
"His genius has been to discover different ways in which his two passions - a desire for money and a thirst for power - can be combined," is how Prof Robert Manne, a former News Corp contributor, described it in a 2011 essay. By 1964 he owned papers in every state and was in the process of launching the nation's first ever national broadsheet - The Australian. He was also planning his move into the UK market, something his father had tried but failed to do. The channel has long...