Who is spearheading the political narrative of Australia? Is it the robust debate between Coalition and Labor – the elected (if not ideologically unreliable) duopoly that pass the crown between themselves every three years? Or is it the ravenous press, whose ranks are padded-out with political miscreants salty about their gender studies debt…

We are told, repeatedly, that our public broadcaster and its private industry peers maintain impartiality, but the Australian public have long suspected that the real battle for the election takes place in the copy room, not Canberra.