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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by hanrahan@slrpnk.net to c/australia@aussie.zone

A 24-year-old man who hit two Aboriginal pedestrians with his car and sped away, later bragging to his friends he'd run down an "oxygen thief", has been spared actual jail time

The court heard Danby sent a series of "disgusting" text messages to his friends in the hours after the crash, in which he labelled the crash victims as "dogs" and "n***ers".

No jail ? Lucky he didn't run Charke Kirk down I guess.

#EDIT: an update for those interested#

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-18/family-of-man-killed-in-darwin-hit-and-run-speak-out/105787700

The family of an Aboriginal man run down and killed by a hit-and-run driver in Darwin last year have voiced their "disgust and dismay" at the lack of a prison sentence for the offender.

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[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Lucky he didn’t run Charke Kirk down

I was just thinking in another thread, how easy it would have been to kill Kirk with a car and just get away with it. Because I don't agree with your comment here. Using a car is the best way to get away with murder. You have to be extremely unlucky to get any significant penalty when you kill someone with your car. Just ask the killers of Michael Hall, Carolyn Lister, Philip Pawsey, Richard Pollett, Richard Burden, and countless others around the country. Most of those were never charged. The one that was charged was never convicted. And our government spends more effort removing memorials than it does on actually addressing the problem.

[-] kuribo@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Much simpler than mushrooms.

[-] DreamAccountant@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

Your nazis don't think it's a problem, they think it's a perk.

Deal with your nazi problem, Australia.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Not sure you understand the context here. This is complaining about motornormativity and how people can get away with murder if they do it with a car. It's got nothing to do with nazis.

[-] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

We have a racism problem, not a nazi problem

We have a car culture problem, not a nazi problem

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 0 points 2 weeks ago

Which memorials has Albo been removing?

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Not a federal thing. I was specifically thinking of the Brisbane City Council local government which was repeatedly removing "white ghost" memorials to Philip Pawsey...until the memorialists put a white ghost bike on a trailer parked in the bike lane (which is a legal place to park a car here...), which because it's legally parked on the road, it would be illegal for them to remove. It ended up highlighting the irony of their failure to build proper infrastructure (i.e., separated bike paths where a car can't park and thereby endanger cyclists) far more than a normal memorial would have.

[-] Almacca@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

He only showed 'remorse' when he realised he was facing gaol time. At that point, he's only showing remorse for himself. The correct time to show remorse is immediately after it happened by stopping and rendering aid/calling emergency services. He might have even not been penalised at all if the pedestrians had actually stepped out in front of him without warning or time for him to avoid them. This whole judgement is completely fucked up.

[-] DreamAccountant@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

Australia still treats its native population horribly. Nazi style horribly. Every single piece of news about the aborigines has been bad for decades, with little or no social assistance in any way.

When you accuse a human being of being an 'oxygen theif' at their trial, nazis are prevalent in society.

Fuck you, Australia.

[-] Nath@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Australia still treats its native population horribly.

Fair. Though this has been steadily improving and continues to improve.

Nazi style horribly.

No. While this was once true, it has not been true for about a century. Even the scandalous Stolen Generations, which was effectively an attempt at cultural genocide, was approached with the intent of improving the lives of Aboriginal peoples. The worst Australian policies of 50 years ago were not about rounding up and mass-murdering aboriginal people. If you throw Nazism around everywhere, you dilute the word. There is plenty of room for criticism of Australia's treatment of Aboriginal people but don't go overboard or you weaken your argument.

Nazism is illegal here:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-15/qld-man-charged-nazi-salute-at-afl-game-banned/105773522
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-04/vic-camp-sovereignty-charges/105732982
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/pm/neo-nazi-leader-arrested-in-melbourne/105727024

But it is also present and we are fighting a war against it:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-01/authorities-condemn-anti-immigration-rally-perth-neo-nazi/105722068

Every single piece of news about the aborigines has been bad for decades,

You probably only see the stuff that makes your feed globally and yes, there is plenty of news that is bad. But there's lots that isn't as well. The last piece of news I read before this article was about Cathy Freeman being inducted into Stadium Australia's inaugural Hall of Fame list. Here: have some news that is nicer:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-16/cathy-freeman-ian-thorpe-stadium-australia-hall-of-fame/105777908
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-04/binar-futures-basketball-adam-desmond-perth/104653506
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-28/uni-program-pairing-first-nations-business-owners-students/103896464
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-13/intense:-stolen-generations-survivor-recounts/103458314
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-04/school-program-aims-to-keep-pertame-language-alive/102810296

with little or no social assistance in any way.

Again, let me correct you here:
https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/payments-and-support-for-indigenous-australians?context=60078
https://www.niaa.gov.au/our-work/grants-and-funding
https://www.health.gov.au/our-work/indigenous-australians-health-programme
https://www.indigenous.gov.au/grants

Look, I'm not saying we're perfect on this front. Hell, I don't even think I'd go so far as to say we're good on this front. But we're trying, ok?

[-] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago

The stolen generation continues under other names, Indigenous familes are still regularly torn apart in the name of child protection, Grand Mothers Against Removals is a group that works to keep children in community, you can read some more about them here

https://www.foe.org.au/grandmothers_against_removals

I'm not going to spend the time responding to every one of your points, but you might need to take a step back and think about you were so quick to ardently defend an imperialist settler colony

p.s.

something that is really irking me lately is the implication that the state banning racist hand gestures, and nazi flags is going to solve anything.

Banning nazi symbols only means nazis now march under the australian flag, the australian flag was already a colonial symbol, it comes from a time when the state was explicitly white supremacist. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

[-] Nath@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

I have absolutely no idea how you can read the words "scandalous" and "cultural genocide" and think I was defending anything. I was saying that comparing the worst of government policies to literally rounding up every man, woman and child and outright murdering them is damaging to your argument. They are terrible failures in policy, but they are not comparable to Nazi policies.

the state banning racist hand gestures, and nazi flags is going to solve anything.

What exactly do you propose the government do instead? We can't lock people away for what they think. We can only prosecute them when they do something like hate speech, waving Nazi flags or doing Nazi salutes.

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