US influencer who grabbed baby wombat, disgusted locals has left Australia: Dont expect she will return

The US influencer who disgusted Australians by separating a baby wombat from its mother for a video has snuck out of the country with her tail between her legs.News.com.au has confirmed that Samantha Strable, known online as Sam Jones, left the country this morning.It followed a threat to review her visa.“The department is now working through the conditions on her current visa and determining whether immigration law has been breached,” Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said.“Either way, given the level of scrutiny that will happen if she ever applies for a visa again, I’ll be surprised if she even bothers.”“I can’t wait for Australia to see the back of this individual, I don’t expect she will return.”A spokesman for Burke said he was glad to see the back of her.“There’s never been a better day to be a baby wombat in Australia,” he said.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese also blasted the American tourist, challenging her to “take another animal that can actually fight back” in an astonishing rebuke on Thursday.“I suggest to this so-called influencer maybe she might try some other Australian animals,” he said.“Take a baby crocodile from its mother and see how you go there.”“Take another animal that can actually fight back rather than stealing a baby wombat from its mother.See how you go there.”A Change.org petition was created in the aftermath of the recent controversy calling for the influencer to be banned from Australia.“Samstrays_somewhere should be deported from the country immediately and banned from ever returning,” it reads.Currently it has over 30,000 signatures.On Thursday, foreign minister, Penny Wong, also criticized Strable.“It looked pretty dreadful, didn’t it? I will leave those sorts of questions [about whether the influencer should be deported] to Tony Burke and to the authorities, but, really, leave the wombat alone.

… I think everyone who would have seen that would have thought, leave the baby wombat a...