Breaking News Corp.

The article in last week's "The Saturday Paper" by Chris Wallace titled as above

, is good news. If we are to see the dismemberment of News Corp and all it's off- chutes, the media industry may return to it's historic best, both here and internationally. Rupert Murdoch, the son of Keith Murdoch who it can be argued was not a very nice man, may have successfully built a giant media concern here in Australia and subsequently The UK and USA, but will not be well remembered in any precinct. His involvement in political discourse was always to his personal benefit and " devil take the hindmost"

The fact that his family is split and involved in court proceedings while his marital activities, discarding two or three wives appears to show a man with few scruples. His political views were never to the advantage of the nation.

However the author's comments pertaining to Tanya Plibersek's handling of the Regis Resources gold mine, while partially good are not good enough. This mine should never have been approved. Public meetings(2) here in Bathurst were strongly opposed by the attendees and we only became aware of this application when it was announced in our local press that Regis was asking approval to build a pipeline from water catchments near Lithgow.This was not approved by Bathurst Regional Council after we, the residents strongly opposed the proposition. A few years went by with hardly any news,- when suddenly we heard approval for the mine had been granted by apparently, the State government. Gold mining is the least necessary or essential activity in this day and age. It is driven only by greed, for the loss of productive land, in vaults all around the world. Just another example of how our political masters never act in the interest of the nation. The question has to be asked? How much money was donated to the relevant political parties to gain approval. A parliament or parliaments occupied by independents selected and voted in by their electorates, would be most unlikely to approve such chicanery.

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