Ok, I need to call this out. Unless I missed something, there's nothing to suggest that the person involved is an overseas resident.
> but you get a year on your homeland licence before having to sit a local road rules exam.
P-plates suggests she's doing a local driving licence. If you area foreigner from quite a few countries you just show your existing driving licence and get a Vic one without any exams and without p-plates.
And/or from another local article:
"The 23-year-old, who is on a bridging visa, was released on bail despite concerns from police prosecutors she could flee the country."
"The court heard that Ms Agrawal, whose driver’s licence had previously been suspended..."
Just based on the picture I'd be pretty confident she is. I find it fairly easy to pick out young people from Asia who are recent immigrants based on their dress and hairstyles.
racial stereotypes. FTFY
Not sure what people find wrong about this. Yes, a fashion change in immigrants sure happens for many reasons. But going the other way - from "I see a person" to "she's a recent immigrant" is harmful stereotyping because you will be wrong. Doing that under a post going from "probably a recent immigrant" to "she probably did a hit-and-run because of driving culture and environment of where she's from" is just fuelling racial BS.
Your point is well made. I probably wouldn't post given a second run.
Is that a controversial observation?
The 23 year old wearing the Tommy Hilfiger sweatshirt driving the expensive car with custom plates just screams young immigrant with rich parents.
I'm not making any claims that there something wrong with being an immigrant, they're just easy to pick out.
> recent immigrants
A recent immigrant, by definition, cannot be an overseas resident (at least not by normal definitions of 'resident').
If you search the drivers name and Tesla, other articles do claim that she is not a citizen or permanent resident of Australia and is there on a bridging visa.