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Conker players forced to freeze seeds after UK storms bring early fall

About 250 people do battle at Conker World Championships in Northamptonshire on Sunday

The Guardian - UK

Albanese to announce social media age ban

Labor is planning on introducing a minimum age for access to social media, and Clare O’Neil highlights the ‘total despair’ of young people trying to find affordable housing.

Crikey

How do you make a series about Lachlan Murdoch when he won’t participate? We asked the ABC

The ABC has created a three-part Australian Story on Lachlan Murdoch. The first hurdle? He wouldn’t talk.

Crikey

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Frydenberg eyes a comeback

Former treasurer Josh Frydenberg is back in the picture in Kooyong, and a murderer and an attempted murderer were among 25 people released into the community following the High Court’s decision on indefinite detention last year.

Crikey

Nine’s cultural problems have been around since I was there in the 1980s

The culture of power games reported in the wake of the Darren Wick scandal is nothing new at Nine, where they’ve been going on for decades.

Crikey

Canberra's family-run McGlades Jewellers celebrates 85 glittering years

They have diamonds worth tens of thousands to budget-priced trinket boxes.

The Canberra Times

What News Corp AGM’s fine print reveals about pay — and Tony Abbott’s power

Sitting pretty with his multimillion-dollar pay cheque, Lachlan Murdoch wasted no time giving the former PM a powerful gig on Fox Corp’s board.

Crikey

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Coming up for heir: News Corp in uncharted waters with Lachlan Murdoch at the helm

Murdoch Jr does not have the same love for print as father Rupert but newspapers’ influence remains a drawcard for the new boss

The Guardian - AU

Lachlan Murdoch: The heir apparent to father Rupert’s media empire who was groomed for top job from childhood

Lachlan Murdoch was groomed as father Rupert’s successor from childhood, writes Bevan Hurley

The Independent UK

Accountant To The Rich & Famous Has Shared His Advice For Beefing Up Your Lousy Tax Return

A former accountant to an Aussie media mogul has put their money where their mouth is and spilled all their tips and tricks on navigating the treacherous tax season. Allan Mason, who was the former accountant of billionaire Kerry Packer — yes, the father of James Packer, AKA Mariah Carey‘s…

Pedestrian.tv

What’s the Caribbean without its beaches? But the people are losing access to them

Barring public access to beaches and other sites is not a model for development. Transparency and engagement are needed

The Guardian - UK

Kerry Stokes should be held accountable for failing as a guardian of journalism and free speech

It’s scandalous that the Seven Network chairman disregarded his role as a custodian of journalism by launching a legal war against a rival.

Crikey

Treasurer wants energy transition to be his legacy – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Packer donates $7m towards mental health research

Businessman James Packer has been frank about his struggles with mental health while donating $7 million of his fortune towards research. The billionaire

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Marrying Rupert Murdoch is fraught with uncertainty. What we know about his fiancee

News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch is getting married for the fifth time. What we know about his soon-to-be next wife, Ann Lesley Smith.

Crikey

Despite reform push, Labor is still married to the gambling industry

Much-needed reform to Australia’s gambling industry saw positive signs in 2022, yet Labor still has its fingers in the cookie jar.

AAP

Dept stands firm on secret Barangaroo deal

The head of Infrastructure NSW says he has no intention of resigning over delays at the Barangaroo precinct or a secret deal that benefited developers.

The Conversation

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.

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Crikey

Watchdog’s bite muzzled for now

Despite Anthony Albanese vowing to pass legislation for a federal anti-corruption commission this year, the suspension of Parliament after the death of Queen Elizabeth has meant that’s been shelved, plus the queen’s body is now in Edinburgh in stage one of her journey back to London.

Crikey

James Packer to Crikey: I should have driven Sportsbet’s multibillion-dollar rise

What keeps James Packer up at night? Apparently a ‘failing’ that it wasn’t him and Crown that built a now foreign-owned gambling giant.

Crikey

From then to now: the biggest moment in Crikey’s 22-year history

Crikey founder Stephen Mayne has spent two decades taking shots from Australia’s media barons, and praises the ‘crazy-brave’ tactic of taking on Lachlan Murdoch.

Crikey

James Packer does his own spin-doctoring — but he needs to join Twitter

The billionaire is weighing in on all sorts of issues, but if he wants his message out there he should consider learning how to tweet.

The New Daily

Michael Pascoe: Money laundering and corrupt cash in real estate – another item for Labor

There is a lot on Labor’s agenda for fixing, but a place needs to be found ending real estate being used for money laundering and investing corrupt cash.

Crikey

More power to him

PM Anthony Albanese is chasing up whether or not former PM Scott Morrison swore himself into more than three ministries, and another former PM, Malcolm Turnbull, says the whole affair is ‘sinister’.

The Guardian - AU

Nine publisher says he was not contacted by Peter Costello over Nine’s Crown coverage

James Chessell sends email to staff after both he and the Nine chairman were the subject of an email attack by James Packer

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