[Marxism] The Australian newspaper

[Ggregray@xxxxxxx]

Just to add to Louise's characterisation of The Australian it might help to
know that its is the very special product of Rupert Murdoch and owned by his
News Corporation which also owns the Fox Network including the biased and
unbalanced Fox News  and the London Times and etc etc etc.
The Australian was founded in 1964 and had a slight maverick flavour for some
years -e.g. opposing the Vietnam War -in a limited way.
It has generally tended to become more and more conservative and
reactionary-it is now a strong supporter of the right wing Howard Liberal 
Government and
strongly supports the phony war on terror and the neo-liberal expression of the
domination of the world economy by imperialism.
Murdoch himself has demonstrated that he is a model global capitalist by
junking his Australian citizenship when it interfered with his plans to expand
further into the US markets.  A couple of years ago he took his globalisation a
step further by expatriating his company to the New York stock exchange.
A crude but useful rule of thumb is that if The Australian is for it we're
against it.
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