Reza Barati, an Iranian asylum seeker incarcerated at the Manus Island "offshore processing centre" in Australia's care was murdered by security guards on Thursday 20 February. The Age (Melbourne) put this story on its front page with further information inside on page 2.
In the Herald Sun (Melbourne), the same story appears for the first time on page 15, with very little information provided. A leggy model and a local murder is featured on its front page.
This is good example at the extreme bias of the Murdoch-owned Herald Sun towards the Abbott LNP Government. Bad news stories about Labor are paraded on their front page, while bad news stories about the LNP are relegated much further back.
It is interesting that Herald Sun editorials and some journalist recently stridently attacked the ABC for "alleged bias against the LNP government" supporting claims to that effect made by Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
How do these people lie straight in bed?
The extremely biased Murdoch press and Tony Abbott attack the ABC when they report both sides of a story (such as allegations that Navy personally deliberately inflicted burns on asylum seekers in a boat they were turning back to Indonesia).
Mr Abbott, we need a Royal Commission into the Navy hand burning allegations, and into the Australian Navy's repeated incursions into Indonesian waters!
Sorry, I forgot, Royal Commissions are only held as witch hunts to score points against the Opposition (e.g. home insulation and union corruption).
These are dark days for Australia. Our international reputation is being trashed by the Abbott government's human rights abuses against asylum seekers, and Abbott's often repeated lie that is "illegal to seek asylum in Australia" when it is not.
Leunig summed things up nicely.
Rest in Peace Reza Barati
In the Herald Sun (Melbourne), the same story appears for the first time on page 15, with very little information provided. A leggy model and a local murder is featured on its front page.
This is good example at the extreme bias of the Murdoch-owned Herald Sun towards the Abbott LNP Government. Bad news stories about Labor are paraded on their front page, while bad news stories about the LNP are relegated much further back.
It is interesting that Herald Sun editorials and some journalist recently stridently attacked the ABC for "alleged bias against the LNP government" supporting claims to that effect made by Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
How do these people lie straight in bed?
The extremely biased Murdoch press and Tony Abbott attack the ABC when they report both sides of a story (such as allegations that Navy personally deliberately inflicted burns on asylum seekers in a boat they were turning back to Indonesia).
Mr Abbott, we need a Royal Commission into the Navy hand burning allegations, and into the Australian Navy's repeated incursions into Indonesian waters!
Sorry, I forgot, Royal Commissions are only held as witch hunts to score points against the Opposition (e.g. home insulation and union corruption).
These are dark days for Australia. Our international reputation is being trashed by the Abbott government's human rights abuses against asylum seekers, and Abbott's often repeated lie that is "illegal to seek asylum in Australia" when it is not.
Leunig summed things up nicely.
External links
- Iranian asylum seeker killed on Manus Island named Reza Barati, The Age
- Petition | Allow journalists access to the Manus Island detention centre, Change.org :
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