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Gough Whitlam, Bob Hawke, Paul Keating and Kevin Rudd were all from the right wing of the Australian Labor Party. Centre left or further left havenever got good press from Murdoch. Malcolm Turn bull was centre-left in the Liberal party and got done over by Murdoch.obviously you do have a very short memory, or you weren't even in Aust at the the time. Actually, if you chose to do your research, you would discover that The Australian editorially promoted Gough Whitlam and the Labor party in the 1972 election. The same anti democratic paper also supported Bob Hawke's and Kevin Rudd's elections. Iam somewhat surprised that you didn't close your last sentence with that other old hoary chestnut the the Queen and / or CIA actually deposed Gough. Ha Ha.
When I was young, all major parties were a big step further to the left. They all shifted to the right after globalisation happened and killed-off the unions. But even that is not enough for Murdoch - he wants even more stupidity.