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News rooms right around the country are today desperately trying to find out whether or not Prime Minister Albanese has negatively geared the Central Coast property that he bought with his new fiancee in an effort to be closer to her parents.
The four million dollar beachside house, which is barely big enough to sustain the security guards and surveillance infrastructure that he will need for the rest of his life, has made countless headlines since it’s purchase six months ago.
In the midst of a cost of living crisis, it was not a good look for a world leader to buy a house that is 3-times more as expensive as the average first home buyer can afford. And the Australian media has been diligent in letting the nation know this in the lead up to a Federal Election.
However, when it comes to the net-worth of our elected officials, it seems that the man who was raised in public housing is of far more interest than the man that is hoping to replace him at the 2025 election.
With a reported $300m to his name, Peter Dutton’s exorbidant wealth is of no interest to the the Australian media. As far as they are concerned, he worked hard for money, by being a policeman in 1990s Queensland. He also flipped a couple of properties here and there.
However, there is one niggling journalist who is starting to say the quiet bits loud, much to the frustration of Australia’s predominantly Liberal-party slanted media infrastructure.
NewsCorp’s Samantha Maiden, is once again proving that not even Rupert Murdoch can silence her reporting in his own News.Com
Maiden can be remembered as the same head-strong woman who inconveniently blew open the story of Brittany Higgins in the lead up to the 2022 election.
And it looks like she may have caused great pain to the poor Liberal Party once again, when she today revealed that the Leader Of The Opposition bought shares in 3 of the major banks the day before the government announced a billion dollar bailout package for those same financial institutions. He was a shadow cabinet minister at the time, and it was his first trade in three years.
Elsewhere in the sports-betting-funded Australian media landscape, other hungry young journos are weighing up if they themselves have enough clout as Samantha Maiden. And if it would be worth potentially destroying their careers by investigating this extremely dodgy confidence any further.
One young journalist, who has asked to remain nameless, tells The Betoota Advocate that his career is now up in flames after pitching a follow-up story about Peter Dutton’s sinister share trading in 2009.
Gavin* [name changed] has been advised by his editor that he will be spending the duration of the 2025 Federal election campaign focusing on Married At First Sight and stories about OnlyFans models buying properties in Sydney.
