NT News in trouble over ‘final solution’ comment

Daily Northern Territory newspaper, the NT News – which has previously run with headlines including ‘Our Dog ate my g-string’, ‘They stole my dog while I was on the bog’, ‘Catnappers shaved my pussy’, ‘Why I stuck a cracker up my clacker’ and ‘Horny ghost haunts house’  – has gone too far in the eyes of the Australian Press Council.

The News-Corp owned paper published a message in its ‘Txt the editor’ section in which the reader said they would prefer “another grand final solution” to the Eurovision Song Contest, which was won by Israel.

The NT News said the text was not anti-Semitic or a reference to the Holocaust

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