An image sprang into the collective minds of our Brisbane-based Media Glass House researchers when they opened their copies of today’s News Crap Australia daily turdbloid The Courier-Mail.

There on page 11 was a very familiar looking full-page advertisement in bright yellow and darkest black for  anti-vax conferences being sponsored by Clive Palmer’s very badly named United Australia Party. (below)

The conferences on the Gold and Sunshine Coasts are to be addressed by a number of “experts” and we can all guess right now what they’ll be saying, so save your registration fee.

While News Crap Australia will no doubt welcome and relish Palmer’s party’s renewed interest in throw ad cash at them, we do wonder how he missed or misunderstood the message voters sent him at the May 2022 federal election.  

Because of their awareness of The Bug readers’ sensitivities, our MGH team members hesitate to share too many graphic details of the image that flooded their minds, save to say it involves a deceased animal and an uncharacteristically vigorous Palmer.  (main picture)    

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A few days ago various daily turdbloids of the News Crap Australia stable ran stories on a new documentary on the life of US actor Michael J Fox who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease 30 years ago while in his 30s.

While our Media Glass House researchers acknowledge that Fox himself has cracked jokes about his condition in subsequent years, they do wonder if the headline writers at News Crap Australia should have left that approach to him rather than offer the somewhat tasteless effort they chose. (below)

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Speaking of News Crap Australia’s headline writers, as we often do, a feature article in the national broadshit The Australian about departing New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern drew the attention of our MGH teams. (below)

No doubt The Oz would deny it, but our researchers suspect there was some – actually a lot – of misogynism behind the headline.

After all would not the word “wide” or even “global” have sufficed instead of “broad”?