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By Situation Theatre 24/4/2020
The same progressive legend in his own lunchbox, who continued all the worst aspects of Abbott’s climate policy, is also a passionate renewable energy advocate.
In 2013, during the federal election campaign, Malcolm Turnbull announced the Coalition’s visionary policy of replacing Labor’s NBN plan for fast fibre with near obsolete copper. He did so at the Murdoch-owned Fox headquarters, a policy which just so happened to benefit Murdoch’s Foxtel monopoly by harming competitors like Netflix and other sports streaming apps.
In 2017, the Turnbull Government scrapped the two out of three rule, which prevented media moguls owning television, newspapers, and radio stations in the same market, along with other controls on media ownership.
Since then, Murdoch’s Sky News made a deal with WIN Television, the “world’s largest privately-owned regional television network”, reaching 5.2 million viewers across six Australian states. The deal sees “the WIN network broadcasting a range of Sky New programming 24 hours a day”, and according to The Guardian, “it’s likely another deal will follow for city markets. That will give Murdoch the means to turn Sky into the Australian equivalent of Fox News”.
In 2020, Turnbull is attacking Murdoch for exercising too much control over our democracy.
Gosh Malcolm, if only you had a position of power to act in accordance with your deeply held principles eh mate?