Wayne Swan lashes out at Murdoch media's 'misuse of power'

Labor’s national president calls News Corp ‘an additional political party hiding behind the pretence of objectivity’

The ALP national president, Wayne Swan, has unleashed on the Murdoch media, characterising the global news enterprise as “an additional political party hiding behind the pretence of objectivity and public interest”.

Swan’s comments follow the furore generated by a Daily Telegraph story about Bill Shorten’s mother, Ann, which moved the Labor leader to tears on the hustings on Wednesday.

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