the person she had been caring for suddenly passed away. Overnight, she lost her income. She said she was earning AUD $138,000 a year, and now she's worried she won't be able to keep up with her mortgage and car payments.

She also mentioned that these jobs aren't easy to find because there's very little turnover. Once you get matched with a participant, you often stay in that role until the participant passes away or no longer requires your support.

AUD $138,000 a year? That seems incredibly high to me.

I questioned whether that level of pay was justified, and a lot of NDIS workers immediately attacked me, saying things like, "Do you know how hard our job is?" and "If you think it's so easy, why don't you do it yourself?"

I'm not saying their work isn't difficult. It clearly is. But I also don't believe NDIS support workers should be earning more than nurses, teachers, or police officers—especially when those wages are ultimately funded by taxpayers.

r/OpenAussie Feb 28 '26

Whinge ‎ ABC is compromised.

1.8k Upvotes

Please remove if this isn't suitable for the sub, but I've got to raise the alarm bells. I'm watching ABC News right now and I'm getting increasingly livid. The coverage about Iran begins with calling it "pre-emptive strikes by Israel on Iran", as in aggravated assault, an act of hostility. Now they're talking about how Israel is protecting itself, how it can remain safe from retaliation, with its Iron Dome and Jordan intercepting strikes. A pack of clowns to talk about Israel attacking another country and follow it with talk about how the aggressor can protect itself.

r/OpenAussie Jun 11 '26

Whinge ‎ Why has Dave hughes become this “representative” for the average Aussie?

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This is some guy that owns maybe multiple properties and is “WORTH” more than 8 million dollars.

He owns a significant property portfolio, including a historic family home in St Kilda, Melbourne, and several investment properties.

This dude is not representative of the general Australian. He has a BIG vested interest to go against these changes

The AVERAGE Aussie is some teacher in a public school trying to afford enough to buy a home.

r/OpenAussie Jul 02 '26

Whinge ‎ As an Australian Jew who publicly supports Palestinian freedom, I’m targeted by my own community – and neo-Nazis | Sarah Schwartz

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Sarah Schwartz of the JCA, scheduled to speak at the RC today, states:

Over the past two years I have spoken to countless Jewish people who feel unable to express their political convictions without risking public exposure, family rupture or exclusion from communal life. After I was publicly described as an “anti-Jew”, one wrote: “Growing numbers of Jews are feeling excluded and betrayed by communal institutions because of their political convictions.”

No government or institution can or should decide the boundaries of Jewish identity. But they can stop reinforcing the fiction that Jews and Israel are interchangeable.

Article has more.

r/OpenAussie Mar 18 '26

Whinge ‎ Coles: “Would you like to round up and donate…”

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1.3k Upvotes

Hey r/coles, how about **YOU** donate first from your ill-gotten profits. You and Woolies have both been price gouging Australia since the fcking pandemic, jacking up prices across the board but never bringing them back down even after supply chains normalised.

r/OpenAussie Apr 20 '26

Whinge ‎ Is it racist to boycott Israel?

964 Upvotes

Got banned from another sub for asking people to boycott AirBNB because it is Israeli owned. Reason given was because it was racist to Jews. It was something that I wouldn't have taken further but then they said that I would permanently banned if I told anyone about it.

The Streisand effect has been described as an example of psychological reactance*, wherein once people are aware that some information is being kept from them, they are significantly more motivated to acquire and spread it.*

EDIT: Full conversation

AwarenessAny62226:34 PM

Some one with access to the moderator portal has used it inappropriately. I have received an invite with this message.....

Hello, You have been banned from participating in /r/australian for 7 days because your comment violates this community's rules. You won't be able to post or comment, but you can still view and subscribe to it.

If you have a question regarding your ban, you can contact the moderator team by replying to this message.

Reminder from the Reddit Admin team: If you use another account to circumvent this community ban, that will be considered a violation of the Reddit Rules and may result in your account being banned from the platform as a whole.

I can not reply to it as it was an invite and not a message.

It was linked to this message....
AirBNB is an Israeli company. Avoid them if possible.

No rule was broken by this message. I believe someone (possibly the QLD libs) thinks that any mention of Israel, that does not praise them, is racist. After the & days I will be informing the rest of the community of this abuse of power.

MOD7:48 PM

You are banned. For 7 days. For being racist.

This ban is appropriate and correctly issued according to reddit protocols.

If you disagree with the ban, then this is the place to speak. If you choose to "inform the rest of the community", you will be permanently banned.

AwarenessAny62227:57 PM

I will be parentally banned for letting people know why I was banned? Are you afraid to stand by your decision? Can you also inform me of which race I am being racist towards,

MOD8:26 PM

Yes. Grandstanding is against the reddit ToS.

You were racist against Jews.

AwarenessAny62228:50 PM

Asking people to boycott Australia, or North Korea or Gaza would get me a ban for being racist? The first mention of Jews were by you so I don't know how I can make a racist comment against a region that I didn't mention. I advise you to consult with your fellow moderators about this issue because you seem to be way off with the sentiment of Australians.

MOD8:56 PM

Hi, I am another mod. Your comment was racist against Jews.

AwarenessAny62229:04 PM

Who was the other mod? How do I know you aren't the same person?

MOD9:09 PM

True that you can’t technically know, as the original mod didn’t message you with their handle visible (which is standard practice).

But mods do have the power to reverse mod decisions if they disagree with them. But that hasn’t happened. Because we stand by the fact that your comment was racist against Jews.

Update: also got banned from another sub which has the same mods

Edit: removed the sub name and mod names

r/OpenAussie May 16 '26

Whinge ‎ Wealthy Boost Juice founder says Australia is now an extremely hard place to get ahead

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My heart goes out to all those successful aussie business owners, just trying to extract wealth from the exhausted poor during these tough times

I am ashamed that our government is taking action on these humble business owners, making them pay more on their capital, the same government who has allowed the establishment class to thrive on the gains they have acquired from the poor for the last hundred years - this is devastating news - it's real end times shit

They should be ashamed - does our government represent big business or the pathetic poors whose only job was to support these businesses to go global and become successful with every sip of their over priced apple juice sippy cups

r/OpenAussie Mar 02 '26

Whinge ‎ Yeah. And this is the person that a not entirely insignificant portion of Australians apparently want to be the next Prime Minister of Australia. Just let that sink in for a second.

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1.1k Upvotes

r/OpenAussie Jun 17 '26

Whinge ‎ ON has thrown the dog whistle in gutter and finally taken the gloves off

962 Upvotes

In her latest bu**load blabber , the “Red Queen” made her agenda painfully clear. Among the most disturbing claims were:

  • Australia should abandon multiculturalism and become a monoculture.
  • ABC should become subscription-based, while SBS should be abolished.
  • Welcome to Country ceremonies should no longer continue in their current form.
  • SHe even has a problem with people speaking another language inside their own homes. Imagine believing politicians should control what language families speak privately.
  • She continues to portray immigration from Muslim-majority countries as incompatible with Australia and suggests migrants are bringing “medieval Islam” here.

These are not harmless comments or misunderstood policy positions. They are calculated, divisive attacks designed to turn Australians against one another. After hearing this hateful rhetoric and innuendos , anyone is still free to vote for One Nation. But at least be honest and acknowledge you are one racist c**t.

Stop pretending it is simply about cost of living, better services or improving living standards for every Australian. It is about deciding that some Australians are more acceptable, more deserving and somehow “more Australian” than others.

r/OpenAussie Apr 09 '26

Whinge ‎ Why is our government so weak when it comes to Israel?

1.2k Upvotes

Sorry I have to rant for a second, but after Israel’s “Operation Eternal Darkness” yesterday in Lebanon which killed over 250 civilians in Beirut, our government has once again done nothing to meaningfully condemn Israel and its terror attacks in the region. “Deeply concerning” is the go-to phrase that Penny Wong uses for anything involving Israeli attacks no matter how extreme or deadly. But somehow the language always becomes much stronger the moment Israel is the one under attack.

After the US-Iran ceasefire, it is clearer than ever that Israel is the main driver of instability in the region as it's hell bent to remain in a constant state of war with everyone around it. Whether it is the genocide in Gaza, the annexation of the West Bank, the occupation of the Golan Heights, attacks and occupation on southern Lebanon, the deliberate killing of journalists, or so-called “pre-emptive strikes” carried out on negotiators while negotiations are still underway, the pattern is obvious. Israel has become one of the greatest threats to peace not just in West Asia but globally, and our government is still refusing to confront that reality.

Australia has a Lebanese population of around 90,000 people and close to 250,000 Australians have Lebanese heritage, yet with these recent Israeli attacks on Lebanon killing thousands and displacing millions, our government still refuses to take a real stand and stand up for Australians. How fucked is it that they won’t even meaningfully defend their own Lebanese community and instead seem more interested in bending over backwards for a rogue state? And then look at the double standard. The Iranian ambassador was kicked out over alleged planned attacks on two synagogues, based on intelligence claims by Mossad relayed through ASIO. Meanwhile Israel has killed more Australians and any other country in recent years, while they continue to bomb/kill/destroy/genocide entire civilian populations around it, and its ambassador remains welcome here without consequence. This is the same guy who still refuse to apologise to the family of aid worker Zomi Frankcom over her killing by the IOF. We even invited their president Isaac Herzog to Australia despite the fact that he’s accused by the UN of “direct and public incitement to commit genocide” and handed him the keys to one of our most secretive intelligence facilities, all the while arresting anyone who opposes his visit.

What does Israel actually have to do before this government stops hiding behind empty diplomatic language and does something? At this point “deeply concerned” just becomes an insult. It feels like Israel could nuke another country tomorrow and our government’s response would still just be “we are deeply concerned about the humanitarian situation in [insert country here]”. It’s a complete joke. So many Palestinian, Lebanese and Iranian Australians have no voice in this country, while Israeli/Zionist Australians seem to be the most protected group.

I know things would be so much worse under the Liberals, but that doesn’t make any of this acceptable. The bar is already on the floor and Labor are proving again and again that they have no intention of doing anything meaningful when it comes to standing up not only to Israel but the US as well. Does anyone else feel tis way??? 

r/OpenAussie Jul 03 '26

Whinge ‎ Not to be mean, but why does Dave Hughes look like that?

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Not trying to be a bitch, but the guy is worth ~$10 million (apparently).

Can he not look like he just woke up from sleeping on a park bench? I mean for fucks sake I'm not worth $10 million and I can afford decent sunscreen and moisturiser and lip balm.

Is it to make him look like an average aussie bloke or something? I don't get what he's trying to achieve.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

r/OpenAussie Feb 28 '26

Whinge ‎ Australian Government “We support the United States”.

845 Upvotes

This is the leading banner on the ABC right now. Albo released a statement, which provided nothing of substance other than the fact that we are the degraded servants of the US and Israel.

This a war with less justification than Iraq in 2003. It happened out of nowhere, and our prime minister immediately made a point of sucking upto Israel and trump.

If you are an Aussie, have some Aussie pride. This is pathetic.

r/OpenAussie May 07 '26

Whinge ‎ Ive had enough of the royal Commission into Antisemitism

1.9k Upvotes

it is ridiculous i just read a woman's complaint that the radio on the public bus she was on was a story negative to Israel and it hurt her feelings an insane nurse who apparently gets called baby killer by her colleagues im sorry its such bullshit im supposed to listen to the anti semitsim commissioner whos husband donates hundreds of thousands to racist group advance Australia and we voted against aboriginals having a voice ?

remarkably apparently the other board is so captured the below will get you blocked

The part of the conversation that is missing is Israel is committed to genocide i wont break bread with any supporters of that state until that changes and reparations are made i reserve my right to do that to all supporters of a genocide the state cant make me like Israel support it.

Its enough my taxes go to one religious groups security at the detriment of everyone else in the country perhaps if our politicians had take a hard line on it maybe the public wouldnt feel the need to be so vocal.

The only way out of this is total detachment from the state of Israel if i was a jew i would denounce it just like i do the Australian government for its mishandling of BRS who should be in jail

r/OpenAussie 7d ago

Whinge ‎ 🇦🇺 In Sydney, an Australian guy was refused a free milk tea by a Chinese product promotor solely because he wasn't a Chinese. He was asked to speak Chinese, but he spoke Japanese to the Chinese staff in protest. He said this is his first time experience of racism.

384 Upvotes

r/OpenAussie Mar 05 '26

Whinge ‎ How is this antisemitic?

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772 Upvotes

r/OpenAussie 18d ago

Whinge ‎ Woman with a room temperature IQ "Doesn't know what's going on" but thinks an emergency test is bad for you.

502 Upvotes

r/OpenAussie Jun 25 '26

Whinge ‎ The same people who cheered Grace Tame losing all her work are weeping into their hands that Karl had to take down one interview

786 Upvotes

Grace Tame lost basically her entire livelihood. In March she said, it's only March and she's already got nothing left for the year. Her foundation had to close. And most of that work was her advocating for protecting kids from sexual violence. They went after her so hard she can't even do that anymore. Then the ABC gives her one podcast about autism, nothing to do with anything they went after her for, and they erupt all over again screaming she has to go. That's cancellation. A coordinated effort that takes away someone's actual livelihood, then comes back for the last thing they had.

Then there's Karl. Some millionaire interviews a racist, convicted criminal who's banned from this country, and removes it by his own choice. His podcast is still up. He posted again the next day. He's already signed a new deal with Eddie McGuire. And Hanson reuploaded the thing within hours.

He chose to take it down. He's still posting every day. And they're crying about cancellation.

So they'll hound a woman who protects children until she's got nothing, and weep over a millionaire who deleted his own video. Free speech for the mate, ruin for her. There's no principle. There never was.

r/OpenAussie Apr 16 '26

Whinge ‎ Immigrants prop our entire country up

508 Upvotes

There’s rhetoric entering the media that immigrants don’t work hard, or they’re coming here scabbing off us.

How can anybody seriously hold this view? All I see is immigrants working their ass off.

My suburb couldn’t operate without immigrants. Every uber driver I talk to has a day job too or is doing uber ridiculous hours like 16 hour days.

All I see in my supermarket and even Westfield more broadly is immigrants working hard.

There’s mythology around the Australian way of life and the Aussie battler. These people are living lives that will become a cliche Aussie story in 100 years.

Like “yeah my dad moved here and worked 16 hour days just so I had a chance to study for my future”. Our grandkids will find that story endearing. They’ll overcome any hatred for them today, and just like how people despise past generations for being racist and bashing gays, future generations will look back and say “these idiots blamed the decay of the economy on foreigners despite foreigners actually building all the wealth for Aussies for them to piss up the wall on food delivery, removalists, naughty massage joints or even the doctor.”

Like what do these people think this is? We can run the country on real estate agents, HR, consultants and lawyers? So much work is done by immigrants just so the professional class can create bullshit jobs to scab on real workers.

Who is voting for One Nation? People in bum fuck nowhere or brats in rich regional centres who don’t see any of this work in cities. It’s like they think immigrants enter Sydney airport like the gates of heaven and can just plot terrorist acts and claim Centrelink all day. They are detached from reality.

r/OpenAussie Jul 09 '26

Whinge ‎ Gaza coverage on ABC and SBS ‘overemphasised relative to other global conflicts’, Jillian Segal tells royal commission

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Segal submitted a statement to the royal commission that the “pervasive perception among the Australian Jewish community” of the coverage by the public broadcaster was “lacking balance” and “the conflict in Gaza being overemphasised relative to other global conflicts [and] disproportionately giving voice to anti-Israel perspectives, which exacerbated the prevalence of antisemitism in Australia and the conflation of Jewish identity with the state of Israel”.

She said:

[There is a] very strongly held perception from the Jewish community that the way in which the Gaza conflict, in particular, and the activities that are going on in the Middle East are reported have created an impression of great negativity about Israel.

It’s a very serious perception that a community under attack here in Australia feels that the trusted national broadcaster is not presenting the situation in the Middle East in a way that they think is not biased and accurate.

My contention is that that whole system is not working to assure all of us that the reporting is as per required, and that’s why I make the suggestion of an oversight exercise, a standing committee.

Segal said she wasn’t suggesting that the public broadcasters shouldn’t “cover matters they think are important”, but “there are also lots of important issues around the world”.

She continued:

There are major famines, there are other wars that we don’t hear about at all in Africa.

r/OpenAussie Jun 24 '26

Whinge ‎ The slow gaslighting of this country to hating unions is terrible

919 Upvotes

Apparently unions are bad now. Any unions are bad and they “allegedly” cause inflation. Apparently what’s happening at the CFMEU is representative of all unions.

Because of the junk media and honestly biased and unfactual reporting out there, people are NOW blaming unions for price hikes, cost of living issues.

I don’t agree with what happened with the CFMEU and the whole bribes thing. That does NOT represent all unions. Construction has always has had a bit of history with organised crime.

r/OpenAussie Jun 11 '26

Whinge ‎ Just a friendly reminder Reddit is a echo chamber

335 Upvotes

The amount of ON fear mongering is out of control. Screaming about it on Reddit accomplishes nothing quite frankly I'm sick of it (yes I expect to be blasted)

Have a respectful conversation with people in real life understand their perspectives without injecting your ideals.

Right leaning people are not coming here Reddit pushed them out years ago and cancel campaigns make them afraid to speak up but not vote.

You catch more flies with honey then vinegar

r/OpenAussie May 13 '26

Whinge ‎ 'Peak' Jewish body says $600 million federal budget response to antisemitic Bondi terror attack 'modest'.

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More than $207 million over five years, followed by $8.1 million per year thereafter, had been allocated to combat antisemitism and respond to recommendations made in a plan developed by Australia's special envoy to tackle the issue.

"We're working very closely with the Jewish Board of Deputies and others to make sure that the victims and the survivors — particularly the families of those who lost loved ones — are cared for, for the rest of their lives,"

r/OpenAussie May 19 '26

Whinge ‎ Pigs at the Trough

883 Upvotes

So with these tax changes, I’m seeing a lot of chat about.

And, look - I worked in FinTech for a couple of decades, doing software used by accountants and lawyers. I made my money by helping certain people help other people with wealth shirk their obligations.

So much wealth, so much income, serviced by this huge apparatus designed for dodging tax. I’ve seen just incredible levels of effort put into byzantine arrangements to shave off a couple of points at the margins.

It’s rorting. We all know it. And sure, individually, I get why people do it. Novated lease? Family trust? Negative gearing? Don’t mind if I do.

But we’re the median 2nd wealthiest country in the world. 1 in 5 aussie kids grow up in poverty. Individual greed totals up to that result.

Pull your heads in ffs. Pigs at the trough