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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Amanda Meade

We shall fight them on our pages: Nine newspapers invoke Churchill to defend their Red Alert series

Winston Churchill, Britain’s wartime leader, who the SMH and the Age leadership have compared themselves to.
Winston Churchill, Britain’s wartime leader, who sources say the SMH and the Age leadership have compared themselves to. Photograph: PA

The Sydney Morning Herald and the Age are seething about the widespread criticism which followed publication in the Nine newspapers of the Red Alert series, in which an expert panel asserted Australia faced “the threat of war with China within three years”.

So passionate is the leadership of the Nine papers about the importance of Red Alert that they have referred to it in the newsroom as akin to “Churchill taking on the Nazis”, sources told Weekly Beast.

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