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News Crap Australia senior executives are yet to determine whose heads will roll at The Courier-Mail and The Gold Coast Bulletin for major embarrassing editorial gaffes on page one of their Wednesday’s editions.

The daily turdbloids’ coverage of the acceptance of asylum in Australia by some members of the touring Iranian women’s soccer team was illustrated by a photo republished from a federal government Instagram account.

The Gold Coast turdbloid used the original image with the Albanese Government’s Home Affairs and Immigration Minister, Tony Burke, in a line-up with the relevant members of the soccer team. (left in main picture)

But The Courier-Mail clumsily manipulated the image to erase Mr Burke from the group shot. (right in main picture), not that the artists could bother erasing Burke’s left shoulder on the poor player second from the right.

“This was an outrageous decision,” a senior editorial News Crap source in the company’s Holt Street HQ in Sydney said. “How they thought they would get away with it is beyond anyone’s comprehension here.

“Heads will definitely roll at both papers over this embarrassing blue which flies in the face of News Crap Australia’s clear editorial guidelines.

“The tragedy is that those guidelines were so easy for both papers to follow, as a mock-up of what should have appeared clearly shows,” the source said. (below)

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Former employee of The Australian, Adam Creighton, appears to be an early and strong contender to take out The Bug‘s Arselicker of the Month (AOTM) trophy (below) for March.

Mr Creighton was previously the national broadshit’s Washington DC correspondent where he moonlighted as Donald Trump’s antipodean PR agent. (below)

He now works for the far-right think (and we use that word very loosely) tank, the Institute of Public Affairs but is occasionally given space in The Oz to right a few hundred words.

This week he penned a column lauding the individual and combined economic credentials of the coalition parties’ leadership teams. (below)

Citing the various academic qualifications and employment history of relatively new Opposition Leader, Angus Taylor, and new National Party leader, Senator Matt Canavan, Mr Creighton’s enthusiasm for the coalition’s future performance on matters economic was plain for all to read.

A source within the AOTM judging panel said Mr Creighton’s column gave him a strong claim to this month’s award.

The source confided: “The other issue in his favour is the fact that he cleverly did not allude to the performance of Mr Taylor or Senator Canavan in shaping the coalition’s economic policies for the 2025 federal election which can be best summarised as….

“Nor did he mention new Shadow Treasurer, Tim Wilson, the supposedly moderate far-right frontbencher and would-be Liberal leader who himself recently proved that when it comes to doing what’s needed to rebuild the coalition’s economic credibility, is literally tone deaf,” the judging panel source said.

“Regardless of what we might all think of Creighton, he always gets his righting spot on.”

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