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Factional warlord. Backroom operator. Kingmaker. Yet on politics’ biggest night, I was an observer

‘After that outburst, I became a marked man. Things would never be quite as good for me again.’

Crikey

ABC denies holding emergency talks after Laura Tingle’s ‘racist country’ comments criticised in Murdoch press

Tingle says Australia is a ‘racist country’ in response to question at Sydney writers’ festival about Peter Dutton’s immigration policy

The Guardian - AU

Anatomy of a Sky News headlines: What happens behind the scenes at News Corp?

Hard news headlines are often constructed with three standard features. Sky News frequently trashes these conventions.

Crikey

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ABC warns staff of agenda-driven criticism after News Corp pounces on Aboriginal land comment

Newsroom director decries The Australian’s ‘constant’ swipes at individual ABC employees. Plus: a mushroom misstep

The Guardian - AU

Grace Tame’s treatment by the Murdoch press boosts push for royal commission

Crikey readers warmly applaud the words written by the campaigner, author and survivor of child sexual abuse, saying her story is a ‘striking call to arms’.

Crikey

ABC chief says Stan Grant unfairly attacked by the Australian in story about ‘altercation’ with colleague

David Anderson says the story, about an incident in ABC headquarters, was an internal matter and ‘not in the public interest’

The Guardian - AU

‘Freedom has never been cheap’: the Washington neocon driving Australia’s defence moves

US Republican Congressman Mike Gallagher is a man on a mission, and he has Australia directly in his sights.

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A timeline of The Sun’s reporting on BBC veteran Huw Edwards

Veteran BBC presenter Huw Edwards is in hospital after UK tabloid The Sun levelled serious allegations against him. Where does the saga fit in the decades of enmity between Murdoch’s UK papers and the BBC?

Crikey

Harry not criticising queen over hacking deal with Murdoch's UK group, court told

Prince Harry is not criticising his grandmother, the late Queen Elizabeth, or Britain's royal family over a "secret agreement" with Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper arm, his lawyer told London's High Court on Wednesday.

Reuters

Murdochs call out ‘Trumpty Dumpty’ — but who is going to fall?

Murdoch media is energetically kicking former president Trump while he’s down. But have they created a monster too big to fail?

Crikey

Is Donald Trump really in trouble? What the Republican blame game over the midterm elections suggests about 2024

While counting continues to decide the balance of power after the midterm elections, Republicans are openly lamenting how the predicted "red wave" turned into more of a puddle — and many are pointing the finger of blame directly at Donald Trump.

ABC News

Neighbours begins long kiss goodbye as vintage TV soapie finally exits the airwaves

Intense media blitz surrounds final episodes of the 37-year-old program, but in death comes new life. Plus: Sarah Ferguson’s doppelgänger

The Guardian - AU

Why did the Daily Mail support Johnson long after other press allies turned their backs?

A newspaper that sees itself as a bastion of middle England morality should have been the first to ask hard questions of a doomed leader, says Guardian columnist Jane Martinson

The Guardian - UK

CCC report concludes Murdoch University livestock manager put biosecurity at 'serious risk'

The Corruption and Crime Commission finds "serious misconduct" by Murdoch University livestock manager, which put Australia's biosecurity at risk.

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Murdoch University axes plan for Perth CBD campus and pulls out of City Deal project

Murdoch University scraps a planned $250 million inner-city vertical campus that had been a central plank of the Perth City Deal, with the Premier saying "they couldn't make it work".

The Guardian - AU

How Australia’s electoral system allowed voters to finally impose a ceasefire in the climate wars

Preferential voting opened a pathway for independents to bypass the right’s hyperpartisan approach to climate policy

Crikey

‘It was vitriolic; it was nasty’: Holmes à Court on News Corp, the Coalition’s PR team

Climate 200 founder Simon Holmes à Court speaks to David Hardaker about the teal independents, the Murdoch machine, and the state of Australian democracy.

Crikey

A heated issue

Good morning, early birds. The Morrison government’s plan for climate action will lead to nearly 4 degrees of global heating according to analysis, and Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and opponent Monique Ryan went head-to-head in a fiery debate yesterday. It’s the news you need to know, with Emma Elsworthy.

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News Corp’s new youth site patronises young people who just want good journalism

The Oz, the new Murdoch-owned youth site run by the Australian, insults the intelligence of its intended audience.

The Guardian - UK

Piers Morgan Uncensored review – a bad Jeremy Clarkson tribute act … with added Trump

The egotist-in-chief returns to TV promising an ‘island of sanity’ in ‘a world gone mad.’ But he’ll need to do way worse than this weak opener with Donald Trump to make his new gig a hit

The Conversation

Is News Corp following through on its climate change backflip? My analysis of its flood coverage suggests not

Several months ago, Australia’s Murdoch media news outlets launched a new climate change campaign advocating a path toward net-zero emissions by 2050. The launch included a 16-page wraparound supplement in all of its tabloids supporting the need for climate action.

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