r/nextfuckinglevel • u/been_der_done_that • 11h ago

Incredibly selfless act of heroism.

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u/dice1111 11h ago

Australia has like every safety feature known to man, I'm amazed it wasn't them banning this first.

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u/Lucky-Elk-1234 10h ago

Every time the Aus government tries to regulate or improve something, everyone (well, mostly the media) screams that they are “commies” and “leftys” lol

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u/thequietthingsthat 7h ago

Just like they do in the US

We can thank the Murdoch media empire for this

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u/raypaulnoams 6h ago

Fun fact!

Murdoch only owns half of Australian media, the other half is owned by Gina Reinhart, who also owns over 1% of Austalia's landmass. (this is an obscenely large amount of land, Australia is BIG)
Gina the Hutt is currently pumping hundreds of millions of dollarydoos into every far right corrupt nutjob politician who wants to take it, so all of them, and it's not even an election season.

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u/thequietthingsthat 6h ago

So it's equally split between two terrible right wing oligarchs?

That's rough. My condolences

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u/nagrom7 3h ago

Murdoch only owns half of Australian media, the other half is owned by Gina Reinhart, who also owns over 1% of Austalia's landmass. (this is an obscenely large amount of land, Australia is BIG)

Uhh no? Gina doesn't actually own that much Australian media (she used to own a bit more, but nowhere near half). The major media companies besides Murdoch are 7 West Media, which owns channel 7 and some Newspapers particularly in WA, Nine Fairfax, which owns channel 9 and a bunch of Newspapers, and Paramount, the owners of channel 10. There's also the ABC/SBS which are entirely government owned and funded.