The thing about the right-wing news media ecosystem in Australia is that you can be as crooked and dishonest as you like, as long as you're shilling the right message for the generals of the culture war.
In Australia, if you are reliably conservative, you can pretty much say and do what you like, without any professional consequences.
You can lie, you can cheat, you can plagiarise, you can defend convicted paedophiles, you can get literal Nazis on your show, you can be found by the federal court to be a racist. It won't matter. You'll probably keep your show, your column, your lucrative board positions.
As long as you someone who is prepared to reliably take a conservative position in the culture wars, you will always be looked after by Australia's right wing mediascape. The only thing you can't do is step out of line. Then you're history.
