76-602: Defunct Defunct Andrew Bolt (born 26 September 1959) is an Australian conservative social and political commentator. He has worked at the News Corp -owned newspaper company The Herald and Weekly Times (HWT) for many years, for both The Herald and its successor, the Herald Sun . His current roles include blogger and columnist at the Herald Sun and host of television show The Bolt Report each weeknight. In Australia, Bolt
152-635: A broadsheet , gave News Limited a new respectability as a quality newspaper publisher, and also greater political influence since The Australian has always had an elite readership, if not always a large circulation. Also in 1964, News Limited made Rupert Murdoch's first overseas newspaper investment – a 29.57 percent stake in the Wellington Publishing Company, subsequently part of Independent Newspapers Limited , INL, New Zealand's largest publishing group. The News Limited holding in INL fluctuated over
228-498: A 2020 report showed that only 25% of news consumed is obtained from print newspapers, with TV being the top source, online second, and social media third. By early 2021, News Corp had either dropped, or made online only, many of its local newspapers . At that time, it was publishing fewer than 20 print newspapers, and around 85 online titles. In 2016, News Corp commanded 65% of national and capital city daily (print) newspapers. However, its news website news.com.au ranks second after
304-445: A chairman and major shareholder for both companies. On 9 August 2013 it was announced that Julian Clarke would replace Kim Williams as the CEO of News Corp Australia. On 9 June 2015, it was announced that Peter Tonagh would replace Julian Clarke as the CEO, with Michael Miller to be appointed to the role of Executive Chairman. Peter Tonagh and Michael Miller's first day in their new roles
380-428: A charitable donation". Bolt has spoken out against the changing racial demographics of Australia . In August 2018, Bolt wrote an article titled "Tidal wave of new tribes dividing us" in which he argues that a "tidal wave" of migrants are swamping Australia, forming enclaves and "changing our culture". He also said "Immigration is becoming colonisation, turning this country from a home into a hotel." This article prompted
456-400: A child abuser." He also stated that "In my opinion, this is our own OJ Simpson case , but in reverse. A man was found guilty not on the facts but on prejudice. ... Cardinal George Pell has been falsely convicted of sexually abusing two boys in their early teens. That's my opinion, based on the evidence." He went on to say that the successful prosecutions case was "flimsy" and that the conviction
532-436: A compendium of his political essays Left, Right, Left . Between 1989 and 1997 Manne edited the conservative magazine Quadrant , resigning when his editorial policies diverged from the views of the magazine's management committee. He had originally been appointed based on his previous anti-communist publications and his reputation as a conservative. Some people associated with Quadrant during his editorship believed that he
608-523: A contributor to Sky News Live . The Bolt Report subsequently resumed on Sky News Live in May 2016 as a nightly format. He has also appeared on the ABC television show Q&A and ABC Radio National's Late Night Live with Phillip Adams . In June 2003, Bolt published an article criticising Andrew Wilkie in which he quoted from a classified intelligence document written by Wilkie as an intelligence analyst for
684-406: A documented list of 250 names. Bolt stated that, prior to a debate, Manne provided him with a list of 12 names that he was able to show during the debate was "a list of people abandoned, saved from abuse or voluntarily given up by their parents"; and that during the actual debate, Manne produced a list of 250 names without any details or documentation as to their circumstances. Bolt also stated that he
760-613: A few years it had become the leading local recording company . He also bought a television station in Wollongong , New South Wales, hoping to use it to break into the Sydney television market, but found himself frustrated by Australia's cross-media ownership laws, which prevented him from owning both a major newspaper and television station in the same city. Since then he has consistently lobbied, both personally and through his papers, to have these laws changed in his favour. This occurred in 2006 when
836-523: A marginal seats guide written by a senior business manager for internal use. It evidences a corporate strategy to target marginal seats at the 2004 election . Some of the documents appeared on Media Watch . Murdoch wanted a way to influence politics in his native land. He saw a way to do that through the News Corp publication The Australian . The national daily has been used to support Murdoch's political interests over time, such as John McEwen with
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#1732891266009912-480: A new blog to be published on The Monthly ' s website." Manne's departure as chairman resulted in the editorial board's dissolution, with Monthly editor Ben Naparstek announcing, "We're not going to have one any more." Manne's blog, entitled Left, Right, Left , had its first post on 12 September. Manne is also Chair of the Australian Book Review , a board member of The Brisbane Institute , and
988-406: A new competition, sparking the mid-1990s Super League war . On 12 July 2006, News Limited announced the creation of a new division, News Digital Media, to manage the operations of the news site news.com.au; the online marketplace sites, carsguide.com.au , truelocal.com.au and careerone.com.au as well as the partly owned realestate.com.au, foxsports.com.au and related activities involving Foxtel and
1064-503: A press council complaint. Bolt has also spoken approvingly of Jean Raspail's book The Camp of the Saints , a novel depicting Europe being swamped by Asian immigrants. In 2019, Bolt defended Cardinal George Pell , who at that time had been convicted of child sexual abuse (he was later acquitted by the High Court ), saying that "I am not a Catholic or even a Christian. He is a scapegoat, not
1140-492: A professor in politics and culture until retirement in 2012. He is Vice-Chancellor's Fellow and Convenor of the Ideas & Society Program at La Trobe. Since 1983, he has been married to journalist and social philosopher Anne Manne (née Robinson). He has two daughters, including Kate Manne , a philosopher and an associate professor at Cornell University . Manne's broad interests include 20th-century European politics (including
1216-478: A rehabilitation program. The jury found that what Bolt wrote was untrue, unfair and inaccurate, but cleared him of malice . Bolt emerged from the Supreme Court of Victoria after the jury verdict, stating that his column had been accurate and that the mixed verdict was a victory for free speech . His statement outside the court was harshly criticised by Supreme Court Justice Bernard Bongiorno, who later overturned
1292-462: A third apparently filmed the attack. Melbourne Antifa , a self described "anti-fascism" activist group, appeared to claim a connection in the incident on Facebook, posting that Bolt attacked "some of our family in solidarity ... while they were protesting today". Video footage of the assault on Bolt was described as 'alarming', with Bolt saying he was "sick of being targeted for his conservative beliefs and would pursue his attackers for justice and demand
1368-559: A web-only forum in which readers could offer comments, feedback and questions in response to his columns. He posted some of these comments on the Herald Sun website. The forum changed to a more conventional blog format in July 2006. Bolt co-hosted a daily radio show, Breakfast with Steve Price and Andrew Bolt , on the former MTR 1377 . He appeared weekly on radio station 2GB in Sydney for The Clash with union leader Paul Howes and as of 2016
1444-458: A wider agenda by distributing the keys to rival set top box operators and seeking to obtain phone records of suspected rivals. The emails were from the hard drive of NDS European chief, Ray Adams. It was also revealed that Australian Federal police were working with UK police to investigate hacking by News Corp. News Corp Australia operates 170 newspaper and magazine titles in Australia , including
1520-605: Is a controversial public figure, who has frequently been accused of abrasive demeanour, racist views and inappropriate remarks on various political and social issues. Bolt was born in Adelaide , his parents being newly-arrived Dutch immigrants. He spent his childhood in remote rural areas, including Tarcoola, South Australia , while his father worked as a school teacher and principal. After completing secondary school at Murray Bridge High School, Bolt travelled and worked overseas before returning to Australia and beginning an arts degree at
1596-410: Is a regular guest four nights a week on Nights with Steve Price , which is broadcast on 2GB and Melbourne ' s 3AW , 4BC Brisbane and network stations across Australia. From 2001 to 2011, he was a regular guest on Insiders . Bolt left Insiders in May 2011 to host his own weekly program, The Bolt Report , on Network Ten . The Bolt Report ended on Ten in 2015 and, in 2016, Bolt became
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#17328912660091672-799: Is a subsidiary of News Corp Australia. It was involved in Nationwide News Pty Ltd v Wills in the High Court of Australia in 1992. In 2018 it was ordered by the Federal Court to pay damages to actor Geoffrey Rush after The Daily Telegraph published a front-page article alleging that Rush engaged in "inappropriate behaviour" on stage with actress Eryn Jean Norvill during the Sydney Theatre Company 's 2015 production of King Lear . Murdoch's desire for dominant cross-media ownership manifested in early 1961 when he bought an ailing Australian record label, Festival Records , and within
1748-466: Is an Australian media conglomerate and wholly owned subsidiary of the American News Corp . The group's interests span newspaper and magazine publishing, Internet, subscription television in the form of Foxtel , market research , DVD and film distribution, and film and television production trading assets. News Pty Limited (formerly News Limited ) is the holding company of the group. Until
1824-415: Is an example of the adversarial arguments on the issue. There is focus on individual examples as evidence for or against the existence of a policy, and little or no analysis of other documentary evidence such as legislative databases showing how the legal basis for removal varied over time and between jurisdictions, or testimony from those who were called on to implement the policies, which was also recorded in
1900-409: Is no consensual social situation in which it would be OK for an adult to 'hit on' a child. The adult was grooming the child and building an emotional connection so they could do what they wanted to him". The abused school boy later stated that Bolt and Gerard Henderson 's comments made him feel "sick" and accused the pair of "trivialising" the assaults. Bolt and Henderson apologised for their comments in
1976-472: Is now known that [Pascoe's] four grandparents were of English descent". Bolt was widely condemned by child protection advocates who stated that he had minimised the seriousness of child sexual grooming during a segment on his Sky News show on 18 February 2020. Bolt repeatedly used the phrase "hit on" to describe the sexual grooming of a year 9 school boy by his athletics coach at St Kevin's College, Melbourne . Child welfare advocate Katrina Lines said "There
2052-520: Is regulated by tests that simply don't apply anywhere else, and in which judges - never, for all their pontifications, friends of free speech - get to do the regulating." Bolt later commented that he believed Justice Bromberg's failed attempt to run for the Labor Party ten years prior had a role in the final decision. On 6 June 2017, Bolt was assaulted in Lygon Street , Melbourne by two masked men, while
2128-601: The Bringing Them Home report. A 2008 review of legal cases claims it is difficult for Stolen Generation claimants to challenge what was written about their situation at the time of removal. In 2002, magistrate Jelena Popovic was awarded $ 246,000 damages for defamation after suing Bolt and the publishers of the Herald Sun over a 13 December 2000 column in which he claimed that she had "hugged two drug traffickers she let walk free". Popovic stated that she had in fact shaken their hands to congratulate them on having completed
2204-457: The Herald Sun ) as well as large stakes in several other newspaper publishers. News Limited went on to acquire the remaining shares of Brisbane's Queensland Newspapers (owner of The Courier-Mail ), Adelaide's Advertiser Newspapers (owner of The Advertiser ) and Hobart's Davies Brothers (owner of The Mercury ). In 1991, News Limited spun off its longtime magazine house, Southdown Press , as Pacific Magazines and Printing , and sold
2280-608: The Racial Discrimination Act 1975 . They sought an apology, legal costs, and a gag on republishing the articles and blogs, and "other relief as the court deems fit". They did not seek damages. On 28 September 2011, Justice Mordecai Bromberg found Bolt to have contravened section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act . The case was controversial. Bolt described the decision as a "terrible day for free speech" in Australia and said it represented "a restriction on
2356-604: The ABC News website on visitor count, and its individual newspaper websites do not match several digital-only ones. In December 2020, all of News Corp's news websites reached 1.2 million fewer readers than those owned by Nine Entertainment . The company owns just one television news outlet, Sky News Australia , which does not have a large audience on TV; however, its Facebook posts are shared prolifically, and its subscribers on YouTube , by 2021, not only far outnumbered those of Channel 7 and Channel 9 but had surpassed ABC News. In 2018
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2432-573: The Brisbane Broncos NRL team. A parliamentary petition initiated by former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for a Royal Commission investigating the diversity and integrity of print media, focused primarily on News Corp, raised more than 500,000 signatures in November 2020. Before 2010 News Corp Australia media was more politically flexible, but have become much more rigid as Lachlan Murdoch’s influence at
2508-796: The Mirror proved crucial to his success, allowing him to challenge the dominance of his two main rivals in the Sydney market, the Fairfax Newspapers group, which published the hugely profitable The Sydney Morning Herald , and the Consolidated Press group, owned by Sir Frank Packer , which published the city's leading tabloid paper, The Daily Telegraph . In 1964, News Limited made its next important advance when it established The Australian , Australia's first national daily newspaper, based initially in Canberra and later in Sydney. The Australian ,
2584-673: The National Party of Australia and Gough Whitlam with the Australian Labor Party . According to the Finkelstein Review of Media and Media Regulation, in 2011 the group accounted for 23% of the newspaper titles in Australia. As of 2021 , it owns seven of the country's 12 national or capital city daily (print) newspapers (that is, 58 per cent; excludes weekend papers). In the capital cities of Adelaide , Brisbane , Darwin , and Hobart , there are no other print dailies. However
2660-553: The New York Stock Exchange . On 28 June 2013, News Corporation was split into two separate companies. Murdoch's newspaper interests became News Corp , which was the new parent company of News Limited. The group adopted the new News Corp Australia name following the listing of the new News Corp on 1 July 2013. News Limited was established in 1923 by James Edward Davidson and funded by the Collins Group mining empire for
2736-1309: The Office of National Assessments . It was claimed, but never proven, that someone in Foreign Minister Alexander Downer 's office had leaked the document to Bolt. A spokesperson for the Australian Federal Police said that they did not have any evidence to identify the culprit. Bolt has frequently clashed with Robert Manne , Professor of Politics at La Trobe University , about the Stolen Generation . Bolt has said that there were no large-scale removals of children "for purely racist reasons". After Bolt challenged Manne to "name just 10" children stolen for racial reasons, Manne replied with 50 names, which Bolt in response said included children rescued from sexual abuse and removed for other humanitarian reasons. Manne argued that Bolt and others were engaged in historical denialism despite "a mountain of documentary evidence and eyewitness testimony". Bolt noted many instances of contemporary Aboriginal children being left "in grave danger that we would not tolerate for children of any other race because we are so terrified of
2812-683: The University of Adelaide . Dropping out of university he took up a cadetship with The Age , a Melbourne broadsheet newspaper . His roles at The Age included sports writer, prior to joining The Herald . His time as a reporter included a period as the newspaper's Asia correspondent, based first in Hong Kong and later in Bangkok . He worked for the Hawke government on two election campaigns. Bolt has had various roles on numerous TV networks, radio stations and in
2888-446: The "foundation stone" of News Limited (and News Corporation). Over the next few years, Murdoch gradually established himself as one of the most dynamic media proprietors in Australia, quickly expanding his holdings by acquiring a string of daily and suburban newspapers in most capital cities, including the Sydney afternoon paper, The Daily Mirror , as well as a small Sydney-based recording company, Festival Records . His acquisition of
2964-460: The 'stolen generations' myth." Bolt has questioned the very existence of the Stolen Generation. Bolt stated that it is a "preposterous and obscene" myth and that there was actually no policy in any state or territory at any time for the systematic removal of "half-caste" Aboriginal children. Robert Manne responded that Bolt did not address the documentary evidence demonstrating the existence of
3040-583: The Australian division of News Corp has not entirely escaped scandal with allegations in 2012 that News Corp subsidiary, News Datacom Systems (NDS) had used hackers to undermine pay TV rivals around the world, including Australia. Some of the victims of the alleged hacking, such as Austar were later taken over by News Corp and others such as Ondigital later went bust. NDS had originally been set up to provide security to News Corp's pay TV interests but emails obtained by Fairfax Media revealed they had also pursued
3116-570: The Federal Court against Bolt and the Herald Sun over two posts on Bolt's blog. The nine sued over posts titled "It's so hip to be black", "White is the New Black" and "White Fellas in the Black". The articles suggested it was fashionable for "fair-skinned people" of diverse ancestry to choose Aboriginal racial identity for the purposes of political and career clout. The applicants claimed the posts breached
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3192-510: The High Court. During the interview, Bolt asked Pell if he felt ashamed of the way the Catholic church dealt with the ongoing sex abuse crisis . Pell replied that he did and described the crisis as a "cancer", also stating that failures for the church to act still haunted him. Pell said he didn't commit the alleged Melbourne sex abuse and didn't know why the accuser testified against him. He suggested
3268-570: The Holocaust), Communism, and Australian politics . He has undertaken research in areas such as censorship, antisemitism , asylum seekers and mandatory detention , Australia's involvement in the Iraq War , the Stolen Generations , and the " history wars " of the 1990s. Manne has aligned at various times within the Australian political scene from left to right, then back to left again; he titled
3344-541: The Liberal-National Coalition government, having gained control of both houses of the Australian Parliament, introduced reforms to cross-media ownership and foreign media ownership laws. The laws came into effect in early 2007, with further changes in 2017 abolishing 'two out of three' restrictions that had previously prevented news companies from owning newspaper, radio, and television services within
3420-611: The News Corp Australia digital network. In 2000 John Hartigan was appointed Chief Executive Officer, replacing Lachlan Murdoch . and added chairman to his role in 2005. During his time in the roles, he presided over a number of controversies, included Eatock v Bolt , the court case following News Ltd journalist Andrew Bolt breaching the Racial Discrimination Act , and an unfair dismissal case brought by former Herald Sun editor Bruce Guthrie . On 30 November 2011, Hartigan left News Ltd, and owner Rupert Murdoch took on
3496-739: The Noble Savage… the thrill of the superstitious". In an earlier article in the Griffith Review (2012, following Eatock v Bolt ) titled "Andrew Bolt's Disappointment" (also reproduced in Salt: Selected Stories and Essays ), Pascoe had suggested that he and Bolt could "have a yarn" together, without rancour, because "I think it's reasonable for Australia to know if people of pale skin identifying as Aborigines are fair dinkum ". He described how and why his Aboriginal ancestry – and that of many others – had allegedly been buried. In early 2020,
3572-581: The Paper . His book was widely discussed and cited. Among Manne's other books are The New Conservatism in Australia (1982), In Denial: The Stolen Generations and the Right (2001), and Do Not Disturb (2005). He edited the 2003 anthology, Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of Aboriginal History , as a rebuttal to Keith Windschuttle 's claims disputing there was genocide against Indigenous Australians and guerrilla warfare against British settlement on
3648-532: The Stolen Generations and that this is a clear case of historical denialism . Bolt then challenged Manne to produce ten cases in which the evidence justified the claim that children were "stolen" as opposed to having been removed for reasons such as neglect, abuse, abandonment, etc. He argued that Manne did not respond and that this was an indication of unreliability of the claim that there was policy of systematic removal. In reply, Manne stated that he supplied
3724-492: The accuser may have been 'used'. In July 2019, Bolt made comments about Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg in which he questioned the legitimacy of her views on climate breakdown due to Thunberg's autism . "I have never seen a girl so young and with so many mental disorders treated by so many adults as a guru", wrote Bolt. He went on to question why such leaders "treat a young and strange girl with such awe and even rapture". The comments were widely seen as ignorant. Later in
3800-421: The article, Bolt went on to describe Thunberg's younger sister as displaying "a spectacular range of mental issues". Thunberg responded to the article on Twitter, saying "I am indeed 'deeply disturbed' about the fact that these hate and conspiracy campaigns are allowed to go on and on and on just because we children communicate and act on the science. Where are the adults?" Author Bruce Pascoe grew up thinking he
3876-727: The company has grown - as of 2024, The Australian has endorsed the Liberal Party at each of the past five federal elections, while none of the four daily metros have endorsed Labor since at least 2010. In the wake of the News International phone hacking scandal in the United Kingdom, in July 2011 News Limited announced a review of all payments in the previous three years. On 22 July it was reported that two retired Victorian Supreme Court judges, Frank Vincent AO QC and Bernard Teague AO, were appointed to act as independent assessors of
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#17328912660093952-492: The company's newspapers and the Australian versions of Fox Interactive Media sites Myspace and IGN. Chairman and chief executive of News Limited, John Hartigan , announced the appointment of Richard Freudenstein as chief executive of the division. In February 2018, News Corp Australia announced a partnership with Taboola to launch an integrated native content creation, booking and distribution platform. The Taboola Feed will be implemented on desktop, mobile, web and in-app across
4028-565: The company's sites included news.com.au , Business Spectator and Eureka Report, Kidspot.com.au, taste.com.au, and homelife.com.au. It had a 55% stake in carsguide.com.au , which was sold in 2016, a share in REA Group that operates realestate.com.au , as well as websites for most newspaper and magazine titles. The company's other Australian assets include Australian News Channel , 65% ownership of subscription television provider Foxtel , (which in turn owns Fox Sports Australia ) and shares in
4104-457: The conduct of the review and also assess the outcome. The editorial and financial review concluded in early November and found no evidence of phone hacking or payments to public officials, with Vincent and Teague declaring that the review process did not bring ".....to light any systemic issues with respect to the making of payments to third parties and any substantial amounts paid to individuals in respect of illegitimate activities." Despite this
4180-426: The continent. Contributors included Henry A. Reynolds , who writes on frontier conflict; and Lyndall Ryan , whose book The Aboriginal Tasmanians is one of the main targets of Windschuttle's work. Manne was Chairman of the editorial board of The Monthly , a national magazine of politics, society and the arts, from February 2006 until his resignation on 18 August 2011. He wanted to focus on his writing, "including
4256-438: The damages awarded were significantly influenced by Bolt's "disingenuous" comments he had made outside court and the Herald Sun' s reporting of the jury's decision. The Court of Appeal later reversed the $ 25,000 punitive damages, though it upheld the defamation finding, describing Bolt's conduct as "at worst, dishonest and misleading and at best, grossly careless". In September 2010, nine individuals commenced legal proceedings in
4332-881: The feud escalated when Bolt published a letter provided to him by Josephine Cashman , which resulted in Cashman being dismissed from the Federal Government's Indigenous voice to government 's Senior Advisory Group. In the blog post, Bolt said the letter had been written by a Yolngu elder, denouncing Pascoe and Dark Emu . However the elder asserted that he had not written the letter, and it was also found to have paragraphs lifted from other sources. In 2021, Nyunggai Warren Mundine, stated that genealogists "have produced research that all Pascoe’s ancestry can be traced to England. Pascoe has not addressed this and has been persistently vague about who his Aboriginal ancestors are and where they came from." Historian Geoffrey Blainey stated that "it
4408-628: The following: News Corp holds annual award events to recognise its journalists, known as the News Awards. The top award is known as the Sir Keith Murdoch Award for Excellence in Journalism. Robert Manne Robert Michael Manne AO (born 31 October 1947) is an Emeritus Professor of politics and Vice-Chancellor's Fellow at La Trobe University , Melbourne , Australia. He is a leading Australian public intellectual. Robert Manne
4484-575: The formation of News Corporation in 1979, News Limited was the principal holding company for the business interests of Rupert Murdoch and his family. Since then, News Limited had been wholly owned by News Corporation. In 2004, News Corporation announced its intention to reincorporate to the United States. On 3 November 2004 News Corp Limited ceased trading on the Australian Stock Exchange ; and on 8 November, News Corporation began trading on
4560-411: The former Advertiser magazines, renamed Murdoch Magazines , to Matt Handbury . News Limited re-entered the magazine market in 2000 with the start of News Magazines . In 2006, News Limited returned to being a major player in the Australian magazine business with the purchase of Independent Print Media Group 's FPC Magazines ( Delicious , Super Food Ideas , Vogue Australia ). Nationwide News
4636-789: The founding of The Independent in 1986 as an alternative quality daily. Murdoch made his first acquisition in the United States in 1973, when he purchased the San Antonio News . Soon afterwards he founded the National Star , a supermarket tabloid , and in 1976 he purchased the New York Post . Subsequent acquisitions were undertaken through News Corporation. News Limited expanded its newspaper holdings in 1987 when it acquired The Herald and Weekly Times , which published two newspapers in Melbourne (in 1990 these papers would be combined to form
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#17328912660094712-529: The freedom of all Australians to discuss multiculturalism and how people identify themselves. I argued then and I argue now that we should not insist on the differences between us but focus instead on what unites us as human beings." Jonathan Holmes of the ABC's Media Watch described Justice Bromberg's interpretation of the Racial Discrimination Act , and his application of it to Bolt's columns as "profoundly disturbing" because it reinforced concerns that 18C creates "one particular area of public life where speech
4788-415: The jury's decision, ruling that Bolt had not acted reasonably because he did not seek a response from Popovic before writing the article and, in evidence given during the trial, showed he did not care whether or not the article was defamatory. Justice Bongiorno ordered that Popovic be awarded $ 210,000 in aggravated compensatory damages , $ 25,000 in punitive damages and $ 11,500 interest. The judge stated that
4864-510: The print media. In 2005, Bolt released a compilation of newspaper columns in a book entitled Still Not Sorry: The Best of Andrew Bolt . Bolt's column and articles are published by News Corp Australia in the Herald Sun and his column is published in The Daily Telegraph , The Advertiser in Adelaide, Northern Territory News and The Courier-Mail . In May 2005, Bolt established
4940-606: The purpose of publishing anti-union propaganda, when he purchased the Broken Hill Barrier Miner and the Port Pirie Recorder . He went on to purchase Adelaide's weekly Mail and to found The News , a daily newspaper in Adelaide , South Australia. Sir Keith Murdoch acquired a minority interest in the company in 1949. Following his death in 1952, his son Rupert Murdoch inherited The News , which has been described by Murdoch biographer Bruce Page as
5016-450: The role of chairman, while former Foxtel executive Kim Williams took on the role of CEO. On 28 June 2013, News Corporation split into two publicly traded companies focused on publishing, and broadcasting/media respectively. At this time News Limited was renamed News Corp Australia and became part of the publishing company, News Corp , with Wall Street Journal editor Robert Thomson replacing Rupert Murdoch as CEO. Murdoch remained
5092-484: The same city. In 2001 News Corp Australia had nearly three-quarters of daily metropolitan newspaper circulation and so maintained great influence in Australia. Internal News Corp Australia documents reveal a brazen offer during the 2001 federal election campaign to promote the policies of the Australian Labour Party (ALP) in its best-selling newspapers nationwide for almost A$ 500,000. Other documents include
5168-465: The subsequent days. In 2021, Bolt opposed the News Corp campaign to publicise the effects of climate change as 'rubbish'. Australian Conservation Foundation chief executive, Kelly O'Shanassy, commented that Bolt has "no credibility" on climate change. Bolt is married to Sally Morrell, a fellow columnist at the Herald Sun . They have been married since 1989 and have three children. Bolt is an agnostic . News Corp Australia News Corp Australia
5244-430: The years and was just over 49 percent in 1997. The INL business was bought by News Limited's main rival in 2003 – Fairfax Media . Over the next ten years, as his press empire grew, Murdoch established a hugely lucrative financial base, and these profits were routinely used to subsidise further acquisitions. In his early years of newspaper ownership Murdoch was an aggressive, micromanaging entrepreneur. His standard tactic
5320-641: Was 16 November 2015 Murdoch moved to Britain and rapidly became a major force there after his acquisitions of the News of the World , and The Sun in 1969 and The Times and The Sunday Times in 1981, which he bought from the Thomson family. Both takeovers further reinforced his growing reputation as a ruthless and cunning business operator. His takeover of The Times aroused great hostility among traditionalists, who feared he would take it "downmarket." This led directly to
5396-593: Was British. In his 30s he came to believe that he also has Australian Aboriginal heritage and identified himself as Koori . Bolt objected to this apparent change in Pascoe's heritage following the success of Dark Emu , a book written by Pascoe in 2014 that reexamines colonial accounts of Aboriginal people in Australia , and cites evidence of pre-colonial agriculture , engineering and building construction by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Bolt suggested on his blog that Pascoe had succumbed to "the romance of
5472-451: Was born in Melbourne to parents who were Jewish refugees from Europe. His earliest political consciousness was shaped by this fact and that both sets of grandparents were victims of The Holocaust . He was educated at the University of Melbourne (1966–69) (BA) (Honours thesis 1969, "George Orwell: Socialist Pamphleteer") and the University of Oxford (BPhil). He joined La Trobe University in Melbourne in its early years. He served there as
5548-406: Was subsequently able to identify and ascertain the history of some of those on the list and was unable to find a case where there was evidence to justify the term "stolen". He stated that one of the names on the list of allegedly stolen children was 13-year-old Dolly, taken into state care after being "found seven months pregnant and penniless, working for nothing on a station". The Bolt/Manne debate
5624-610: Was the result of a "vicious" smear that formed part of a "sinister" campaign against the cardinal, adding that Pell was being made to "pay for the sins made by his church". Bolt reiterated his support for Pell when the appeal against Pell's conviction was dismissed in Victoria's Court of Appeal. On 7 April 2020, the High Court of Australia quashed Pell's convictions and determined that verdicts of acquittal be entered in place of all previous verdicts. On 14 April 2020, Bolt interviewed George Pell on Sky News Australia following his acquittal by
5700-512: Was to buy loss-making Australian newspapers and turn them around by introducing radical management and editorial changes and fighting no-holds-barred circulation wars with his competitors. By the 1970s, this power base was so strong that Murdoch was able to acquire leading newspapers and magazines in both London and New York, as well as many other media holdings. To gain subscriptions for its new pay television business, News Ltd recruited rugby league football administrators, clubs and players to form
5776-526: Was trying to push the magazine to the left. Since leaving the magazine, Manne has criticised it and the editors who came before— Peter Coleman and Roger Sandall , and after him— P. P. McGuinness and Keith Windschuttle . In 1996 he published The Culture of Forgetting , which explored the controversy surrounding Helen Demidenko 's 1994 Miles Franklin Award -winning novel about the Holocaust, The Hand that Signed
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