Former Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd on Wednesday criticised the nomination of competition litigator Gina Cass-Gottlieb as the next chairwoman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission because of her long-standing ties to Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch’s media empire.
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