Sall Grover and Ben Fordham (Images: AAP/Private Media) 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. Speakers for the event, which is set to take place in Brisbane in early October, have begun to be announced, and one of the earliest confirmations is Sall Grover. The announcement came on the same day that the Federal Court found Grover’s app, the “female only” Giggle, had illegally discriminated against transgender woman Roxanne Tickle, after Tickle was booted from the platform for not looking “sufficiently female”.
Grover was forced to pay $10,000 in compensation and legal costs . A promotional image for CPAC featuring Sall Grover (Image: CPAC) It’s proof that once you appeal to a certain crowd, pretty much anything makes you a figureh.