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'You all seem quite amused by it': Grinning Daniel Andrews is interrupted by a heckler at a press conference who has a VERY pointed message for the Victorian Premier

A grinning Daniel Andrews brushed aside a heckler after they interrupted him during a press conference to tell him how much she loved him and hated Rupert Murdoch. 

The Victorian premier fronted media on Thursday to announce the latest five-day snap lockdown across the state.

Mr Andrews was addressing a question posed to him by a journalist when the heckler shouted over him. 

'Love your work Dan,' the heckler yelled. 'Thank you health care workers, and f*** Murdoch.' 

Mr Andrews grinned at the heckler before responding: 'I'm not sure whether, um... I didn't hear the last bit of that.

A grinning Daniel Andrews brushed aside a heckler after they interrupted him during a press conference to tell him how much they loved him

A grinning Daniel Andrews brushed aside a heckler after they interrupted him during a press conference to tell him how much they loved him

'Love your work Dan,' the heckler yelled. 'Thank you health care workers, and f*** Murdoch'

'Love your work Dan,' the heckler yelled. 'Thank you health care workers, and f*** Murdoch'

'You all seem amused by that.'

Mr Andrews quickly brushed off the comment before carrying on with the press conference. 

NewsCorp has come under fire in the past for its coverage of the Victorian premier during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Its publications, which include The Australian, Daily Telegraph and Sky News, have been critical of his hardline tactics.

Mr Andrews has plunged the state into lockdown five times since the start of 2020, forcing businesses to close up shop - some never reopening -  and costing the state billions of dollars in revenue.

In September, Sky News published the headline: ''Dictator Dan' is trying to build a 'Covid Gulag'.' 

The Australian also published a column urging the public to, 'Force Daniel Andrews to bear the costs of the damage he wreaks.'    

Its coverage drew criticism from media and politics expert Emeritus Professor Rodney Tiffen who labelled it an 'unrelentingly critical and negative campaign'.

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd ramped up the attacks on NewsCorp after launching a petition demanding a royal commission into Murdoch and his media empire in October 2020.  

Mr Rudd, who came to power with Murdoch's backing in 2007, accused the media giant on playing favouritism with the Liberal and National parties.

Mr Andrews has plunged the state into lockdown five times since the start of 2020, forcing businesses to close up shop - some never reopening - and costing the state billions of dollars in revenue (pictured, Melbourne resident walking a deserted street during the latest lockdown on Friday)

Mr Andrews has plunged the state into lockdown five times since the start of 2020, forcing businesses to close up shop - some never reopening - and costing the state billions of dollars in revenue (pictured, Melbourne resident walking a deserted street during the latest lockdown on Friday)

NewsCorp publications, which include The Australian, Daily Telegraph and Sky News, have been critical of his hardline tactics (pictured, worker wearing face mask in locked-down Melbourne on Friday)

NewsCorp publications, which include The Australian, Daily Telegraph and Sky News, have been critical of his hardline tactics (pictured, worker wearing face mask in locked-down Melbourne on Friday)

'In Queensland, a state which swings federal election results, virtually every single newspaper is owned by Murdoch,' he said.

'When this mob, this syndicate, this protection racket for the Liberal and National Party backs the Liberal and National Party 95 per cent of time, it becomes a cancer on the democracy.' 

Speaking at a parliamentary federal inquiry into media diversity in February 2021, Mr Rudd claimed Murdoch only cared about money, minimum regulation and power. 

He claimed the newspapers spread a 'culture of fear' that were the product of a media tycoon who held 'enormous influence' over the political future of the country.

Mr Rudd said politicians were afraid of Murdoch and of facing a 'systematic campaign', such as the one against former prime minister Julia Gillard, which 'bordered on misogyny'.

Mr Rudd was deposed as leader by Ms Gillard in 2010 before regaining the prime ministership from her in 2013.

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