He is Australia’s most successful business leader, but Rupert Murdoch does not shy away from the headlines
September 1915, Gallipoli, as the Allies land on the beach.
War correspondent Keith Arthur Murdoch witnesses a very different war. Writing an 8,000 word private report, describing the Gallipoli campaign as a disaster.
It was the beginning of the Murdoch anti-establishment spirit, passed down to his son, Rupert, who took a half share in a small newspaper, and built a global empire.
1940s in Melbourne, and a young Keith Rupert Murdoch forged his way at his father’s newspaper, groomed for bigger things.
In 1952, his father died of cancer, and a young 21 year old Rupert returned to Australia, to pay back taxes and take the reigns of The News in Adelaide.
There, he cut costs, journalists complained of old newspapers being used in the place of toilet paper.
