I still wonder whether it is Pravda or The Age operating out of Spencer Street.

How is it that an election campaign announcement by the Howard/Costello government for $34 billion in tax cuts — the biggest in Australia’s history — doesn’t even make front page news online? It’s only when you click-through to the election coverage area, or the National news, that you discover this announcement.

Speaking of the federal election dedicated page, the choice of photo used in the banner showing the Prime Minister and Opposition Leader has obviously been made by someone with a left-leaning anti-Howard bent — the use of a the low angle, sideways-glancing shot is a deliberate anti-Howard political statement.

No wonder The Age is referred to as the Spencer Street Soviet!