General Discussion

Sky After Dark: — the evening lineup on Sky News Australia, our local Murdoch-owned answer to Fox News, except somehow worse because the accents make it sound like your racist uncle has a media degree. Runs from about 6pm onwards and features a rotating cast of red-faced commentators screaming about woke schoolteachers, the ABC, electric vehicles, immigrants, wind turbines, Greta Thunberg, and whichever Labor politician has most recently failed to bow deeply enough to a coal lobbyist. The target demographic is angry retirees in regional Queensland who think the country peaked in 1955 and have a Southern Cross tattoo on at least one calf. If you’ve ever seen Tucker Carlson and thought “this needs more Anglo whinging and a worse haircut,” congratulations, you’ve imagined Sky After Dark. The phrase “the average Sky After Dark viewer” is shorthand for someone whose entire worldview was assembled from headlines they didn’t read past, delivered by men who get paid to be angry at things they don’t understand.