An online fundraiser set up to help an Australian comedian who was fired for a skit making fun of fake aboriginals has had been flooded with donations and messages of support from anti-woke Aussies.
Lisa Spencer revealed on Thursday she had lost her job at the Peninsula Hot Springs in Victoria as a result of a vicious doxxing campaign by far-left activists over the satirical clip, where she called herself Aunty Lisa, claimed to have “transitioned” into an indigenous woman, and pretended to sniff petrol.
But Ms Spencer has refused to apologise or back down to her critics despite being deluged with online abuse, and started a GiveSendGo on Friday morning, which raised more than $10,000 within the first two hours.
This transition hasn’t been easy, but it’s been worth it 🖤💛❤️ pic.twitter.com/R9dkD0clny
— Lisa Jane Spencer (@LisaJaneSpencer) June 2, 2026
In the fundraiser she quoted an online friend who wished to stay anonymous as saying: “Lisa is an online comedian and my personal friend.
“Over the past few days, Lisa was brutally harassed and bullied in response to a harmless comedy-clip posted to her social media channels (Instagram, Facebook etc.), where through ironic mimicry she made a joke about people with visibly White skin who identify solely as ‘native Aboriginals’.
Far-left activists discovered Lisa’s place of work and threatened her employer, resulting in her losing her job.
“The sort of things this woke ‘cancel-culture’ mob have said about Lisa are disgusting and untrue. Lisa is an honest, hardworking member of the community. She is intelligent, fair-natured and has a sense of humour appreciated by millions of Australians.
“Lisa relied on her job to survive, I think it’s important we rally behind Lisa to demonstrate that free expression and good comedy cannot be simply cancelled by the far-Left. Australians should support each other in the face of this bullying!”
Many of the donations were given with messages of support and criticisms of cancel culture, including “end the woke rubbish” and “good on you Aunty Lisa”.
“Never apologise and never explain,” one supporter wrote.
“Never give up and your freedom of speech and expression your right for comedy/satire work. Life is annoying enough that we have to tip top around everything we say and do,” said another donor.
Ms Spencer was also forced to re-upload the clip to Instagram after taxpayer-funded multiculturalism broadcaster SBS bowed to pressure from far-left activisits and made a copyright complaint about its logo being used, even though satire is exempt and the logo was a reference to a segment about Roxanne Tickle, a man who claims to have “transitioned” into a woman.
“Repost: Insight SBS got this video (and the Indian ones) taken down for ‘copyright’ as I used their logo as a joke. But seeing as they’re tax funded, doesn’t that mean we actually own it?” she asked in the caption.
Her former employer is also facing backlash from anti-woke Aussies who are vowing to boycott the establishment for firing Ms Spencer.
The hot springs is run by Charles Davidson in partnership with co-owner Bharat Mitra, according to the company’s website, which also features an aboriginal flag and a land acknowledgement.
Ms Spencer is not the only comedian to joke about White people falsely identifying as aboriginal, with ABC series Black Comedy featuring a skit about a White Australian woman adopting an indigenous identity.
Aboriginal ABC presenter Tony Armstrong also featured a number of skits mocking White people in comedy show Always Was Tonight earlier this year.
Indigenous identity fraud has also been highlighted as a major issue by aboriginal leaders, with some calling for an end to unverified aboriginal self-identification carried out in order to receive preferential treatment from the education and health systems, and saying up to 40% of those who claim to be aboriginal are fakes.
In 2024 the South Australia Independent Commission Against Corruption warned that businesses were taking advantage of government policies designed to benefit aboriginals by pretending to be indigenous, labelling the practice “black-cladding”.
