Gillard stops Murdoch China TV bid

THE Gillard government has made an unprecedented intervention in an official tender process to stop Sky News Australia, partly owned by Rupert Murdoch, winning a $223 million contract to broadcast Australia's overseas television service.

## The fact News Corp set out to destroy the previous Labor PM over a mining tax on a few billionaires is entirely co-incidental..

..as is the fact News Corp threatened in an editorial in March to "destroy The Greens" who have just taken the balance of power with 10 senators for the next 6 years.