An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea."

https://lemmy.world/post/44131480

An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." - Lemmy.World

More info on the Queensland laws: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/05/queensland-pro-palestinian-phrase-ban-river-to-sea-laws-ntwnfb [https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/05/queensland-pro-palestinian-phrase-ban-river-to-sea-laws-ntwnfb]

Again, why does any country who is not Israel care at all about this? Does Australia have a military base there?

Exactly, half these people are bored with nothing better to do and should be working.

You can tell as they often are a collective with no common goal or objective other than ‘protest’. And it’s causing such division in our society with now a strong anti immigration movement cos people are getting sick of it.

And in the end everyone loses.

If you can get arrested and jailed for wearing a shirt saying “from the river to the sea”, that means your government is suppressing your free speech in service to the genocidal regime of a different country. Even if you don’t care about the genocide, the subversion of your democracy by a foreign power is something that any responsible citizen should be fighting against.

Again so quick to fire you assume that I disagree with you.

Something to consider though, we do have free speech in this country and its likely and this case will get thrown out.

But also tell me how wearing a t shirt constructively convinces others to share our point of view? Quite the contrary I imagine others who don’t share the same opinion will go ‘avoid this person before they shout at me for having a different point of view’

And do you know a better way to make a movement in this country than if everyone is able to convince someone else to share (or perhaps just lean closer to) a common opinion/belief. So if instead of pissing off alternative points of view, have an open chat, you might change ppls minds. 1 million voices is better than 100,000 voices, and 25 million voices is better than 1 million. And an open chat is not wearing a tshirt.

But first people need to actually talk and listen to each other instead of shouting and hating each other.

Let’s have a quiet conversation about bombing your family with white phosphorus. You can start :)

Mate I’m super sorry this happened to you. No one deserves it and it shouldn’t happen period.

My point however is the name calling as you did in the other comments on my posts and shouting at me, is not the constructive discussion that will start a movement against this. People will just tune out or worse yet actively oppose you. You will ostracise others and cement thier point of view. Which will disrupt the ability to build a movement against these actions.