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Today we analyse the ‘China tweet’ as a satirical photomontage and consider if our outrage at China is being misdirected.
The episode looks at the tweeted image as propaganda designed to reflect back at us Australia’s hidden war crimes. It is a shout out to our hypocrisy which Scott Morrison has no right to censor.
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