On October 21, The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia’s most widely read newspaper, ran a heavily redacted memo on its front page. Below the memo read, “When government keeps the truth from you, what are they covering up?”
The exact same memo ran on the front page of both national newspapers, the Australian and the Australian Financial Review and on all major metropolitan newspapers, including the Age, the Herald Sun, the Daily Telegraph, the Courier Mail, the West Australian, the Advertiser, NT News, the Mercury, the Canberra Times, and on the digital homepage of the Guardian and countless other websites.