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''How do you turn a scandal into a positive story for a minister? Pick the publication you give the follow up story to''This illustrates how media owned by billionaires with everything to gain by maintaining a friendly government in power contorts the media for it's own ends. The Daily Tele Aust is owned and overseen by Murdoch. ''In 2018 Guardian Australia’s environment reporter Lisa Cox revealed the Australian government has permitted the export of hundreds of rare and endangered parrots to a German organisation headed by a fraudster despite concerns the birds could be sold at a huge profit. The six-month Guardian investigation led to an independent report being commissioned from KPMG, and Cox was instrumental in providing the report’s authors with information and contacts.oWhen KPMG delivered the report to environment minister Sussan Ley she chose not to give it to Cox or release it to the media generally but to give an exclusive drop to the Daily Telegraph.The resulting story was a win for Ley who looked like she had taken decisive action against the nefarious practice.“Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley ordered a review of export wildlife licences to ensure enough protections are in place to thwart dodgy dealers and exporters profiting from the trade in native species both here and overseas,” the Daily Telegraph reported.“The growing involvement of organised crime in the trade, sophisticated international trading operations and the soaring value of Australian wildlife on black markets, some of which can sell for tens of thousands of dollars, underline the need to send the strongest possible deterrent,” Ley was reported saying.When Cox got her hands on the report she wrote a different story, saying the federal environment department had failed to investigate allegations the birds were being sold in Europe and continued issuing permits''https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/feb/26/andrew-bolts-virus-thrives-in-multiculturalism-columns-offensive-press-council-says