Shared on Facebook with the caption “Doing absolutely no favours to their international reputation, Americans have swarmed social media posts of Taylor Swift’s Melbourne concerts confused by a very obvious detail. Can you spot it?”
It’s an article from the Murdoch right-wing paper “The Australian”, so I won’t link the original source.
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Aerial photo of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, surrounded to its North and East by tree-filled parks, to the West by a warm-up pitch, and to the South by a train line with two pedestrian overpasses over it. Underneath this photo is the article title “The MCG show detail that has American Swifties baffled” and byline “by Sam McPhee”.
I figured there’d be a parking garage or something just off shot connected to those bridges. Nope.
Also unrelated I went to the stadium’s website and was immediately hit with this:
This place is pretty cool.
Acknowledgements of Country are pretty standard these days. Even quite conservative institutions do them regularly.
I’m trying to imagine a large American company doing this… Would be pretty radical in comparison