AMANDA MEADE.-The Australian newspaper downplays bushfires in favour of picnic races.( The Guardian 4.1.2020)
January 8, 2020
And the Herald Sun relegates bushfires to page 4 while the Courier Mail brings good news via’Onion Oricle’
Read how the Murdoch papers deny climate change and largely ignore the fires.

John Menadue
John Menadue is the Founder and Editor in Chief of Pearls and Irritations. He was formerly Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet under Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser, Ambassador to Japan, Secretary of the Department of Immigration and CEO of Qantas.