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Toto Albanese steals the post-election show as News Corp front pages do an about-face | The Weekly Beast
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Toto Albanese was the undisputed star of the newspaper front pages on Monday morning after her master Anthony Albanese won the election. The headline writers were inspired by the little white dog – who now has her own unofficial Twitter account. “Albanese Unleashed”, said the Courier Mail; “I’m Top Dog, Toto”, said the Advertiser; “Ruff and Ready”, said the Daily Telegraph; and “Top Dog Flies High”, said the Herald Sun, throwing in a reference to the PM’s trip to Tokyo. The Australian featured Toto too, but was a little more sober with a simple headline “Albanese Does It”. Nine’s two city mastheads, the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, which both backed Labor in editorials last week, chose photographs from a coffee morning Albanese had with Sally Sitou, who won Reid for the ALP, and the Marrickville community on Sunday morning.
For News Corp, Monday’s post-election front pages were markedly different in tone to those that had dominated the election campaign and that were largely hostile to the then opposition leader: “PM warns of ‘vandal’ Albanese” (the Australian), “Albanese a ‘left-wing inner city bomb thrower’” (Telegraph), “Is Anthony Albanese really up to this?” (Courier Mail), and “It’s not so Albaneasy” (Telegraph), which of course echoed the Liberal’s ad campaign, “It won’t be easy under Albanese”.
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