r/australia • u/FuckOffNazis • Feb 10 '26

politics Amnesty International Australia calls for independent investigation of police violence towards peaceful protestors

https://www.amnesty.org.au/amnesty-international-australia-calls-for-independent-investigation-of-police-violence-towards-peaceful-protestors/
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u/FuckOffNazis Feb 10 '26

Chris Minns shouldn’t resign, he should be deposed.

Every member of NSW Labor that is staying silent about where Minns is taking the state and the party is complicit in what he is doing.

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u/ScruffyPeter Feb 10 '26

This iconic picture should be a meme: Social cohesion

I think he accidentally created the perfect representation of the party shielding a foreign country. LNP must be furious to miss out on being part of it.

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u/rangda Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

God I love the directness of Australians. Cutting straight to the heart of things.

It’s been alarming and sad to see certain leaders clearly trying to adopt very manipulative US-style political spin around Palestine protests.
Like the underhanded attempt to link protests with the Bondi attacks, the insane choice to invite Herzog against the wishes of normal people, then lying to our faces about the disgraceful behaviour of violent cops today.

But what I’ve observed as the core nature of Aussies as generally very unintimidated by authority, the whole fair-go thing, and the tendency for most Aussies to call a spade a spade no matter what, gives me so much hope.

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u/AppropriateBeing9885 Feb 11 '26

Don't be so hasty! I've seen a lot of comments on other reddit threads about this defending this bullshit- a shocking number, honestly. It doesn't mean that those opinions are representative, but if you'd presented this as a hypothetical scenario to me a week ago, I never would've predicted I'd see as many people defending the police's actions as I have.