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[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

takes people's minds off their low wages

[โ€“] wscholermann@aussie.zone 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You're right, a bit of bread and circuses

[โ€“] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 points 5 months ago

That what Australian press has been doing since the 1890s when jingoism and a fake image as a rural pioneer country was started to distract city folks from the nascent industrial city based workers rights movements in Europe

[โ€“] Mittens_meow@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago

Like the joke that was the voice campaign. They could have just done it instead of diverting attention from the of living and housing crisis