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Aug 22, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
On June 30 2022 Lachlan Murdoch's lawyer got in touch about an article we'd published about the January 6 insurrection, Donald Trump and Fox News.
He issued Crikey a concerns notice, alleging the article defamed Lachlan Murdoch.
Read the letter [FREE] crikey.com.au/2022/08/22/lac…
In letter two, Murdoch's lawyer indicates his client's willingness to pursue the matter in court.
Crikey attempts to make amends, yet rejects the letter's claims about the original article we published. crikey.com.au/2022/08/22/lac…
Aug 22, 2022 • 5 tweets • 6 min read
Lachlan Murdoch threatened to sue us for publishing public interest journalism.
We believe in media freedom. So today we’re standing up to Murdoch and publishing the legal letters from his lawyer to show you how abuse of media power works in Australia. crikey.com.au/2022/08/22/lac…
Publishing these letters and exposing this legal assault is the only way to shine a light on how one billionaire media owner can abuse his power to silence a small publisher under Australia’s defamation laws.
Crikey's full investigation into Minister for Employment Stuart Robert is now UNLOCKED.
@d_hardaker looks into Robert's relationship with the PM, his history of conflicts of interest, and his use of a blind trust to keep his financial affairs secret crikey.com.au/topic/brother-…
In part one, @d_hardaker reveals that Stuart Robert is the only Morrison government cabinet minister to have put a complete wall of secrecy around his assets via a blind trust.
THREAD: An investigation by @d_hardaker has raised serious questions about the use of a blind trust by Minister for Employment Stuart Robert to shield scrutiny of his financial dealings.
The public has the right to know more [Unlocked] 1/ #auspol crikey.com.au/2021/11/15/stu…
Since 2019, Stuart Robert’s parliamentary interests register has been little more than a blank page in a time when he was in charge of the multi-billion dollar NDIS budget and privy to confidential information about the scheme.
#NSWICAC Berejiklian is asked whether Maguire told her to announce the funding for Riverina Coservatorium during the Wagga. Berejiklian says she has been shown evidence to that effect but would not recall the conversation had she not been shown.
#NSWICAC She is asked to name which of her other colleagues supported the project. She says she can't remember, but her understanding that "everyone" was in support. Robertson clarifies "everyone?" Berejiklian is emphatic: "No, of course not." Can't name any specific indiviuals.
Nov 1, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#NSWICAC Berejiklian says that Sarah Cruickshank adivised her in 2018 not to have anything more to do with Maguire. "Obviously I didn't follow that particular advice ... "
#NSWICAC Asked if she had told Cruickshank the relationship was over, Berejiklian says she can't recall, but that she thinks she said it had been "on again off again". "Certainly I wanted to make it clear how close we were."
Oct 31, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
#NSWICAC Robertson refers to her statement the weekend after Maguire's 2018 ICAC evidence, that he had "let down" his constituents, state and party. Robertson asks if by then she suspected he had engaged in corrupt conduct. She says no.
#NSWICAC She is asked how that can possibly been the case, she says "because that wasn't the person I knew ... "
