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How Australia Is Trying To Cure Its Murdoch Cancer Imagine if the toxic nature of Rupert Murdoch media s lies and bullying became so overpowering in America that a bipartisan movement sprang up against it. Imagine if former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush came together to demand a Congressional inquiry into Fox News and the danger Murdoch poses to our democracy. That s what recently happened in Australia, when former Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull occupying different parts of the political spectrum joined forces to denounce the Murdoch media cancer that s eating the country. They re urging the government to take steps to diversify media ownership and to break up the dangerous coalition that now exists between right-wing politicians and the Murdoch press, which serves as an unaccountable, but extremely powerful, entity in Australian politics. ....
Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch (Image: EPA/Andrew Gombert) Last week, in New York, we learned just how rich the Trump and Brexit years have made the Murdoch family. And in Sydney we (and Malcolm Turnbull) learned how they use the power that money gives them. In the US, Forbes magazine released their annual billionaires list, demonstrating (as Australia’s rich list did just last month) what a lovely pandemic it’s been if you’re rich enough. The Murdoch family now sits at number 71, with assets of about $30 billion. Just five years ago when Trump was the outsider US presidential candidate and Brexit a laughed-off distant possibility, the family’s wealth was a more meagre $14.6 billion. ....