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“I find it really hard to choose when to intervene and when not to, and when someone is worth the effort and when they’re not… I noticed that, again in some of the Facebook groups, recently when then the queen there was obviously a lot of conversation about how she did a lot of questionable things to a lot of minority groups and it’s ok for those people not to feel sad or to be mourning the fact that she’s died. People kept commenting in these groups being like ‘you cannot show disrespect for the queen, this is not ok’. At that point I saw a lot of people, and I think if they hadn’t done it, I would have done it, jumping in and being like ‘actually it’s totally ok for first nations people to not mourn the queen right now because this has happened to them’. At that point I think it’s worth an intervention because you should be standing up for people… If it’s not something like that and it’s just someone making a stupid comment, I think you’re not going to listen to me, why would I bother.” – Female, 21, QLD - Ashley