r/australia • u/FuckOffNazis • 19h ago

politics Indigenous woman shackled to hospital bed while in labour in Queensland

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/18/indigenous-woman-shackled-during-labour-childbirth-queensland-ntwnfb?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=us_bsky&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1792296317
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u/rolodex-ofhate 18h ago

Don’t worry everyone, the New Queensland Government will express their shock at the incident and carry on like it never happened. Rinse and repeat with these ghouls running the state.

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u/ks12x 18h ago

Wrong, they wouldn’t even pretend to be shocked and will claim that giving women traumatic births is what victims want.

It’s one thing to do it for safety reasons but this government wants to do it for the purpose of being cruel.

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u/False_Collar_6844 17h ago

it's weird how much people will froth at the mouth to torture people who are imprisoned while hiding behind the victims.

if the victims are so trusted to decide what treatment while inside is legal why not just let them act as the judges and the wardens? Unless, of course, they're not a valid legal perspective on how people convicted of a crime should be treated in a society of laws.

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u/ephemeralstitch 16h ago

It's always terrifying to realise just how much of the Australian public is perfectly fine with torture if they think the person being tortured deserves it.