On April 1,1995 News Limited raided ARL clubs for players and coaches in a move that started a bitter three-year war and split the code.
It’s a contest that rivals Carlton v Collingwood,only with the odd Nobel Prize thrown in. And it’s been going for 105 years.
With the foreign investment watchdog spending the past three months scrutinising the deal,broadcast rights for AFL,NRL,cricket and Formula 1 could soon be in the hands of a global sports-streaming giant.
Though Prudence and Liz are Rupert Murdoch’s eldest children,their gender meant they were never considered genuine heirs to the throne.
The hit HBO show was said to be based on the dysfunctional Murdoch family,but in a case of life imitating art,the Murdochs began taking cues from their onscreen counterparts.
The media mogul rolled the dice in trying to secure his empire for son Lachlan and has ended up pitting the latter against the collective might of his siblings.
The struggling prime minister has enlisted the help of a serial election winner ahead of what could be a bruising election campaign.
Alleged betrayal by his father,Rupert,has led to James revealing innermost family secrets for the first time.
Rupert Murdoch thought he was going to die as the spectacular failure of his plan for dynastic control of the conservative media group unravelled.
But it wasn’t to face the journalists,despite months of (justified) grumbling from the Canberra press gallery.