A similar incident occurring during an ANZAC day ceremony last year in Naarm/Melbourne last year. At the time, there was a similar round of tut-tutting from politicians. Prime Minister #AnthonyAlbanese said at the time that he hoped those responsible would face "the full force of the law".

They didn't.

And this year, despite the newly passed hate speech laws, the racist organisers expanded their operations, encouraging groups to boo Aboriginal elders across the continent.

This was a pre-meditated campaign of racial hatred during one of the most high-profile events in the national calendar. If you take the claims of governments who have recently enacted hate speech laws serious, then you'd expect that if there ever was an occasion for the use of those laws, it would be this. Those who rammed these laws through told us that this was a matter of such supreme urgency that many of the usual steps of legislative review were going to be skipped or abridged. But their response today? Crickets.

The hate speech laws were never what they were claimed to be. They were themselves racist from the start, an attempt to suppress pro-Palestinian speech that has been highlighting the complicity of the Australian government in Israel's ongoing #GazaGenocide.
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@3TomatoesShort

Continuous positivity can cover up so much
And change how physical reality is seen / interpreted / understood.

It's effective in keeping people in consumer mode.

And just so many are experts at staying In consumer mode already.

Right now I think that that's Anthony Albanese's implicit promise to Australian voters, "I'll make it so you can stay In consumer mode."
#AnthonyAlbanese #AusPol #KAC #KeepAustraliaConsuming