Overnight, Apple has pulled down a controversial game from its App Store which encouraged users to ‘fight the aboriginals’ and beat them to death with stone axes.
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Just when you think humanity couldn’t get anymore offensive… a newly released app on the Apple iTunes stores – rated for children aged 12 years and up – allows players to beat to death an ‘Aborigine’ during their quest to survive on the Australian continent. And a WARNING TO READERS: This story contains virtual imagery which may be extremely upsetting, in particular to Aboriginal people.
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Most Australians are surprised to learn that around 75 per cent of the Aboriginal population doesn’t live in a remote community.
Indeed, the largest population of Aboriginal people in the nation is in and around Blacktown, in western Sydney.
But that’s never stopped successive Prime Ministers from trying to score political capital by ‘going to visit the real Aborigines’… who all, apparently, live out bush.
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They’re back. Not counting Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, Australia’s most hated misogynist is sending his ‘wingmen’ back to Australia to explain to men how then can convince women to have sex with them.
And all you need to do is choke the girls a little bit, and maybe call them a “deadbeat whore”.
We didn’t make that up.
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In business, there are winners, and there are losers. And even though we’re only just a few weeks into 2016, we already know who this year’s biggest business losers are – the mugs who bought stock in Dick Smith Electronics from private equity firm Anchorage Capital.
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