On the 16th of September Malcom Turnbull was successful in taking the leadership of the Liberal party due to his majority vote during the spill motion. There has been a mixed reaction from the Australian public and the media to his recent elevation to Prime Minister. As this issue creates passionate polarised opinions within Australia, this article trivialises these views. Fairfax journalists usually write articles of a conservative nature although, in this piece, written by Georgina Connery, Malcom Turnbull is constructed as the instigator of homophobia and responsible for a blockade of civil rights within parliamentary processes. This article fabricates a personal conflict between Turnbull and equity campaigners although there is no such battle of ideologies. The demographic of this article have been exposed to a specific landscape of sophistry to create news for the mainstream readership out of a unsubstantiated conflict. …show more content…
Readers of this article are positioned to accept this foregrounding through the select arrangement of the photos within the mise-en-scene and framing. This is carefully manipulated by the author to create emotional investment from the reader’s therefore by-passing higher functions; this symptomatically creates a media piece that allows readers to accept Connery’s position. This in unification with the concise manipulation of grammatical techniques and diction to create a piece that guides the reader through a labyrinth of uncertainty. In this article Malcom Turnbull is constructed as the mastermind of homophobia and a blockade of civil rights within parliamentary processes. Connery may have little experience or respect for her target audience; she has created an article that disposes evidence and misdirects readers into a topic that does not discuss what the headline