Senator Sarah Hanson-Young is Greens Spokesperson for Communications, Manager of Greens Business in the Senate:
“There are many excellent journalists at News Corp doing fine work and that should not be diminished.
“It is undeniable that Rupert Murdoch and his empire have been a corrosive cancer on democracy here and around the world. History will judge his influence as disastrous for humanity and the planet.
“Decades of climate denialism, phone hacking, political meddling & manipulation, and Fox News’ dangerous culpability for the Jan 6 riots show Rupert Murdoch has been one of the great scourges of the modern age.
“We simply can not let such societal disasters go unchecked and unregulated.
“A Royal Commission that gets to the bottom of what happened; how to ensure it is fixed and how it can never be allowed to happen again, is warranted more now than ever.
