I’m mostly with you. I absolutely cannot stand Shanks. His whole juvenile attitude really sucks, and it ruins his credibility. And outside of a small range of issues, his political opinions are outrageously stupid. He hates the Greens because he buys into the lies Labor spreads about the Rudd-era climate policy, but even worse he doesn’t understand how preferential voting works and pretends supporting the Greens actually helps the LNP.

But I also think you’re being unfair to the quality of his reporting. Even if it does nothing else, he definitely does raise an enormous amount of valuable awareness of serious problems. And I think there’s also value in some of the investigative work he’s done His Barilaro reporting and stuff about NSW clubs was especially strong.