As The Australian turns 60, the Murdoch dynasty celebrates another year of reshaping Australia in its vision
Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch. ‘News broke that Rupert Murdoch was prepared to drive a wedge between his very rich children, by reshaping the family trust to ensure News Corp’s aggressive politics are not diluted after his death.’Lachlan and Rupert Murdoch. ‘News broke that Rupert Murdoch was prepared to drive a wedge between his very rich children, by reshaping the family trust to ensure News Corp’s aggressive politics are not diluted after his death.’Most democracies aim to keep it like that.
The grubby little secret of using their media power to advance their own fortunes, could once be tolerated if they played within the rules of fairness, impartiality, and truth. But those principles are now on life support. Sixty years earlier The Australian promised something quite different. To provide “the impartial information and the independent thinking that are essential to the further advance of our country. This paper is tied to no party, to no state and has no chains of any kind.”It was a paper of its time.
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