Weirdly, people in an electorate infected with the Daily Telegraph and Herald Sun are apparently increasingly opposed to immigration. I know! After all of the PEOPLE OF CERTAIN RACES THE POLICE ARE CONCEALING ARE COMMITTING VIOLENT CRIMES WINK WINK stuff, and the CERTAIN PEOPLE ARE “ILLEGALS” stuff, and the THE GOVT GIVES THEM LUXURY ITEMS [...]

A quick case study of our hack tabloid media, with the Melbourne Herald Sun‘s version of today’s “big” story (something something Gillard something Thomson Slipper something WORST GOVERNMENT EVER). Tonight the paper is boasting that its readers don’t like the PM and are on board with the demands for a new election it’s been making [...]

Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu breaks an election promise about carbon reductions: A PLAN to cut Victoria’s greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent over the next decade is set to be dumped by the Baillieu government on the basis that it would merely lighten the load imposed on other states… The former Brumby government introduced [...]

So the Herald Sun is finally going behind a paywall. Here’s hoping that they properly value the content we talk most about here on Pure Poison. The provocative work of Anne Wright. The informative analysis of Andrew Bolt. The intriguingly anonymous editorials. It would be a shame if any of that, uh, quality content was [...]

I think that’s supposed to be about (one of) the rich heiress’ kids. Although it’s amusingly ambiguous. Particularly because the linked story doesn’t actually “expose” any “secret lives of luxury” – it just lists the countries they’re now living in. WHAT A SCOOP. Oh, and it links to the tendered security report. DO YOUR OWN [...]