February 3, 2002  Martin Lehmann  

That great bastion of political correctness, The Australian newspaper, has in the past few weeks become the advocate for  Afghani illegal immigrants in Australia. The paper has flooded us with stories of deprivation and images of "asylum seekers" glumly staring out through barbed-wired compounds. In what must be a record, for five days in a row, Nicholson, the Australian's chief graphic propagandist, bombarded the readers with cartoons of lip-sewn refugees. 

Every cartoon slagged Immigration Minister Ruddock and the federal Liberal government even going so far as to portray Ruddock as a Nazi camp commandant.

As previously pointed out on this site, the politically correct, left-leaning, trendy, bleeding heart journalists  of The Australian are way out of touch with the majority of Australians. Every survey reveals the government action on illegal immigrants commands  80 to 90 per cent support of the people. Talk-back calls and letters to editors of papers such as The West Australian show similar support levels.

But the leftie collective at The Australian must be carefully picking the letters to publish because their letters run at about 80 per cent against the government.

Australians are tired of being bombarded with refugee "news". And the illegal immigrants have learned to play up to the media. We have all seen images of Afghani children suddenly begin chanting "visa, visa" when they see a camera pointing at them.

The media have long abrogated their function to accurately report on news. They now control and create news and public opinion. This is dangerous.