{"id":11480,"date":"2021-08-25T08:32:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T22:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/?p=11480"},"modified":"2021-08-25T08:40:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T22:40:22","slug":"australia-painted-as-a-dystopian-nightmare-as-footage-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/australia-painted-as-a-dystopian-nightmare-as-footage-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia painted as a \u2018dystopian nightmare\u2019 as footage goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCO0akufu9MOzyz3nvGIXAAw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sky News Australia<\/a> &#8211; Aug 24, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Australia painted as a \u2018dystopian nightmare\u2019 as footage goes viral\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qPK1fwJ_WwE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>More footage from Australia is going viral and painting our country as a \u201cdystopian nightmare\u201d where individual rights are not protected and a scared populace submits to a police state, according to Sky News host Rita Panahi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo us, a bunch of teenagers being handcuffed in the middle of the night and fined $1,000 each for the crime of meeting at a Sydney beach has become normal,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut the rest of the world looks in abject horror.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms Panahi said people around the world are \u201cmarvelling\u201d at what\u2019s happening in Australia, noting Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson has taken aim at how Australian police are treating protesters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere is similar commentary and discussions I\u2019ve seen from the UK,\u201d Ms Panahi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIs this how we want to be perceived as a country?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCO0akufu9MOzyz3nvGIXAAw\" target=\"_blank\">Sky News Australia<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sky News Australia &#8211; Aug 24, 2021 More footage from Australia is going viral and painting our country as a \u201cdystopian nightmare\u201d where individual rights are not protected and a scared populace submits to a police state, according to Sky News host Rita Panahi. \u201cTo us, a bunch of teenagers being handcuffed in the middle&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/australia-painted-as-a-dystopian-nightmare-as-footage-goes-viral\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Australia painted as a \u2018dystopian nightmare\u2019 as footage goes viral<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,93,9,7,198,97,151,214,769,8],"tags":[556,111,94,377,226,674,523,1690,167,2567,3387,486,531,41,37,237,43,414],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/australia-painted.jpg?fit=727%2C409&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11483,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11480\/revisions\/11483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}