Fact Check: Aboriginal Interpreter Is NOT Translating Mark McGowan's English To English In Video -- She Is Speaking Kriol
In a video made to encourage COVID-19 vaccines in aboriginal communities, did Mark McGowan, the premier of Western Australia, make a patronizing and insensitive blunder by having an Indigenous interpreter stand beside him and simply repeat what he said in accented English? No, that's not true: The interpreter, in a video that has gone viral, is translating McGowan's message into Kriol, a language that shares many English vocabulary words but is a distinct language.
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