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Herald Sun SHOCK EXPOSE: Political people have political beliefs and sometimes express them publicly!

October 25, 2011 – 4:37 pm

Another Herald Sun beatup on the Occupy Melbourne protest, this time bashing the Greens because someone on their payroll might have been involved (HOW OUTRAGEOUS). The Hun’s headline? Yes, I’m sure they ran a similar headline about the Liberal Party members (taxpayer funded!) involved in the anti-carbon price rallies earlier in the year. “Taxpayers finance [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Also posted in Daily Telegraph, Posted | Comments (33)

Herald Sun’s welfare whinge

March 21, 2011 – 3:24 pm

Shameless beat-up in this morning’s Herald Sun on welfare in Victoria – or, in the paper’s more colourfully absurd language, “Victoria’s welfare binge“. (You’ll never guess it, but the “Centre for Independent Studies” is against.) Whilst the journalist has gone and added up the recipient numbers in some frankly confusing ways (are they counting someone [...]

By Jeremy Sear | Also posted in Herald Sun | Comments (17)