Rachelle Miller – former federal Human Services Minister Alan Tudge’s former media adviser and former girlfriend – was quizzed this week at the Robodebt Royal Commission.

She spilled the beans on the former Liberal/National federal government’s strategy to dampen media and therefore public interest in what has since become clear was pretty much an illegal, dangerous, brutal, and in too many cases fatal, politically motivated scam.

News outlets such as The Guardian Australia ran items summarising her evidence including her frank admissions of seeking to have pro-government yarns published in “friendly media”, eg: News Crap Australia. outlets.

Of course that would be old news to most observers since the Murdoch media is now better known as the Liberal Party’s advertising agency having long ago failed to qualify as a legitimate news organisation.

Indeed, our Media Glass House teams could find only a handful of very small stories published in Murdoch turdbloids about Ms Miller’s appearance. (below)

As expected, the small and obscure hard-copy and online stories that did run contained not a single word about the use of “friendly” Murdoch media to do the Morrison Government’s bidding.

Our MGH staffers suggest that in the highly unlikely event that the Murdoch media ever takes a Liberal Party  government to task (Yes, we know it’s never going to happen.) about the number of “spin doctors” a premier or PM employs, perhaps the story should also add in all News Crap Australia political reports in the particular jurisdiction.

***

In another judicial forum on Tuesday evidence was presented by a News Crap Australia legal representative as part of the proceedings linked to the defamation action launched against the Crikey! website by Lachlan Murdoch. (below)

The story run in the national broadshit The Australian presented as fact some of the allegations put to the court by the company’s barrister.

For example, it began: “A day after Crikey’s secret money-making strategy to incite a defamation writ from Lachlan Murdoch was exposed….”

Ooooh! Sounds so evil and spooky does it not? Of course it does, that’s the point.

We think it would have been so easy to insert an “alleged” here and there to reflect the fact that the line referenced arguments and claims by a News Crap Australia lawyer.

The bulk of The Oz story expanded on those claims, and did characterise them as allegations, by quoting Mr L Murdoch’s barrister who, as good barristers are expected to do, dumped buckets on Crikey and its motives.

Yet first impressions count, and anyone who read the lead paragraph would already have their view coloured by the time they reach the later ones.

But then again, as our MGH teams point out, the Murdochs believe that’s the whole point of having your own newspaper.

***

If you believe in following doctors’ advice then we suggest you don’t venture outdoors because of the risk of the sky falling on you.

That’s the tone of recent coverage by Brisbane turdbloid The Courier-Mail and its sister shitsheet the Sunday Mail (below) about a campaign by medicos to scrap a new ruling by the Queensland Government’s Office of State Revenue that means some GP clinics may pay some extra payroll tax.

The ruling follows court cases in other states that delivered a new interpretation of payroll tax regimes.

News Crap Australia outlets have been aggressively chasing down the Labor Party government in Queensland and giving hectares of space to the claims being made by GPs and their peak groups about the supposed dire consequences.

Other media outlets have taken a more balanced, and dare we say factual, approach.

For instance on the In Daily news website the other day a chap from the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners in Queensland was quoted as saying: “This is not a Queensland issue. This is basically a whole-of-country issue.”

He went on to explain: “All of the states have an agreement where they co-ordinate the application of payroll tax. The problems actually started in NSW and Victoria, who have been the most aggressive chasing payroll tax.”

The chap then explained that the Queensland Government had adjusted its payroll tax laws following separate rulings in Victoria and NSW.

Hmmmm, NSW you say?

Out of interest, we checked what the Sydney turdbloid The Daily Telegraph had been running in recent weeks on the very same issue as the NSW Liberal Party government creeps towards a March election.

We think – well, we know –  you can guess the outcome. But oddly enough we did find a full-page advertisement in the Tele yesterday (below) inserted by a doctors’ group calling on the Perrottet Government to scrap the payroll tax changes it has imposed, just as Queensland has done.

Has it reached the point where even the medicos need to buy space in the Tele to get their anti-Liberal Party story across?

No doubt they wished they had a Labor state government so they could save their cash.

***

Speaking of blatant bias, more evidence of The Courier-Mail’s efforts to tear down the government of Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and the Premier herself appeared in yesterday’s edition.

The paper alerted readers to the “link” between a member of the radical environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion and the Premier. (below)

It turns out that the link is that the activist’s husband was chosen by the Palaszczuk Government to head an inquiry into public service issues. So what, we say, and so much for women – even married ones – having a life and identity of their own. That clearly doesn’t matter at the Bowen Hills branch of the LNP.

The activist in question is one of several protestors facing charges for disrupting a sitting of the Queensland Parliament.

The Courier-Mail editorialised against the Premier – even though it was a decision by the Speaker to push for the charges – and questioned why a group of mainly elderly women should be treated in such a heavy-handed manner.

As our MGH researchers point out, it would be interesting to read the alternative editorial ranting about a weak and woke Premier allowing radical greenies to rule the roost if charges had not been laid.