Andrew bolt's opinionative piece,

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Expat Pat a funny choice

Andrew bolt’s opinionative piece, “Expat Pat a funny choice”, (Herald Sun), contends that Pat Rafter “clearly doesn’t deserve” the Australian of the year award because he lives in a “tax haven”.

        As indicated by Bolt, Rafter is not entitled to “this honour” because he is a “tax exile” not living in Australia, which would save him “a heap of money”. Such emotive and colloquial language, encourage readers to question Rafter’s initial motive, and symbolize Bolt as an ordinary Australian who is representing the majority of the public opinion.

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        Seeing that Pat Rafter is a “resident of Bermuda”, he is unable to help pay for “our schools, hospitals, police and roads” through taxes. This appeals to the reader’s sense of fairness and justice. Readers are inspired to feel let down and deceived by Rafter’s actions. This also questions whether Rafter deserves to be Australian of the year.

        The creditibilty of the National Australia Day Council is also challenged by Bolt. Rafter would not have got the “gong” if NADC had “followed its own rules”. Bolts stresses that it is a “joke” that “three of the past ...

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