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Dictators, a ‘love child’ and succession battle: The legal brawls of Australia’s billionaire siblings

Pretty much all of Australia’s richest heirs are having a legal battle at the moment, providing a great deal of evidence of how fabulously weird the fabulously wealthy really are.

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Rupert Murdoch’s succession plan reveals a lot about his empire – and most of it is not pretty

Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to continue controlling his company from beyond the grave would be better labelled Project Hegemony, than Harmony, because it’s designed to cement one sibling’s dominance over the others and shield the business from possible progressive reform.

The Conversation

Watch Hong Kong (not Reno) to understand what News Corp is really up to

News Corp’s Wall Street Journal has sacked a reporter who was elected head of the Hong Kong Journalists Association. In doing so, the company has shown once and for all just which side it’s on.

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Rupert Murdoch’s real succession drama − why the future of his media empire could hinge on a legal effort in Nevada

Conservative media titan Rupert Murdoch is making news again – this time, with a secretive effort to change an irrevocable trust. That trust has important ownership interests in both Fox Corp. and News Corp., so it affects broadcast news as well as The Wall Street Journal and other publications.

The Conversation

Rupert Murdoch goes to war with his children over his media empire

The move by the billionaire news mogul, 93, could have a ‘real, significant impact’ on the global media landscape

The Guardian - US

Rupert Murdoch’s secret succession drama is a warning to rein in the super-rich

Media mogul’s bid to extend rightwing influence beyond the grave must be resisted to the last

The Guardian - UK

Rupert’s legal argument finally drops the facade that News was ever a news business at all

‘In the end, Rupert Murdoch is just another king, on a lonely throne, ruling an empire of cards, scheming, ever scheming, to keep doing so even from the grave.’

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Are Fox and News Corp the only viable business models?

The legal case currently enveloping the Murdochs is about much more than a family spat.

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Rupert Murdoch’s ‘Project Harmony’ shows just how vulnerable Lachlan is

This action by Rupert underlines that no matter Lachlan’s achievements as CEO and successor, his position remains vulnerable.

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Who are the other Murdoch siblings?

Who are James, Elisabeth and Prudence Murdoch, and why is Rupert trying to stop them influence News Corp’s future?

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Rupert is still the most incorrigible manipulator of power in moguldom’s long history

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.

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'Everyone around here is just filthy': border outrage over huge solar farm

The 182,000-panel array will be visible from west Belconnen.

The Canberra Times

News Corp boss grilled over Hitler-Bandt headline as Seven admits failure over Lehrmann’s rent

The Australian was just surfacing ‘differing opinions’ when it made comparison between Greens leader and Hitler, Michael Miller says. Plus: fourth-generation Murdoch logs on

The Guardian - AU

Chad Haga: Gravel racing isn't a transition from road, it's the start of a new career

American reflects on second place in Unbound 200 and his first gravel season so far

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The Independent UK

Rupert Murdoch marries fifth wife Elena Zhukova at 93

The ceremony took place at media mogul’s California vineyard

The Canberra Times

Sunrise star to spend Mother's Day in Canberra

Natalie Barr is looking forward to a very special reunion.

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Rupert Murdoch, Media Mogul, Engaged To Elena Zhukova

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, 92, to marry Elena Zhukova, a retired scientist. Explore Murdoch's vast media empire and personal life.

Newcastle Herald

Loved beyond words: Teralba tragedy leaves two families shattered

The grandmothers have left a hole in the hearts of all who knew them.

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(C)old friends: How Lachlan is leading Murdoch media back to a triumphant Trump

Trump has forced the Murdochs to choose between money and power — and Lachlan has chosen the money.

Newcastle Herald

'We are young men with young families': legal gap for stone victims

Autoimmune conditions of silica dust victims need recognition.

WEKU

Ex-British officials say Murdoch tabloids hacked them to aid corporate agenda

Ex-U.K. cabinet ministers allege Murdoch's tabloids hacked their voicemails for salacious scoops to try to intimidate them from blocking its takeover of a satellite TV firm.

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Dear Lachlan, your campaign against hatred deserves warm support

Lachlan Murdoch has told his journalists to tackle anti-Semitism and hatred wherever it occurs, which is comforting, because there’s a lot of it about.

AAP

A 140km trip for childcare as rural families miss out

A shortage of childcare and early education services across the regions is leaving parents, children and entire communities behind, a national report shows.

The Conversation

Rupert Murdoch's empire was built on a shrewd understanding of how media and power work

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

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Israeli hostage speaks

A freed Israeli hostage, 85, has said her Hamas captors treated her ‘gently’ and with ‘care’, but also that after her painful kidnapping she had ‘been through hell’. And AUKUS discussions with Democrats and Republicans remain ‘productive’, PM Anthony Albanese says.

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