@pewnack @ajsadauskas My comment was more a reference to sections of the Australian media that want to regurgitate the "cost of eggs" narrative from the US election.

Let me give a couple of examples.

Here's 2GB's Mark Levy interviewing Peter Dutton earlier this year: "Yeah, exactly. I get messages here on this programme, Mr Dutton, from listeners who say, ‘well, all we keep hearing is the Treasurer saying that, ‘oh well, we’ve brought inflation under control. Look at what we’ve done to the economy”. And the point they make to me is: ‘have they walked into the local grocery store and done the weekly shop because everybody’s prices of everything is going up’ – petrol, groceries, eggs. I mean, it’s all there and there for everybody to see."

Source: https://peterdutton.com.au/leader-of-the-opposition-transcript-interview-with-mark-levy-2gb-2/

Murdoch's Sky News has trotted out a handpicked supposed ordinary voter from Western Sydney who is supposedly concerned about the price of eggs.

Source: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/thinking-of-starting-to-raise-our-own-chickens-voter-pushed-to-extreme-measures-as-costs-of-fresh-produce-becomes-unbearable/news-story/3ac548f84106d939fae065b3d0beaf68

As usual, our ABC is jumping on the News Corp bandwagon: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-26/why-are-eggs-so-expensive-in-australia-us-donald-trump/105091068

I'm sure you can find more examples.

So the narrative News Corp and others in the Australian political media are so confidently pushing is that the politicians (especially Labor) are out of touch with ordinary voters in Western Sydney.

And the big issue supposedly on every voter's mind in Western Sydney is the price of eggs.

That the people of Parramatta and surrounds are deeply upset by the price they're paying for their eggs.

And the Murdoch press are so deeply in touch with the local zeitgeist they know this is the big issue.

Well, as an actual voter living in actual Western Sydney, I find it somewhat amusing.

Because *WHAT BLOODY EGGS*?!

No-one is worried they're paying too much for eggs, when there's often none in store to buy!

And here's the funny thing.

Had any of these Dutton stenographers so much as stepped foot inside a Coles or Woolies in Western Sydney these past few months, there's an above-average chance they would have said: "Huh. There's no eggs here."

Because *WHAT BLOODY EGGS*?!

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