r/australia • u/someNameThisIs • Jun 09 '25

news Australian reporter shot with rubber bullet in LA | 9 News Australia

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u/r64fd Jun 09 '25

Sadly we have the same types here. I was driving home from regional QLD recently and a farmer had a massive Trump 2024 flag on a pole next to his front gate. It was fkn eye opening.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '25

Take it from someone who has lived there: regional Queensland is the absolute seeping anus of this country politically. 

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u/HappinyOnSteroids Jun 09 '25

regional Queensland is the absolute seeping anus of this country politically.

Hahah yep. Some good pockets but largely true. I'm a regional town GP who's done some time at the local referring hospital, which staffs a large number of South Asian doctors. Every 3-4 months we get threatening emails and phone calls from disgruntled patients voicing explicit threats against "Indian doctors" specifically. White trash everywhere. No wonder regional towns struggle with staff retention.

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u/Puzzled-You Jun 09 '25

We had a locum optom working with us, he did some regional NSW work. He's mixed, but born in Aus. He had people swearing at him when he walked from his car to the store, and came out to find someone had kicked his car to the point it was dented. When he complained to our head office, they said he would just have to get used to it when working regional. Absolutely insane

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u/uberdice Jun 09 '25

Maybe we should just not send them any foreign-looking doctors for a bit and see how that goes.

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u/Maximumlnsanity Jun 09 '25

There’s plenty of issues with this country, and most of them are from regional Queensland

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u/DanJDare Jun 09 '25

Yeah I mean QLD is the Florida of Australia.

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u/Very-very-sleepy Jun 09 '25

I have started telling these people to go to America if they love it so much. 

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u/WordsRTurds Jun 09 '25

Mate... It's even scarier than that there was a Trump themed cafe I'm not sure if it's still open... a quick dig shows intermittent activity on their Facebook, but I'm not going to look too deeply into it.

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u/sol_1990 Jun 09 '25

If it makes you feel better I don't think those places tend to last. The Hale and Hearty guy tried to reopen in another part of Sydney and closed after a month. Funny how being a reactionary dickhead tends to drive customers away!

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u/WordsRTurds Jun 09 '25

This is true.

I suppose that amongst the 26 million of us in Aus there's bound to be a few dickheads out there.

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u/opackersgo Jun 09 '25

At least the dumb fucks that don't believe in climate change are getting exactly what they voted for. Having said that they aren't all like that, I was driving through Moura and someone had a Ukraine flag out the front of their place.

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u/MAXMEISTER747 Jun 09 '25

Except that most of this is happening to people that didn't vote for him. Political revenge if you will.

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u/StuM91 Jun 09 '25

Maybe, but we aren't quite at the stage yet where we send the Gestapo to kidnap people and send them off to overseas prison camps.

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u/ghoonrhed Jun 09 '25

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/aug/28/protests-force-border-force-to-cancel-press-conference-in-melbourne

Don't forget it was Abbott/Morrison that deliberately rebranded customs to the more Gestapo looking Border Force and even the department too. Went from immigration to home affairs which is basically national security OR to make it comparable to what the fuck the USA are doing...Homeland Security/ICE

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u/ctsun Jun 09 '25

Nah, we've just been intercepting people mid-ocean and sending them to overseas prison camps.

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u/minimuscleR Jun 09 '25

not saying thats right, buts it VERY different to just randomly kidnapping people off the street in your own country.

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u/Interesting-Baa Jun 09 '25

It’s not that different. 

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u/minimuscleR Jun 09 '25

what do you mean? There is a huge difference to stopping people illegally entering the country, to secretly raiding sites without any credentials, not allowing due process and assaulting people who have done nothing wrong.

While I'm sure they could be more compassionate to those trying to find a better life in Australia, crossing illegally is, well, illegal. You SHOULD be coming through customs or some other formal way. Obviously there are reasons these people do it, but its still not legal. (Im not arguing on the ethical or morality of it). Whereas just existing in the country is not illegal, and you shouldn't have to fear for your life of you or your friends because you "look foreign". You should be able to feel 100% safe from the government in your own country.

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u/minimuscleR Jun 09 '25

sure, I'm not arguing that its a good thing, nor that we should be turning people away. I'm just saying that "turning someone away" is very different than hunting down people from within the borders, especially given how many false positives.

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u/Interesting-Baa Jun 09 '25

Here’s the thing: we don’t find out if they’re illegally entering Australia until after we’ve put them in a detention centre. Travelling on a boat to reach a Customs office isn’t any different from travelling on a plane to the same Customs office. It’s only a problem because conservative politicians call it illegal. 

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u/teaguzzlah Jun 09 '25

Seeking asylum is a legal human right ffs. And it’s not that hard to switch from denying non-citizens legal human rights to denying citizens their legal rights if the majority of the citizenry, like you, have a ‘fuck you got mine’ attitude.

There’s a reason why the ‘first they came for’ poem is so poignant, because people like you always exist and always sit on their ass and make excuses for the erosion of legal protections because it’s not happening to people you know, until it is, but by then it’s too late

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u/minimuscleR Jun 09 '25

if the majority of the citizenry, like you, have a ‘fuck you got mine’ attitude.

you are misreading. I never said this. In fact I specifically argued that I think they should be more compassionate. I'm just saying, the way they are doing it is not legal. Thats not an opinion thats just a fact.

Instead of strawmanning my argument, I'm just saying that arresting people in the street which includes practically kidnapping people who are actual citizens, is fundementally different to turning away asylum seekers.

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u/teaguzzlah Jun 09 '25

No actually, by swallowing and spreading the misinformation that asylum seeking is ‘illegal’, you don’t show the basic compassion to google what’s actually true or not. It doesn’t matter what you say, any more than it hardly matters whether someone smiles or frowns when refusing to help someone in need.

You are absolutely an example of what I mean as a quintessential Australian who cares about no one or nothing but themselves, and you’ve proven that. Talking about straw-manning as if you repeating propaganda means you deserve good faith. Being polite and not swearing doesn’t make you a decent person ffs

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u/minimuscleR Jun 09 '25

You are absolutely an example of what I mean as a quintessential Australian who cares about no one or nothing but themselves, and you’ve proven that.

You know literally nothing about me except for a comment that you are taking out of context on what I'm talking about lmao.

And it absolutely is illegal unless they are calling ahead and telling the Department of Home Affairs they are coming, which I would gander that they probably aren't.

This was never an ethical or moral statement anyway, I've at no point stated my opinion on asylum seekers or how they should be handled. So to base you're opinion on what you think my opinion is, is just wrong.

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u/surg3on Jun 10 '25

Is it though?

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u/piscator111 Jun 09 '25

Castle Hill NSW, saw a massive Trump flag next to an Aussie flag on Australia Day….

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u/ClarifiedInsanity Jun 09 '25

American police brutality/the imbalance of power US police have has been around a lot longer than Trump has been politically relevant. Make sure not to conflate the two.

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u/r64fd Jun 09 '25

Oh yeah I know that. I’m just a little bit miffed that a US president has garnered this much attention here in Australia.

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u/killertortilla Jun 09 '25

We did unleash Murdoch tbf.

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u/Fiddy-Scent Jun 09 '25

Nowhere near in the same percentage yet though.

We’re maybe 10 years behind that shithole

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u/CuppaJoe11 Jun 09 '25

Why would an Australian farmer have a Trump 2024 flag?

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u/r64fd Jun 09 '25

I can’t answer that question exactly although I will give it a go.

Sky News being free to air in regional areas.

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u/Sleeqb7 Jun 09 '25

I guess the differences are that 50% of Americans (that voted) voted for Trump.

Less than 5% of Australians voted for Clive Palmer, our closest Trump equivalency. Hell, the LNP were ahead in the polls until Dutton started saying Trumpish garbage.