The Advertiser is Running Interference for SAPOL, Diverting Attention Away From the Gaurav Kundi Death

“‘Running interference’ means to handle problems or remove obstacles for someone, often to help them succeed or to protect them from difficulties.”

This is exactly what The Advertiser is doing right now for its friends at the highly corrupt and predatory South Australia Police.

According to that Roy Morgan data, “The Advertiser and Sunday Mail engages with an average of 45 per cent of South Australians.”

It is a pity that The Advertiser is using this reach for nefarious purposes. It is actively helping to divert attention from the latest death caused by the violent criminals at SAPOL.

The recent death of Gaurav Kundi is a big deal. A very big deal. The 42-year-old husband and father of two children became unresponsive during an arrest in which SAPOL goons were captured violently manhandling him.

He spent two weeks in hospital, before his family made the heart-breaking decision to turn off his life support. Faced with the terrible news that Gaurav’s condition was terminal, his father made a mercy dash from India to say goodbye to his son.

Gaurav’s life support was turned off shortly after his father’s arrival on the morning of Friday, 13 June 2025.

A man is now dead because of SAPOL’s trademark unprofessional and gratuitous use of violence. Which can only mean one thing:

A cover-up is now in full swing.

SAPOL Clown-in-Chief Grant Stevens told the press the matter will be investigated thoroughly with “several layers of independent oversight”, which means SAPOL and its mates at the useless Office of Public Integrity will be investigating themselves. Apart from a few token recommendations about training procedures, they will find SAPOL and its officers innocent of any wrongdoing. This is how it always plays out.

We learned from an inquisitive reporter at Stevens’ press conference that a witness had observed the incident, had filmed portions of it, and had stated that police used excessive force on Gaurav. Yet no-one from SAPOL has so far contacted this key witness as part of their ‘independent’ investigations.

In the meantime, to quell public disgust, The Advertiser has stepped up to the plate to help divert sympathy away from Gaurav’s family and back towards the poor dears at SAPOL.

True Story: Cop Who Died 5 Years Ago Gets Front Page Coverage and 2-Page Spread, Recently Deceased Man Killed by Cops Gets Page 24

Gaurav’s terribly sad fate has attracted intense interest in both Australia and India. In less than 48 hours, the 7News Australia and 9 News Australia videos reporting Gaurav’s death have each attracted over 22,000 viewers on YouTube alone, outranking almost every other headline story except for the Iran-Israel conflict.

So when Saturday morning, 14 June 2025, rolled around and it was The Advertiser’s turn to report Gaurav’s death, did they put it on the front page next to the Iran-Israel story?

Hell no.

They shoved it all the way back to page 24, in a narrow blink-and-you’ll-miss-it column. Two people holding up alcoholic beverages got more attention on that same page – a tasteless move considering Gaurav was inebriated and ill at the time he was assaulted by SAPOL thugs.

Gaurav’s death didn’t even make page 3. To see what kind of breaking world news makes page 3 of The Advertiser, here’s trashy actress Liz Hurley posing in her ‘birthday suit’ in its June 12 edition.

A trashy 60-year-old celebrity from overseas gets page 3 coverage for no other reason than she posed naked in a photo few of us wanted to see, but when a man dies right here in Adelaide after being violently assaulted by SAPOL thugs, the story is hidden on page 24 next to the fold.

Which story, then, made front page on The Advertiser’s 14 June 2025 edition?

Why, a tear-jerking story about a SAPOL cop who died OVER FIVE YEARS AGO.

When high-ranking SAPOL cop Joanne Shanahan was killed in a vehicle accident on 25 April 2020, her death received a flood of media attention. The kind that other fatal accident victims who aren’t cops or  cop’s children rarely receive.

Lo and behold, out of nowhere, the late SAPOL officer not only gets front page coverage again, but a double-page spread in the very same edition where Gaurav gets a narrow column buried deep in the paper with a title that doesn’t even mention his name.

We have no doubt the news of Joanne Shanahan’s death was a heart-breaking moment for her husband and children. The death of any loved one is always a heart-breaking moment.

The Advertiser mysteriously forgot Gaurav’s wife and her two young children are going through this gut-wrenching ordeal right now. Instead, it mysteriously remembered the 5-year-old Joanne Shanahan death and decided it was so important it had to be pushed back to the forefront of public consciousness – while Gaurav was pushed back to page 24.

SAPOL and The Advertiser, we know very well what you’re doing. You’ve colluded to downplay the extremely serious Gaurav incident, and revived the Joanne Shanahan story as a PR exercise to divert sympathy and goodwill back to South Australia Police.

Save your fake SAPOL and Murdoch Press moral outrage at what we’ve just said, you know very well it’s true.