Tuesday, 19 October 2021

Morning mail: UAP’s $1.2m YouTube spend, Australians go hungry, trial over 11,000 deaths

Wednesday: Party splashes cash and racks up millions of views. Plus: Poh Ling Yeow’s best-loved items

Good morning. An advertising cash splash by Clive Palmer’s United Australia party has increased eyeballs on its YouTube videos. More than a million Australian children have gone hungry in the past year. The Icac inquiry into Gladys Berejiklian continues today, and celebrity cook Poh Ling Yeow tells us which utensil she loves so much she would have it inked on her skin.

United Australia party has spent close to $1.2m on YouTube ads in less than two months and racked up millions of views of its videos criticising lockdowns and the government’s pandemic response. The increase in YouTube advertising – 22 times that of the next-largest amount by an Australian political party – began after the former Liberal MP Craig Kelly became the party’s parliamentary leader on 23 August. Seven of the last 18 videos uploaded to the UAP page have more than 1m views, with one featuring Kelly gaining 8.4m. A video from two months before that has just 4,800 views.

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