A Zara dress, the Jim Reaper and a communist state: how Australia’s media interpreted the budget
by Amanda Meade from World news | The Guardian on (#75JZN)
The Murdoch papers sharpened their sickles and hammered Jim Chalmers' budget for the most radical redistribution of wealth since the Whitlam era'
The voters of New South Wales woke up in a communist state on Wednesday - at least according to the Daily Telegraph, which claimed that Lying Jim" Chalmers was cackling like the devil as he gouged them with big taxes in the federal budget.
To underline this apparent sharp turn to the left, the Tele added a red hammer and sickle and used a red background.
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