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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    4 months ago

    I figured there’d be a parking garage or something just off shot connected to those bridges. Nope.

    Also unrelated I went to the stadium’s website and was immediately hit with this:

    This place is pretty cool.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOP
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      4 months ago

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

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        4 months ago

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

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          4 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.

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            4 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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      4 months ago

      What is about names and pictures of dead people ? Are these tabou in their cultures ?
      Also what is the differences btw Aboriginal and Torres ?