The Most Influential Australian Of All Time Is....An American

By DP Mason

It just makes your heart swell with Australian pride to discover that ’The Most Influential Australian Of All Time’ actually turns out to be an American.

The Bulletin Magazine has oh-so-pomously decided that some ex-Australian media mogul named Rupert Murdoch deserves to be called ’The Most Influential Australian’, despite the fact that he didn’t think being an Australian citizen was worth as much as owning a few American television stations.

That Murdoch is ranked above deeply patriotic, committed, passionate Australians like Fred Hollows, Manning Clark, Jack Lang, Henry Lawson, Damien Parar and Banjo Patterson makes this Australian icon branding of Murdoch all the more absurd.

Murdoch gave up his Australian citizenship for the benefit of no-one but himself. It wasn’t an act of charity or generosity, and he didn’t do it for love. He did it for money and power and his own prestige.

He was told he couldn’t own TV stations in the US unless he became an American citizen, and so he very quickly dumped his right to be called an Australian like it was a smelly old coat he could now afford to replace.

People risk their lives to try and get to this country to become Australian citizens, and often have to spend a few years in a detention centre before they are extended this honour. They swear allegiance to Australia and expect nothing but the right to call themselves Australian in return.

But Rupert Murdoch thought his Australian citizenship was worth LESS than....Fox News.

"I think that we’re on the cusp of a better world," Murdoch said during a speech in Sydney yesterday. "A world of certainly very fast change, change which we can’t all foresee except we know it’s going to be tremendous."

The Murdoch News media empire were amongst the chief cheerleaders of the War On Iraq, and his television network, newspapers, book publishers and radio shows were the loudest promoters of the ’Saddam’s Got Nukes’ myth.

His media empire has profited to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars from the ’War On Iraq’ and are now whipping up further distrust and hatred of Muslims in anticipation of more big dollars coming from a War On Iran. It should come as no suprise that Murdoch’s media attack dogs are now claiming ’Iran’s Got/Wants Nukes’.

According to the Australian Prime Minister and the Australian Treasurer, Rupert Murdoch is also "a great Australian’, a claim they’ve both made numerous times, knowing full well that Murdoch sold out his nationality simply to make more money.

Murdoch is neither "A Great Australian" or ’The Most Influential Australian Of All Time’.

He is an ex-Australian, by choice, and there’s nothing more insidiously un-Australian than that.

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