Murdoch’s Australia Day award — brought to you by miners and bankers

There is no doubt about the Australian Day Awards, which threw some real Douzies, but this year’s Margaret Court drama lost to the so-called Lifetime Achievement Award of the Australian Day Foundation Rupert Murdoch.

In the face of it, it looks like an extraordinary decision: Honor given to media tycoons, including helping recent hits in the United States incite a rebellion against democracy through Fox News. It supports with some honor and the Morrison government leading the path of cahoots’ denial of climate change in Australia.

But the Australian Day Foundation isn’t what it looks like. A UK non-profit organization founded as a networking hub for Australian businesses and high performers. Losers do not need to apply.

The Foundation and its awards are supported by a group of international conglomerates, including mining giants BHP, Rio Tinto, Woodside and Anglo American. Major Australian banks, National Australia Bank and Westpac Bank, are also active. Another major name is CQS, a wealthy London hedge fund founded by Australian entrepreneur Sir Michael Hintze.

Hinze is not well known in Australia, but he is at the heart of a strong network of business and conservative British and Australian politicians. As we reported last year, he was the force behind the climate-skeptical Global Warming Policy Foundation, which gave voice to the views of Tony Abbott and Cardinal George Pell.

Nominally a business outfit, the Foundation is also blurring the boundaries with government. Sponsored by the Australian Trade Promotion Agency, the Australian House, home of the High Commission of Australia, London, is used to distribute the “Australia Day” award to selected individuals in the United Kingdom and Australia.

This year, the Conservative MP Liz Truss, who promoted Abbott’s cause as a trade adviser to the British government, was awarded the prestigious Australian of the Year in the United Kingdom. Past winners include Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Cricky Asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade about its support for the Austrade Foundation, its use as a venue for the Australian House, and the apparent diversion of the Australian Day name in the interests of the sector. DFAT introduced the question to the Australian Trade Promotion Agency, which did not respond.

The Lifetime Achievement Award may not be the official honor of Australia Day, but Murdoch accepted it as if it were, used it as a platform to blow up social media, and he “awakened” the cancellation culture. I haven’t stopped blaming you as. A step from media owners who have made a fortune from a business model that relies on free broadcasting of false information that destroys the opinions and truths of extremists.

Murdoch received a platform for his view via Australian Financial Review Could not provide background on the basics.

After being attacked by Murdoch, it was actually social media that revealed the Australian Day Foundation’s masquerade and its phone awards.

The deselection of marketing myths began three days ago by the activist group Sleeping Giants. clearly A list of fossil fuel, mining and banking interests to support the award. Yesterday, one of Twitter’s most prolific story breakers, Ronni Salt, Detailed network Connections with the Foundation, including former PR manager of Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who is a member of the Australian Tourism Board.

The story of the benefits of fossil fuels, which divert Australian national awards with the help of taxpayer-funded institutions, seems to have been overlooked by major Australian media players.