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Petitions are the new elections – if you’re Kevin Rudd

12 October 2020

5:00 AM

12 October 2020

5:00 AM

If you can’t win elections, what are your options? Will you sit back and accept democracy, or will you arrogantly pursue your own ends via peer pressure? 

If you’re on the left, you will, apparently, choose the latter. 

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd has launched a petition calling for a Royal Commission into Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. 

Kruddy has labelled Murdoch’s company a “cancer on democracy”.  

He reckons Murdoch media is running a protection racket for the Liberal and National Party.  

Clearly, he does not believe that individuals are capable of thinking for themselves.  

He says the move has been prompted by his “passion for the country’s...

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