In Australia’s case its a choice newsrooms make. Even if we don’t concentrate on Africa, which we should.

Shall we spend the next 24 hours talking about the latest violent shark attack? Or the admittedly interesting, mushroom murderer but for the 100th time. Did we need to know quite that much?

• 650,000 deaths in 2023 for children under 5 years old in Oceania. Thats our region, they’re our neighbours, Australia has a recognisable benefit to helping our neighbours. Its not purely altruism, these are the lines even the Murdoch media with their endless cultural emergencies could run with.

Reduce immigration? Help children survive, its directly correlated with economic prosperity. It can be such a ‘right-wing’ project its absurd they cede that political ground to the ‘left’.