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Why has Victoria become a danger zone for journalists?

29 September 2020

5:30 PM

29 September 2020

5:30 PM

Asking meticulous questions of Premier Daniel Andrews is the fastest way to get yourself sent to the gulag. 

China hasn’t quite finished building Victoria’s physical gulags, so inquiring reporters are caged off in the social media equivalent, with bars forged from semi-literate hashtags and cells patrolled by propaganda bots pretending to be PR experts. 

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