It’s been five years since Australia’s last Photoshop scandal, involving then-prime minister Scott Morrison’s white shoes, but it feels like a world away.
This week the Animal Justice Party MP Georgie Purcell had her photo edited to enlarge her breasts and insert a crop into her top that hadn’t been there. Having previously been a victim of image-based abuse, Purcell said the incident felt violating, and that the explanation given by Nine News failed to address the issue.
