Journalists are journalists and its there job to write stuff that sells papers, often using there 'imagination' to read between the lines/beef stuff up. Don't get me wrong there are a lot of great journalists out there who write good and interesting articles. Australia is a great country, but the press sucks, really really sucks in some places. So this article really doesn't surprise me.
So yeah we should move on, see them live if you can (you lucky Aussies! I wanna be back in Oz!) and hey listen to the new album

Cheers
Wilich