When the Labor leader decided he wouldn’t talk to the US media mogul, he took a decision he knew would have consequences – now he sees them
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In the weeks before the election campaign began, the opposition leader, Bill Shorten, turned down a standing invitation to meet with the US media mogul Rupert Murdoch, whose company, News Corporation, owns 70% of Australia’s newspaper circulation and Foxtel’s 24-hour news channel, Sky.
“News Limited and Mr Murdoch shouldn’t take that as any view on him in particular,” Shorten told the ABC’s 7.30 program in January. “I’ll deal with their local management just as I deal with the local management of the ABC. But my real conversation is not with the rich and powerful in this country.”
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