is a professor at the University of Canberra’s faculty of business, government and law and the author of Political Lives: Australian prime ministers and their biographers.
As the prime minister marks the death of John Laws, other politicians reminisce about how easy it was to manipulate Australia’s most powerful broadcaster, even writing editorials for him to read on air.
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For Donald Trump and the Murdochs, the plan to secure US control of TikTok is a win-win – a social media mouthpiece ahead of the midterms, and for a bargain price.
Having succeeded in ousting his more moderate siblings, the eldest Murdoch son must now consider whether a shift further to the right would increase his empire’s political influence.
The publication of documents detailing Donald Trump’s friendship with the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein have recast the president’s relationship with Rupert Murdoch.
