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Corporate cannibals : The taking of Fairfax / Colleen Ryan & Glenn Burge Port Melbourne: Mandarin Australia, 1993.
Call No: 19 FAI RYAAuthor: Ryan, Colleen -- Burge, Glenn Place: Port MelbournePublisher: Mandarin AustraliaPubDate: 1993PhysDes: x,459p.,[16]p. of plates : ports. ; 20cm.Subject: FAIRFAX ; PACKER, KERRY ; NINE NETWORK ; OWNERSHIP TV. AUSTRALIA ; OWNERSHIP. AUSTRALIA ; MURDOCH, RUPERT Notes: Includes indexISBN: 1863302492Contents: Prologue -- Battling the bondholders -- Warwick faces failure -- The end of a dynasty -- The sharks are circling -- Malcolm heads to court -- A touch of the blarney -- The Savoy: Tourang is born -- The politics of print -- The launch of Tourang -- The Packer factor -- A dash to Ireland -- Courting Canberra -- Goodbye Trevor -- Tourang under siege -- Packer hits back -- Goodbye Malcom -- Goodbye Kerry -- The battle for Broadway -- The bid deadline -- And the winner is... -- Epilogue
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Cultural in Australian Financial Review [AFR Magazine] (6/10/2017) p.51
Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; MEDIA. AUSTRALIAAuthor: Drummond, Matthew PhysDes: Clippings File ArticleSubject: INDUSTRY, TELEVISION. AUSTRALIA ; MEDIA. AUSTRALIA ; SPORT ON TV. AUSTRALIA ; SPORT AND TV. AUSTRALIA ; ENDEMOL SHINE ; NEWS CORPORATION ; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY FOX ; FENNESSY, CARL ; FENNESSY, MARK ; MURDOCH, RUPERT ; MURDOCH, LACHLAN ; MURDOCH, JAMES ; MURDOCH, ELIZABETH ; ALY, WALEED ; RACKARACKA ; KIDMAN, NICOLE ; PURCELL, LEAH ; WILSON, REBEL Summary: Discussion and listing of the most powerful figures in Australian culture in 2017. Those listed are: Carl and Mark Fennessy (Endemol Shine), AFL Women's competition, the Murdoch family (News Corporation), Waleed Aly, Racka Racka, Nicole Kidman, Megan Davis and the referendum council, Leah Purcell, Rebel Wilson, Leigh Carmichael
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Elizabeth misses out in house of the rising sons in Saturday Age [Business News] (13/06/2015) p.4
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Family patriarch could tread the boards as a good King Lear in Australian Financial Review (15/06/2015) p.36
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FED: Murdoch queries media law change proposals in AAP Newswire [Business & Finance] (2015/03/16) p.-
Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; MEDIA AUSTRALIAAuthor: Osborne, Paul PhysDes: Clippings File ArticleSubject: MEDIA AUSTRALIA ; MURDOCH, RUPERT Summary: Rupert Murdoch unhappy with Australian Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull's proposals for media reform in AustraliaNotes: located in the MEDIA. AUSTRALIA 2015 file
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Foxtel's Freudenstein backs Murdoch on AFL supremacy in Australian Financial Review (20/08/2015) p.22
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Hollywood in the information age : beyond the silver screen / Janet Wasko Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press, 1994.
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In the vernacular : a generation of Australian culture and controversy / Stuart Cunningham St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 2008.
Call No: 40(04)(94) CUNAuthor: Cunningham, Stuart Place: St Lucia, QldPublisher: University of Queensland PressPubDate: 2008PhysDes: xxxix, 294 p. ; 23 cmSubject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; IMPERIALISM AND TV. AUSTRALIA ; TELEVISION AND THE CINEMA. AUSTRALIA ; BAXTER, JOHN ; MURDOCH, RUPERT ; BODYLINE [TV] (AT, Carl Schultz & George Ogilvie & Lex Marinos & Denny Lawrence, 1984) ; COWRA BREAKOUT (AT, Chris Noonan & Phil Noyce, 1985) ; DIRTWATER DYNASTY [TV] (AT, John Power & Michael Jenkins, 1988) ; DISMISSAL, THE [TV] (AT, George T. Miller & others, 1983) ; EUREKA STOCKADE [TV] (AT, Rod Hardy, 1984) ; IN THE WAKE OF THE BOUNTY (AT, Charles Chauvel, 1933) ; LAST BASTION, THE (AT, Chris Thomson and Dr. George Miller, 1984) ; LAST FRONTIER, THE [TV] (AT, Simon Wincer, 1986) ; MAD MAX (AT, George Miller, 1979) ; MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME (AT, George Miller & George Ogilvie, 1985) ; MAD MAX II (AT, George Miller, 1981) ; NEIGHBOURS [TV] (AT, 1985-) ; OVERLANDERS, THE (UK, Harry Watt, 1946) ; VIETNAM [TV] (AT, John Duigan & Chris Noonan, 1987) Summary: "These essays, written over a twenty year period, bring together important works from one of Australias leading cultural studies thinkers. The selected papers map the trajectory of our changing culture and the way the field of cultural, media and communication studies have adapted to accommodate these changes."--Provided by publisherNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9780702236709
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International TV & video guide 1987 / edited by Richard Paterson London New York: Tantivy Press New York Zoetrope, c [1987].
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Lachlan Murdoch gets top 21st Century Fox job in The Australian (18/6/2015) p.21
Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY FOXAuthor: Davidson, Darren PhysDes: Clippings File ArticleSubject: TWENTY FIRST CENTURY FOX ; MURDOCH, JAMES ; MURDOCH, LACHLAN ; MURDOCH, RUPERT Summary: Report on the succession plans for 21st Century Fox, as Lachlan Murdoch has become the new Executive Co-Chairman with his father, Rupert Murdoch. James Murdoch has been awarded the Chief Executive Officer role of the company
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Media culture : television, radio, records, books, magazines, newspapers, movies / [compiled] by James Monaco New York: Dell Pub. Co., 1978.
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The Murdoch archipelago / Bruce Page in collaboration with Elaine Potter London: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
Call No: 81MUR PAGAuthor: Page, Bruce Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Simon & SchusterPubDate: 2003PhysDes: xii, 580 p. ; 24 cmSubject: NEWS CORPORATION ; MEDIA ; MURDOCH, RUPERT Summary: "Rupert Murdoch is one of the most powerful men in the world today. Through News Corporation he controls a global media empire with an unparalled array of assets in newspapers, television, movies and book publishing....What is the nature of Newscorp's power, and how was it constructed? This book describes a business built on a unique capacity to collaborate with established power - whether legitimate or otherwise - while pretending to rebel against it.... Bruce Page analyses the son's extension of the same essential method through Australia, Britain and the USA, showing how Murdoch's fluid, authoritarian personal qualities have enabled him to exploit systematic weaknesses in the media systems which we rely on to safeguard liberal democracy." -- Dust jacketNotes: Includes index.; Bibliography, p. 558-568ISBN: 0743239369Contents: Introduction: dynasts in cyberspace --1. A continent of newspapers -- 2. The conspirator as hero -- The Southcliffe inheritance -- 4. Black Jack and the student prince -- 5. Trading tabloid places -- 6. Mr Murdoch changes trains -- 7. An American nightmare -- 8. Times and values -- 9. Virtually normal -- 10. Cases of conscience -- 11. Patriotic like a fox -- 12. Margaret Thatcher's heroes -- 13. Present necessities -- 14. Rupert's establishment
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Call No: PERSONALITY MICROFILM COLLECTION; PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILEPhysDes: ClippingsSubject: MURDOCH, RUPERT
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Murdoch's choice: save or kill Ten in Australian Financial Review (1/05/2017) p.1
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Packer and Stokes applaud Murdoch's succession plan in Weekend Australian (13/06/2015) p.25
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Party games : Australian politicians and the media from war to dismissal / Bridget Griffen-Foley Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2003.
Call No: 411.1 GRIAuthor: Griffen-Foley, Bridget Source: ATPlace: MelbournePublisher: Text PublishingPubDate: 2003PhysDes: [xi], 292 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cmSubject: MEDIA ; MEDIA AUSTRALIA ; OWNERSHIP ; OWNERSHIP TV. AUSTRALIA ; OWNERSHIP. AUSTRALIA ; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA ; MENZIES, ROBERT ; MURDOCH, KEITH ; PACKER, FRANK ; MURDOCH, RUPERT Summary: "In 'Party games' Bridget Griffen-Foley takes us from the birth of the public relations industry and its triumphant reinvention of Robert Gordon Menzies to the Liberal implosion of the early seventies; from the king-making efforts of Frank Packer to Rupert Murdoch's contentious role in the Dismissal. Describing the pivotal interventions of press barons and politicians in each other's business, she shows how politicians learnt to use the media while the media were learning to shape government..." -- Book coverNotes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. [270] - 284ISBN: 1877008648Contents: Introduction -- 1: The Melbourne men: Bob Menzies and Keith Murdoch -- 2: Personality politics: Menzies versus Evatt -- 3: Blue suede shoes: politicians discover television -- 4: The Labor ward: the Fairfax dynasty and the 1961 election -- 5: The utility men: The Packers and New South Wales politics -- 6: King-making: Frank Packer, Alan Reid and the Liberal leadership -- 7: Barrackers, brokers and backers: the media and the 1972 election -- 8: King-breaking: Rupert Murdoch and the dismissal -- Epilogue
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The rise and rise of Kerry Packer / Paul Barry Sydney: Bantam, 1993.
Call No: 81PAC BARAuthor: Barry, Paul Source: ATPlace: SydneyPublisher: BantamPubDate: 1993PhysDes: xv, 544 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: PUBLISHING AND BROADCASTING LTD ; NINE NETWORK ; OWNERSHIP TV. AUSTRALIA ; GOVERNMENT CONTROL, TV. AUSTRALIA ; PACKER, KERRY ; PACKER, JAMES ; PACKER, FRANK ; MURDOCH, RUPERT ; BOND, ALAN ; HAWKE, BOB Notes: Includes endnotes, bibliographical references (p. [526]-528) and indexISBN: 1863590757
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Rupert Murdoch buys 50% of 20th Century Fox in Australasian Cinema (Friday, 29/3-4/4/1985) vol.14 iss.5 p.1
Subject: TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX ; MURDOCH, RUPERT Summary: Article on Murdoch buying 50% of 20th Century Fox as well as Murdoch and Fox's past-business deals and where the money will go
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Rupert Murdoch's own proxy war in Saturday Age (16/07/2016) p.18
Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; MURDOCH, RUPERTAuthor: Baker, Mark PhysDes: Clippings File ArticleSubject: HISTORY AND TV. AUSTRALIA ; WORLD WAR I FILMS ; WORLD WAR I ON TV ; MURDOCH, RUPERT ; MURDOCH, KEITH ; GALLIPOLI (AT, Peter Weir, 1981) ; BREAKER MORANT (AT, Bruce Beresford, 1980) ; DEADLINE GALLIPOLI [TV] (AT, 2015) Summary: Excerpt on a book about journalist Phillip Schuler. This excerpt looks at the championing of the role of Keith Murdoch in regards to the Australian presence in Gallipoli during the First World War by his son Rupert Murdoch and how this was represented in the films GALLIPOLI, BREAKER MORANT and the TV show DEADLINE GALLIPOLI
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Sky's the limit as Murdoch tries again in Australian Financial Review (12/12/2016) p.1
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Ten's creditors revealed...RN religion editor exorcised ... the new 'yellow peril'? in Crikey.com.au
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