How a lovestruck teenager, an angry man and an ambitious baron made sure bad news was no news on the path to Iraq
Murdoch's War
By Robert Manne
Four months later on January 17, 2003, the Hobart Mercury was singing the standard Murdoch tune:History is littered with the victims of tyrants and the tattered reputations of those who failed to take a stand against them … There may be some disquiet in the Australian community about the Howard Government’s enthusiasm for a fight. But this is always the case when a nation – and the worl
