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The detail is "where do they park?" The answer is they don't. (aussie.zone)

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Shared on Facebook with the caption "Doing absolutely no favours to their international reputation, Americans have swarmed social media posts of Taylor Swift’s Melbourne concerts confused by a very obvious detail. Can you spot it?"

It's an article from the Murdoch right-wing paper "The Australian", so I won't link the original source.

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Aerial photo of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, surrounded to its North and East by tree-filled parks, to the West by a warm-up pitch, and to the South by a train line with two pedestrian overpasses over it. Underneath this photo is the article title "The MCG show detail that has American Swifties baffled" and byline "by Sam McPhee".

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[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 47 points 9 months ago

Acknowledgements of Country are pretty standard these days. Even quite conservative institutions do them regularly.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 33 points 9 months ago

I'm trying to imagine a large American company doing this... Would be pretty radical in comparison

[-] Tvkan@feddit.de 34 points 9 months ago

I mean they're still not giving it back, right? It's an important gesture, but it also doesn't really change anything.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 14 points 9 months ago

Also very true of course.

[-] solomon42069@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

Actually, it upsets some people who think it's woke to acknowledge inconvenient truths so it's worth it for that side of things too!

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