Australia's acting PM criticized for saying "all lives matter" and equating U.S. Capitol attack with BLM protests

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right.

George Orwell, he/his/him

Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack, who is acting as the conservative government's leader while Prime Minister Scott Morrison is on vacation, has come under widespread criticism since Monday, when he described last week's insurrection on Capitol Hill that claimed five lives as "similar to those race riots that we saw around the country last year".

McCormack, who leads the rural-based The Nationals junior coalition partners, used several television and radio interviews on Tuesday to reject calls for an apology over his comparison.

"Amnesty International and others -- and I appreciate there are a lot of people out there who are being a bit bleeding-heart about this and who are confecting outrage -- but they should know those lives matter too", McCormack told reporters. "All lives matter. People shouldn't have to go to a protest and lose their life".

Amnesty International Australia's Indigenous Rights Lead, Nolan Hunter, said McCormack was "continuing to show his ignorance about what Black Lives Matter means and how it affects our mob right here in Australia".

"Ignorance of the issues that affect Indigenous people in Australia is why we are behind the rest of the world and lock up little children as young as 10 (and) why Indigenous children are 27 times more likely to end up in prison than their non-Indigenous peers", Hunter said in a statement Tuesday.

"Instead of backing up President Trump, the acting prime minister should be backing up Indigenous people in his own country and take the lead in addressing these issues", Hunter added.

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Australia's acting PM criticized for saying "all lives matter" and equating U.S. Capitol attack with BLM protests

Beyond disgusting. There's no comparison.