Superman 1978 : Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor responds to General Zod's question as to what Lex would like as his reward for assisting him : "oh just a little coastal property - Australia"
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This is just a sample of how Rupert Murdoch bought himself a government ( albeit resting on just 30,000 votes and now plunging polls after just 4 months) to do his bidding with every policy announcement now reflecting Rupert's Tweets.

Owning 70% of Australia's media Murdoch pumped these front pages out every day of a 4 week election campaign- and covered the city streets with giant posters of those pages ( after 5 years of a continuing campaign of lies). Other media, rattled by his power repeated every falsehood as though it were actually news : and in this way Murdoch's Man Tony Abbott ( described by a British MP as a "cretin") gained power without presenting one policy - except to say he wouldn't change superb Labor successes- although he has now gone back on those pledges.

Even my conservative friends now worry that a nutter is in charge , put their by the man who has influenced British politics for decades. And why the current hacking trials are more serious than people think: