"What's happened to Australia?": Why Karl ripped into "woke" councils
Karl Stefanovic has once again let rip at “woke” neighbours and local councils, this time over one that forced a Queensland mum to remove a basketball hoop off a nature strip alongside her own driveway.
Mandy Overton from the Gold Coast was threatened with a $750 fine if she did not get rid of the basketball hoop from in front of her house.
Furious neighbours complained to the local council about Ms Overton’s children playing basketball in their own front yard, for allowing the ball to bounce on the road and for being too noisy.
“I got a knock at my door on Tuesday. The council officer came to the house and just basically said, if you don't move your basketball hoop by Friday, you will get $750 fine,' the mother told The Today Show co-host.
“Not only that, but she also mentioned too many kids playing with my basketball hoop. I don't think that's a problem. Kids being kids and playing.
“Also, they were saying if an accident would happen it would be on their call because it's on their land. They're just playing. I don't see what is the problem. They're getting out. Getting off iPads. Getting sociable with all the kids.”
A furious Karl took aim at the local council and the neighbours who filed the complaints, saying the kids should be allowed to be kids.
“Can I say something here? This is not politically correct at all. I don't know what has happened to Australia,” he said.
“We have people around in our neighbourhood now who are just whingers and whiners.
“They have nothing better to do with their day than complain to the local council, who are so woke and left that it passes on to us in the form of complaints and blah, blah, blah, I'm just sick of it.
“What's happened to Australia? You can't have a basketball hoop on the median strip?
‘I'm sick of it. I don't know what has happened to this great country. Everyone whines now.
‘It's local councils who are awful. Just fix the potholes, bros, as Kyrgios would say. Just do council stuff. Don't get in our lives.”
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