Today, Murdoch’s Australian-government subsidised national broadsheet The Australian and its gallery of old-white-men have anointed Jacinta Price, the face of the No campaign, as the “voice of her people”.

While allegedly poised to move on any day now, Rupert’s mob and other fossil media have penned the inevitable stories about why the No vote was a success.

Displaying their usual almost congenital talent for ignoring the elephant in the room, they entirely missed the story; and that is that their own puppet-master Rupert, and their very own campaigning for the No camp, was the most powerful weapon in defeating The Voice.

Against all odds, they scraped Scott Morrison over the line in the 2019 Election; spreading fear over franking credits and other tax reform which might hit the voter hip-pocket.

But here’s Albo, his Treasurer Jim Chalmers and other government ministers regularly writing opeds for The Australian and assorted other Murdoch and Nine mastheads – and making almost daily ‘drops’ (leaking press releases a day ahead) to the press gallery PR merchants of the News Corp and Nine media duopoly; giving them free content to entrench their daily influence in the news cycle.

The government even deploys public resources to pay its attackers – via the indirect subsidy program which is the Digital Media Bargaining Code.

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