Our two countries once shared a history fighting together for freedom. But does the US, like, even do that any more?Australians have found the behaviour of our American cousins challenging of late. Cultural differences yawn as wide as the Pacific between us. We were not sad to see “the baby wombat grabber” go.The first mistake made by Montana-based tourist Sam Jones, Online Influencer, was to snatch a joey from its mother at night. Her second mistake was to sway the frightened creature in front of some gormless chucklehead who filmed her – giggling – and to upload the footage to the internet. Continue reading...
Van Badham argues that a hypothetical second Trump presidency highlights the growing cultural divide between Australia and the US, as evidenced by the strong Australian reaction to an American tourist's mistreatment of a wombat, contrasting it with less public outrage over local animal cruelty. This difference in response is attributed to the tourist being an American displaying "chaotic dickhead" behavior. The Prime Minister of Australia has to deal with the new American president in the lead-up to an election.
