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A right mess: how mining, media and political interests are combining to influence public debate in Australia

Mining billionaire Gina Rinehart is bankrolling the acquisition of a 9.5% stake in Southern Cross Media by Bruce McWilliam, who worked for Murdoch’s News Corp for nine years and is also a former Seven Network executive.

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Joan Lindsay published Picnic at Hanging Rock at 71. Her writing life presents its own mysteries

Brenda Niall’s new book, as its full title announces, is a biographical account of the “hidden life” of novelist Joan Lindsay, best known as the author of Picnic at Hanging Rock.

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Rupert Murdoch's empire was built on a shrewd understanding of how media and power work

When businesspeople retire at an advanced age, it seldom makes headlines.

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Does Lachlan have the cojones to take on his father’s empire?

Whereas Rupert is passionate about newspapers, being an inky through and through, Lachlan has displayed relatively little interest in them

Evening Standard

Brian Cox on Rupert Murdoch’s succession plan: ‘the freedom to manipulate’

Succession actor jokes Murdoch may have watched ‘too much’ of the TV series and criticises claim that global media empire is committed to ‘freedom’

The Guardian - AU

The Murdoch story is the endless pursuit of control, power and profit – Rupert’s resignation is unlikely to change that

Despite being deeply ensconced in global media, business and political circles, Rupert Murdoch likes to portray himself as an outsider ‘sticking it’ to the elites

The Guardian - AU

Rupert Murdoch spent 70 years building the world’s most powerful media empire. Now, it enters a new chapter

The Australian-born mogul inherited a regional newspaper from his father before a global expansion saw him became one of the most powerful media executives in history, Bevan Hurley writes

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From the earliest years of his career, the young Rupert Murdoch ruthlessly pursued his interests

Nearly every biographical commentary on Rupert Murdoch notes how he began with a modest inheritance in Adelaide, principally an afternoon newspaper, and built it into a global multimedia empire. Walter Marsh’s book Young Rupert: The Making of the Murdoch Empire has the distinctive strength of knowing Adelaide much better than…

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‘It depends what you call monopoly’: young Rupert Murdoch’s first big television play

The 1958 hearings in which the 27-year-old Murdoch lobbied for his first TV licence offer a glimpse into the global media proprietor he would become

The Guardian - AU

Money, power, influence: How ‘media monsters’ used journalism to cement their empires

Media Monsters, by Sally Young, is indispensable for anyone interested in the dynamics that drive Australian politics.

The New Daily

A reciprocating engine of money, power and influence: how Australia's 'media monsters' used journalism to cement their empires

Carl Sagan said that in order to understand the present, it’s necessary to know the past. Nowhere does this apply with greater force than to the Australian media and its place in the nation’s power structure.

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Rupert Murdoch: how a 22-year-old 'zealous Laborite' turned into a tabloid tsar

In September 1953, Rupert Murdoch arrived in sleepy Adelaide to take up his inheritance of News Limited. He was only 22 and had little experience of working at a newspaper, let alone running one, but his family had inherited a majority stake in the company following the death of Rupert’s…

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The Murdoch family trust: how the scions could battle for control

The proposed Fox-News Corp merger could portend a realignment of the interests of Rupert Murdoch’s children

Financial Times

Attacks on Dan Andrews are part of News Corporation's long abuse of power

Sane people trying to fathom the Herald Sun’s bizarre coverage of Victorian Premier Dan Andrews over the past few days might be helped by some insights from the founding of News Limited, the company on which Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation empire has been built and of which the Herald Sun…

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The first biography of Lachlan Murdoch provides some insights, but leaves important questions unanswered

The title of Paddy Manning’s The Successor: The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan Murdoch tells us what is good and not so good about this biography.

Wales Online

The story of Welsh club rugby's greatest triumph, Phil Bennett's moment of genius and the toilet incident that shocked JJ Williams

Llanelli defeated New Zealand 9-3 exactly 50 years ago - it's a game that is still remembered today

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Murdoch v Crikey highlights how Australia’s defamation laws protect the rich and powerful

Crikey says it has published the correspondence between its lawyers and those of Murdoch in order to show how media power is abused in Australia.

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Murdoch v Crikey highlights how Australia's defamation laws protect the rich and powerful

There is no better example of how Australia’s defamation laws enable the rich and powerful to intimidate their critics than Lachlan Murdoch suing Crikey.com over a comment piece concerning Fox News, Donald Trump and the Washington insurrection of January 6 2021.

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The Guardian - AU

Crikey: small independent news website challenges Lachlan Murdoch to sue it for defamation

Crikey.com.au issues challenge in newspaper ads, including in the New York Times, after Murdoch issues legal threat over article

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