The Australian Government also had a "children being thrown overboard by asylum seekers coming by boat" scandal. I wonder how many others there have been.

[–] PupBiru@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

more info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_Overboard_affair

basically asylum seekers were passing their babies off a sinking boat to border patrol authorises and the government cropped it to make it look like they were throwing their kids overboard to shed weight and save themselves

[–] AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow

[–] PupBiru@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

yeah so that was our conservative government. no surprises there aye?