Within a week of starting her shiny new job on TV, Brooke Boney was already making waves.
On January 14, she walked out onto the set of Channel 9’s Today show as their brand new Entertainment Reporter.
On her third day, talk turned to Australia Day which was just around the corner, and Brooke spoke her truth.
Brooke was a guest on No Filter. Post continues after podcast.
“I can’t separate the 26th of January from the fact that my brothers are more likely to go to jail than they are to go to school.
“Or that my little sisters or my mum are more likely to be beaten and raped than anyone else’s sisters or mum and that started from that day.
“For me it’s a difficult day and I don’t want to celebrate it,” she told the panel.
“Any other day of the year I’ll tie an Australia flag around my neck and I’ll run through the streets with anyone else.”
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Why are the far right so filled with such intense anger and hate? The same happened with Yassmin - so much for 'free speech'!! If you disagree with her, as you are well entitled to do, fine. But to send someone DEATH THREATS? Just for speaking HER truth? Why do people think they have the right to do that? The far right are always against any free speech, unless they agree with what is being said. Attempting silence people by death threats and threatening rape is not exactly 'free speech', is it? It's fascist dictatorship.
Antifa bashing reporters and bystanders in Portland, BLM supporters shooting Police dead, Bernie bros shooting at Republicans playing baseball, Leftie professors smashing people’s faces with bike locks or tens of millions imprisioned, starved or murdered in socialist workers paradises.
Why can’t the right behave like the pure and peaceful left???
"Antifa bashing reporters and bystanders"
A supporter of Fraser Anning bashed a reporter here in Australia during the election campaign in May.
"BLM supporters shooting Police dead"
Yes because white shooters in America have never shot at police.
"Bernie bros shooting at Republicans playing baseball"
It had nothing to do with Sanders. And you forget that there was a shooting of a leftist politician in the UK by a conservative supporter.
"Leftie professors smashing people’s faces with bike locks or tens of millions imprisioned, starved or murdered in socialist workers paradises."
Lol really? No evidence of these, and conveniently omitting that the far right do these things.
It's strange how the far right are so obsessed with America that an Australian automatically looks to the yanks for proof of anything. We've never been so obsessed with the yanks before. You can't find any Australian examples? As I proved above, your 'examples' are null and void, not just because they are yank examples on a topic that is Australian, but because for every single one of them, examples of far right violence can be found. But also because I was talking about verbal violence, death threats, rape threats etc. You had no real answer, because you know I am correct. The far right are extremely verbally violent and hateful and want to suppress free speech and hound those who don't agree with them out of the country. You have no argument against that, as we can see. Because as I said, you know I'm right in what I'm saying.
Let's not pretend either side are innocent parties in the free speech morality argument here.
In the online world and social media, sadly, death threats are commonplace.
Our team leader for an online game (this is a game remember) received death threats and had his name and address revealed after leaving the team (it was reported, noted and recorded by the company - they got perma-banned).
Death threats seem to be more an overall sign of the times than a sign of the politics imo
It wouldn't be a hardship to change the present date of Australia Day.
It doesn't have to be the 26th.
Our country - the one we all share, didn't start on the 26th January.
That's just the day that was "acceptable & proper " to a group of "old-school" & racist bureaucrats who never imagined that our indigenous people would ever be counted as people let alone "Australians".
NOW do you see why it has to be changed ?
My suggestion is that it's held on the Monday of that weekend - that way people still get their 3-day holiday.
It wouldn’t be a hardship to leave it alone either and to stop attacking all aspects of our culture and traditions, culture and traditions the vast majority of us are just fine with.
What date wouldn't represent all the things that happened?
What culture and tradition? The ones of our English heritage? News flash, we live in a multicultural society and our day of celebration should reflect that. If the day is moved, its really no skin off your nose.
It’s frankly bizarre that you see a massacre as an aspect of Australian culture and tradition. And very disturbing that you’re ‘fine with it’.