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Phil Aiken among friends at UK Australia Day awards Save Share Ex-BHP petroleum boss Phil Aiken was awarded the Australian of the Year in the UK gong at the Australia Day Foundation Awards last week, which are usually (when not in lockdown) held annually at Australia House in London. Itâs another one of those corporate coincidences weâre so fond of, numerous as they are in a country as fond of oligopolies as this one. Australia House in London, which in normal years hosts the Australia Day Foundation Awards. AFR The main sponsor of the awards is BHP, where Aiken â these days a leading UK-based director â worked until 2006. And after leaving the Big Australian (having been cleared of wrongdoing during the Oil for Wheat scandal), he turned up as chairman of yet another of the eveningâs platinum sponsors, being recruitment firm Robert Walters. ....
The vice-like grip Murdoch has traditionally enjoyed on the Australian media goes back to former Prime Minister John Howard’s changes to the cross media laws, allowing individuals to own all types of media concurrently. The monopoly fallout continues today, including the recent restructuring of what used to be regional media, with many regional TV stations taken over by Sky, local papers closing and hundreds of journalists made redundant. Nonetheless, there are signs the mainstream advertising-centric, partisan media model may have had its day. Michael West told Green Left that despite the spin, the old media empires are crumbling, bleeding money and journalists over many years. ....
Rupert Murdoch attacked ‘a wave of censorship that seeks to silence conversation’ while receiving an award from the UK-based Australia Day Foundation. Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters Rupert Murdoch’s lifetime achievement award from the UK-based Australia Day Foundation was presented to him from a virtual gala event at Australia House in London and had all the hallmarks of an official honour. The 89-year-old was wearing a large medal on a green ribbon around his neck and standing next to an Australian bottle of wine when he accepted the gong in a pre-recorded video. Perhaps unsurprisingly, some people thought the media baron had been recognised by the Australian honours system. ....
Rupert Murdoch’s lifetime achievement award from the UK-based Australia Day Foundation was presented to him from a virtual gala event at Australia House in London and had all the hallmarks of an official honour. The 89-year-old was wearing a large medal on a green ribbon around his neck and standing next to an Australian bottle of wine when he accepted the gong in a pre-recorded video. Perhaps unsurprisingly, some people, including Kevin Rudd,. ....