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The Groveller

Friday, 24 February 2023

The AFR should be shut. Its style of journalism is such insider groveling as to make it next to useless. To wit, today’s hagiography of Penny Wong:

The story is one long waste of time. It interviews only one side of the story in practiced Labor and China kowtowers such as Alan Gyngell, Alan Behm, and Geoff Raby (with a throwaway line from Julie Bishop).

Ironically, it is only Penny Wong herself that breaks with the China love-in:

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About the author

David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.