Arriving in Australia at the age of 18, she received mind boggling levels of patronage from elite Australian institutions to the point that her original airplane ticket to Australia is housed in a museum.
She was given an Order of Australia medal and was one of four Victorian state finalists to be nominated for Australian of the Year in 2022.
She was ultimately placed in charge of an $800,000 tax payer funded DEI project which was supposed to hold four public forums dedicated to protecting diverse women in high-risk workplaces from gendered violence.
Somehow she was not able to host four public events despite this large $800,000 grant. It is in fact unclear how many forums ever took place.
Nyuon said systemic racism contributed to the collapse of the project. She denied all wrong doing and was hospitalised for collapsing during the latter stages of the project, with her mental health impacted significantly.
Subsequently she announced that she was returning her Order of Australia Medal, ripping up her Australian citizenship, and returning to South Sudan.
Nearly 6 months have passed since her announcement that she intends to rip up her Australian citizenship and return to South Sudan. No progress has apparently been made on this project, but she has said it will be a long ”slow and certain process.”
Anyway, two nights ago the Australian state media national broadcaster ABC decided to feature her as an expert panel guest on a national debate show about migration. She took the pro-migration side against former Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson as well as senior politicians in the opposition Liberal and One Nation parties.
During the course of the debate, Nyadol Nyuon said that she had no intention to assimilate, and that white Australians have no culture.
Interested in her story, I decided to look up her Wikipedia page, at which point I discovered that her father was a Sudanese warlord accused of executing aid workers and starving dozens of child soldiers to death.
I even found a December 1992 exchange in the Australian Senate where Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans actually cited Nyadol Nyuon’s father William Nyuon by name and accused him of ordering the execution of UN aid workers.
I also discovered an interview Nyadol gave in 2019 where she told the ABC that she had a privileged life back home because of her father’s status.
Quote: ”I actually, in some ways, I think I had a very privileged life because of my father’s status at the time. So an example is when the war broke up in Ethiopia in 1991. I was one of the few kids that had soldiers carrying them, because my father had a lot of soldiers in his command. A lot of other kids were walking on their feet for forty days.”
Perfection.
When I pointed out the fact that Human Rights Watch and the Australian Foreign Minister accused Nyadol’s father of heinous war crimes, she said that he was a freedom fighter who did nothing wrong, and that criticising him was racist.
I wish Nyadol all the best in her future life back home in South Sudan, should she ever decide to actually finish her 50 stadium encore farewell tour here in Australia. I am sure she will be following through with her threat to leave any day now.
Source: Drew Pavlou
Nyadol Nyudon has been biting the hand that feeds her and spitting the dummy pretty much ever since we first heard of her. I well remember her complaining that Australia Day terrified herself so much she had to lock her traumatised self indoors for the day. But I wouldn’t be holding my breath for her get off the Australian gravy train and leave. She’s already laid the groundwork for a long, drawn out departure… like those who are forever threatening to leave X but never do. Nyudon will never renounce her Australian citizenship – you can bet your house on it.