Even though the Sydney Morning Herald ran a story on their website about the weekend’s Rising Tide blockade, it has maintained its silence in the print edition, except for a letter from Cathering Rossiter, of Fadden.
Verse 12: Newspaper of record? (after the Sydney Morning Herald print edition, 28 November 2023) In other news, a mass extinction threatens unless something's done to stop all fossil fuel extraction. Letter on page twenty-one thanks the thousands who blockaded Port Newcastle (paddled, waded, were arrested, took a stand), but that's the lot, the story's canned. A riot would have been reported, violent death would make page one, Pezzullo, Lehrmann, courtroom fun. But thirty hours, no coal exported: silence. Are they clowns or cads? Wel, fossil fuellers run big ads*.
* See SMH, 27 November, page 9
Me fail? I fly! 