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Rupert Murdoch remains the mogul’s mogul, a brutal practitioner of the darkest arts of making money at all costs. Those dark arts now include a legal battle against three of his own children, in public.

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

Donald Trump will face a federal criminal trial in Washington DC on March 4 2024, years earlier than he’d wanted, and Australia’s whistleblower protection laws ‘have not successfully protected a single person since their inception’.

The beguiling impact of stories — of power lust, of patriotism — has always left an indelible mark on the Murdoch family, and on the world as a whole.

The ABC and News Corp aren’t merely competitors — they are motivated by contradictory ideologies around national identity.

Once upon a time the Murdoch dynasty was the great disrupter of the world’s media. Those times they are a’changing.

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…

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

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