Australia

4832 readers

193 users here now

A place to discuss Australia and important Australian issues.

Before you post:

If you're posting anything related to:

The Environment, post it to Aussie Environment
Politics, post it to Australian Politics
World News/Events, post it to World News
A question to Australians (from outside) post it to Ask an Australian

If you're posting Australian News (not opinion or discussion pieces) post it to Australian News

Rules

This community is run under the rules of aussie.zone. In addition to those rules:

When posting news articles use the source headline and place your commentary in a separate comment

Banner Photo

Congratulations to @Tau@aussie.zone who had the most upvoted submission to our banner photo competition

Recommended and Related Communities

Be sure to check out and subscribe to our related communities on aussie.zone:

Plus other communities for sport and major cities.

https://aussie.zone/communities

Moderation

Since Kbin doesn't show Lemmy Moderators, I'll list them here. Also note that Kbin does not distinguish moderator comments.

Additionally, we have our instance admins: @lodion@aussie.zone and @Nath@aussie.zone

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

lodion@aussie.zone

bestusername@aussie.zone

eatham@aussie.zone

Nath@aussie.zone

'It was agony': Grandparents injured in Sydney anti-Herzog protest (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 19 hours ago by zero_gravitas@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

5 comments fedilink hide all child comments

In short:

Sydney grandmother Jann Alhafny said her back was broken after she was pushed to the ground by a riot squad officer.

Ian Payne was also injured after attending the protest against Israeli President Isaac Herzog's visit to Australia.

A police officer was allegedly bitten by a protester, and treated by paramedics on Monday night.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 4 points 17 hours ago

I can’t remember who said it, because ABC radio had a bit of a revolving door of right-wing/Jewish representatives on this morning. When asked about police brutality against protesters the response was along the lines of “police took action against violent protestors” (and I’m super paraphrasing here because I can’t remember the wording) “and calling for the death of all Jews”.

I’m sure not everyone was peaceful but the 2 videos I’ve seen so far were essentially people protesting by just standing around and then having the shit kicked out of them by police. Hell of a stretch to reach the previous statement with the same person blanketing all injured protesters as “radicals” and “violent left” etc.

Feels like more and more of the narrative twisting that has become an ever increasing problem worldwide these days.