RE: the two women in Brisbane. The Courier Mail, Brisbane's trash rag Murdoch paper ran this front page yesterday morning, which was then re-reported by everyone else following:
It's pretty incendiary.
The Bunnings Karen/Melbourne girl/Geelong real estate douche comparisons don't really carry water given they filmed themselves and posted their own videos online. It's also true that there has been no comparable doxxing of others, be it the security guard who is allegedly responsible for the quarantine outbreak, or the people who hosted a 1000-person rave in Byron Bay, etc. It's also also true that these are communities that have consistently been targets of media scorn, from the African Gangs shitshow to the recent reporting around the Flemington towers etc, and the longstanding local Brisbane stereotypes about Logan, and it's therefore pretty understandable that they're unhappy about the reportage regarding these two women.
It's a shitty situation. Their behaviour is undeniably an especially egregious breach of the COVID rules, and there is evidently public interest in understanding their movements and identifying possible contacts etc, but outing the girls with a hatchet job like that front page doesn't actually help that, and absolutely does have a whole lot of other negative impacts.
We are capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time. We can be pissed off at them and rightly angry at their behaviour while also acknowledging that the reporting of it lands in a particularly fraught cultural context that media outlets should be much more cognisant of. Dismissing concerns as "pulling the race card" when there's plenty of evidence that these incidents have real impacts on peoples' lives (see: increased incidence of racism directed at Chinese and Asian-Australians in the last six months) is just lazy and perpetuates the problem.
Also, what you think of their lips/appearance is completely irrelevant, so cut that shit out.