Malcolm Turnbull has never got on with Rupert Murdoch since he accused Murdoch of helping to oust him from power as the prime minister representing the Liberal Party. In Australia, though called Liberal, that party is center right, and was led by John Howard, Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull (2015-2018), and Scott Morrison (2018-2022) before they finally relinquished power.
Source: The Guardian
Rupert Murdoch has been accused of doing “enormous damage to the democratic world” by a former Australian prime minister, as senior political figures in his country of birth greet news of the mogul stepping down as chair of his media empire with scepticism.
Malcolm Turnbull, a former Liberal prime minister and advocate for a royal commission into the Murdoch media empire, said the media mogul had created an “anger-tainment ecosystem” that had left the US “angrier and more divided than it’s been at any time since the civil war”.
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Turnbull, who served as prime minister from 2015 to 2018, is a longstanding critic of Murdoch and blames News Corp’s promotion of climate denialism in part for his party’s decision to remove him as leader.On Friday Turnbull said that Murdoch left a “hell of a legacy”, arguing that without Fox and News Corp, Britain probably would not have exited the European Union and Donald Trump would not have been president.
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