Internationalist Bastard wrote:You'd think the Aboriginals would at least get a token representation
They always get ignored.
But even without being told anything about a scandal, I would have noticed that something was a bit odd about the ad. Maybe it's because I lived in inner-city Sydney for years and so I have a skewed view of what Australians look like, but if you drew a random sample of 12 people from around where I lived, it would not look like that!
I don't think there's any malice in it, but it's shitty politicking. The idea of putting "workers", complete with their little worker costumes, in the ad is to make people identify with the ALP and what it's trying to do. So it stands to reason that you'd pick a representative batch of people to try and get as many people to identify with your characters as possible.