Murdoch newspaper promotes Australian Labor leader
Under conditions of a worsening COVID-19 pandemic and related political crisis, the
Australian, Rupert Murdoch’s national flagship, last week published two “exclusive” interviews and an editorial boosting Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese.
Once more, as in the past, the
Australian and other Murdoch media outlets are turning toward the Labor Party as a possible means of containing social and political discontent that a Liberal-National Coalition government is proving incapable of suppressing.
Anthony Albanese (Source: @AlboMP)
The newspaper’s promotion of Albanese came as a series of media opinion polls provided a limited indicator of the mounting popular hostility toward the political establishment, particularly Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s federal Coalition government, for its disastrous corporate-driven failure to protect the population from the rapid spread of the coronavirus Delta strain.