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SYDNEY: The journalist at The Australian who wrote that almost everyone in Australia was appalled at the Albanese government’s mooted changes to superanuation taxation rules has been summarily sacked overnight by none other than Rupert Murdoch himself.
The head of the world’s most powerful media company in history gave the scribe his marching orders via a furious, profanity-laden and lengthy telephone call from New York.
Murdoch’s prompt action followed release of the Newspoll figures overnight that showed 64 per cent of respondents were in favour of Labor’s changes, while only 29 percent were opposed to the government budget bottomline saving measures.
“I will not have anyone working in any of my global newspapers or electronic media platforms who should have instinctively known, as I did from the get-go, that the Labor move would be popular with Australian voters and yet who willfully promulgated misinformation that they knew to be totally false,” Murdoch reportedly shouted down the line as security moved in to evict the hapless former employee.
Murdoch’s swift action is understood to have made other NewsCorp Australia journalists around the nation understandably concerned for their work prospects in the organisation.
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BRISBANE: Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has released a media statement here this morning, saying he would leave it to the people of Australia to judge for themselves how brilliantly eloquent, openly honest and totally statesmanlike his evidence will be today at the Robodebt Royal Commission.
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