Murdoch media – News, Research and Analysis – The Conversation

February 22, 2021

Is Sky News shifting Australian politics to the right? Not yet, but there is cause for alarm

Denis Muller, The University of Melbourne

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd believes Sky News is trying to radicalise Australian politics as Fox News has in the US. There are both alarming signs and mitigating factors.

September 20, 2020

Celebrity, money and power: TVs obsession with the Murdoch family dynasty

Nick Richardson, La Trobe University

As the Murdochs again hit the small screen in the documentary The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty, it’s worth considering: what is our fascination with this family?

The election review is proportionate in the blame it sends Bill Shorten’s way. David Crosling/AAP

November 7, 2019

Nuance and nostalgia: Labor’s election review provides useful insights and inevitable harking back to Hawke

Frank Bongiorno, Australian National University

While the post-mortem is oddly silent on some issues and clearly struggling with others, it nonetheless provides a thoughtful analysis of where the party went wrong in the 2019 election.

‘I may be worried about nothing if the Democratic primary process does its job of whittling down the agenda to something more manageable,’ wrote Swan. Mick Tsikas/AAP

October 10, 2019

Wayne Swan warns US Democrats not to fall into Labor’s trap of overloaded agenda

Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra

Writing in the American progressive journal Democracy, Swan, a former treasurer, warned that the US Democrats could be at risk of the overloaded agenda trap that helped defeat the ALP in May.

Rudd and his wife, Therese Rein, were receiving ALP life memberships at the conference. Lukas Coch/AAP

December 18, 2018

Rudd says Murdoch media is a “political party”

Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra

Rudd told the conference the Coalition had “a very robust” partner in the “Murdoch party” which had an ideology.

Articles on Murdoch media

Displaying all articles