The Turnbull Government has taken our border protection a few steps too far, building a fence on the border of Slovenia.
Or at least that’s what was reported by American cable news channel CNN.
Per reports from news.com.au, the 24-hour news channel has proven geography isn’t its strong point, and reported that Australia is set to construct a fence at our border with Slovenia. Except they meant to say Austria.
It’s probably just a typo by the person writing the news script and captioning the program, but either way, Twitter didn’t let them get away it.
US writer Matthew Yglesia spotted the embarrassing blunder and kickstarted the mocking spree:
This seems a little paranoid for an island nation thousands of miles away. pic.twitter.com/6jTLYhGwqz
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) February 29, 2016
And it was all downhill from there…
@mattyglesias They are just upset Austria won all those Oscars. — Malcolm Farr (@farrm51) February 29, 2016
When you’re too American to know the difference between Austria and Australia https://t.co/EF2scGWECF
— Tweets From Aleppo (@halabtweets) February 29, 2016
@mattyglesias @banas51 Don’t tell Malcolm or he’ll send a dozen subs to defend our fence on the Slovenian border. #auspol
— citizen grafiti (@grafiti) February 29, 2016
@mattyglesias you can never be too careful though — Dean Bedford (@DeanJBedford) February 29, 2016
@BamStroker that’s one very active Border Force if they are going that far. Ohhh CNN….There’s no Kangaroos in Austria #CNN — Scipio Artelius (@eveScipio) March 1, 2016
It’s just another error in the hilarious string of incorrect news reports from CNN, including crackers like the time they said a banner displaying a dildo at a Gay Pride parade was in fact an ISIS flag:
Flag depicting dildos to mock ISIS used at London #pride parade. CNN thinks it’s real and reports it as breaking news pic.twitter.com/F7v1oiInWn — Nara Hodge (@NaraHodge) June 27, 2015
Or the time when they didn’t do math good:
At least no matter what Scotland decides, they are giving it 110%. #ScotlandDecides #CNN pic.twitter.com/fl9dzQlaYL
— Brady (@burninggoats) September 18, 2014
And who could forget the time they called Putin ‘Jihadi John’: 
Just another day in the life of America.
