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LGBTQIA+ teens bashed and filmed in IS-inspired Sydney attacks (www.abc.net.au)

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[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone 5 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Shame this will be ignored like the attack on the Aboriginal rally in Perth.

Do our intelligence services do intelligence anymore? Or do they just spend their time lobbying to strip more of our rights and privacy

[–] eureka@aussie.zone 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

Shame this will be ignored

Ignored by who? Just from skimming the article:

Five teenagers have so far been convicted over the bashings.

Similar attacks have been reported in the ACT, Queensland and Western Australia, but police say many more incidents go unreported.

With a Victorian parliamentary inquiry into so-called Grindr attacks announced last week, there are now calls for a national response to anti-LGBTQIA+ hate crimes, as well as urgent measures to protect events like this weekend's Sydney Mardi Gras.

Less than three weeks after the assault on James, a 16-year-old boy stabbed Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel during a live-streamed church service in Wakeley. Nine days later, the Joint Counter-Terrorism Team — comprising NSW Police, the AFP and ASIO — carried out sweeping raids against a dozen teenagers, including the group who attacked James.

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Aside from a load of hot air being released what's actually being done to stop this from happening again?

[–] eureka@aussie.zone 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I say this out of curiosity, I'm not arguing:

What should be done to stop this, beyond arresting and charging known attackers? (Obviously in this context we're talking about government and police, not community efforts.)

[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone -1 points 16 hours ago

All the people who have been thumping their chests over Bondi to push their Zionist agenda

[–] Insekticus@aussie.zone 2 points 17 hours ago

More likely, they'll let these things slide and continue to fester until more people become anti-immigrants and screeching in the streets to send middle-easterners back to their ancestral countries.