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Murdoch’s Australia Day award brought to you by miners and bankers
Those who promote and profit from fossil fuels have appropriated the phoney awards handed out by the obscure Australia Day Foundation. https://www.crikey.com.au/2021/01/27/rupert-murdoch-australia-day-foundation/–
There’s no faulting the Australia Day awards for throwing up some real doozies but lost in the Margaret Court drama this year has been a so-called lifetime achievement award for Rupert Murdoch from the Australia Day Foundation.
On the face of it it looks to be an extraordinary decision: a prestigious honour bestowed on the media mogul whose recent hits in the United States include helping fan an insurrection against democracy via Fox News and in Australia leading the way on climate change denialism in cahoots with the Morrison government it supports.
GWPF Urges UK Govt to Halt Green Levies
Jan 28, 2021 12:45:pm
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by: William Powell
The privately-funded Global Warming Policy Foundation urged the UK government January 28 to suspend the green levies on energy bills, owing to the sharp rise in fuel poverty among millions of households. These are now costing over £10bn/year, mostly in subsidies to renewable electricity investors, it sai.
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Rupert Murdoch accepts a lifetime achievement award from the Australia Day Foundation. (Image: Supplied)
There’s no faulting the Australia Day awards for throwing up some real doozies but lost in the Margaret Court drama this year has been a so-called lifetime achievement award for Rupert Murdoch from the Australia Day Foundation.
On the face of it it looks to be an extraordinary decision: a prestigious honour bestowed on the media mogul whose recent hits in the United States include helping fan an insurrection against democracy via Fox News and in Australia leading the way on climate change denialism in cahoots with the Morrison government it supports.