INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS:

The peak body representing professional writers in Australia is challenging the formation of a new body advocating for columnists and commentators employed by News Crap Australia’s daily broadshit The Australian.

The Australian Writers’ Guild (AWG) said it planned to issue a legal challenge to the new organisation, The Australian Righters’ Guild (ARG).

AWG spokesperson, Cliff Hanger, said the guild felt its legal action was needed to avoid any future confusion with the ARG among the reading public.

“Only writers of a certain quality can be members of our organisation,” Mr Hanger said. “That means the Australian reader knows exactly what they are getting.”

Australian Righters’ Group spokesperson Gerard Henderson (main picture) said the new group had been formed by him and other columnists at The Australian to protect their professional standards.

“The ARG was created because there simply aren’t enough far right-wing commentators at The Australian,” Mr Henderson explained.

“Far too often we see valuable space on the opinion pages of The Australian handed over to woke, radical, far-left guest writers like …. umm… ahhh….oh, yes, ex-Labor senator Stephen Loosley.

“By ‘far too often’ I mean about once every three months which is simply intolerable.

“We need more right-wing, preferably far-right wing, columnists – people who will praise the late living saint Cardinal George Pell,  see a return to federal parliament by Tony Abbott as the only real solution to the LNP’s revival, who will denigrate the voice to parliament, cast doubt on non-existent climate change, talk up nuclear power, belittle female political leaders except those in the Liberal Party, and especially Jacinda Ardern who has wrecked the New Zealand economy but who as a girlie hasn’t even had the guts to contest October’s election that she would have lost badly anyway, and never ever mention anything remotely negative or questionable about Rupert Murdoch or Lachlan.

“Only righters of a certain quality can be members of our organisation,” Mr Henderson said. “That means The Australian reader knows exactly what they are getting.”