''How do you turn a scandal into a positive story .......... ''

[SydneyRover]

''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.o

When 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

[tyke1962]

''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.o

When 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

Wow the Guardian , amazing the battles it wants to fight and those it doesn't .

Any paper with Labour intentions would have been all over Hancock and his chumocracy last week .

Sigh !!!

Dear me , it's time my vote went elsewhere even though it would be valueless in the grand scheme of things .

Carry on with your small time stands against things the majority of us don't give a shyte about .

[SydneyRover]

A couple of points Tyke this link is from the Oz Guardian and secondly it's one of many stories covering liberal and or progressive politics it doesn't claim to be far left just accurate.

If you wanted to read about the tory chumocracy this is from the UK Guardian 15/10/2020, do please try to keep up.

'''Chumocracy': how Covid revealed the new shape of the Tory establishment''

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/15/chumocracy-covid-revealed-shape-tory-establishment

[selby]

  I am torn who to feel the most sorry for, Stabber because of the rabble he leads and its followers, or the rabble and followers Stabber leads.

[idler]

Feel sorry for the country Selby.
Where are the politicians from any party that seem equipped to run this country and take us forward?

[SydneyRover]

Not surprised you feel torn selby the team you voted for keeps ripping you a new arsehole on a weekly basis fifth as it presides over the worst death toll in Europe and fifth worst in the the world due to covid and has trashed the economy to boot. If you read the link it shows how they are taking the piss on a daily basis, rubbing salt in by giving fat contracts to their mates. Do they write to you thanking you for the freedoms you granted them?