By Soaliha Iqbal
We've got the latest episode of Only Fran which examines Queensland's hate speech laws, one year in. The results are in. Hint: not good.
In news this week: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese held the first national address in six years this week, only to tell us that Australia is not an active participant in the happenings overseas (very debatable) and fuel is expensive. AKA things we already know and that add absolutely nothing to the conversation other than having us scratching our heads as to what exactly 'the Australian way' means.
Petrol prices continue to be treated as more offensive than actual genocide and ethnic cleansing that is now extending to Lebanon, and the Israeli ambassador made extremely heinous and factually devoid comments that went mostly unchallenged at the National Press Club. So, all in all, a pretty frustrating news week if you ask me — and that’s without accounting for the below stories, which deserve far more coverage than they got.
Second young Aboriginal man dies in custody in Darwin in less than one week, National Indigenous Times
Two young Aboriginal men — both aged in their mid-twenties — died in custody in Darwin within just days of each other, and at the time I’m writing this, the only non-Indigenous media to cover their deaths was the ABC.
The first man was only 25 years old. He was arrested by police “without incident” and placed in the back of a police car where cops later observed him to have “laboured breathing”. They say they performed CPR on him before paramedics arrived but he died in hospital. He is yet to be formally identified.
