The Oz’s unfortunate pic, Social Services (finally) asks what people think, and an old fashioned Fordham farrago

Or just another country

The art of cropping can do more than fix the composition or energy of a picture. Take the following image from The Weekend Australian‘s coverage of the shellacking the Country Liberal Party handed out to Labor in the Northern Territory elections. A tipster sent it in, saying they’d “screenshotted [it] before the Oz inevitably takes it down. Check the shirt.” And yes, unless the party has renamed itself to better express its commitment to putting 10-year-olds in jail, that’s an unfortunate angle.

Sure enough, we checked back a day later and a slightly closer framing had replaced it.

Down in the Grove

Australia’s own ALDI-brand take on America’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) feels like it comes around earlier every year.