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John Quayle, Lachlan Murdoch, Ian Roberts, Andrew Johns

Thirty years on, the Super League war still impacts the game

On April 1, 1995 News Limited raided ARL clubs for players and coaches in a move that started a bitter three-year war and split the code.

  • Roy Masters

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The historic first Oxford v Cambridge women’s Australian rules football match in 2018 ended in a draw.

‘Nerdiest football club on earth’: How the world’s top scholars made Aussie rules history

It’s a contest that rivals Carlton v Collingwood, only with the odd Nobel Prize thrown in. And it’s been going for 105 years.

  • Rob Harris
Saudi Arabia may have had a hand in News Corp’s Foxtel sale. Rupert Murdoch [left]; Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman [right]

Foxtel’s sale backed by Saudi dollars close to the finish line

With the foreign investment watchdog spending the past three months scrutinising the deal, broadcast rights for AFL, NRL, cricket and Formula 1 could soon be in the hands of a global sports-streaming giant.

  • Calum Jaspan
Murdoch’s daughters were never a serious chance of taking over from him.

Handmaiden or peacemaker but never No.1: The Murdoch daughters ‘forsaken’ by their father

Though Prudence and Liz are Rupert Murdoch’s eldest children, their gender meant they were never considered genuine heirs to the throne.

  • Jordan Baker
Murdoch’s children began discussing the PR strategy for their father’s death after watching the season three episode of Succession in which the Logan Roy (Brian Cox) the patriarch of the family dies.

The Succession Memo: How Logan Roy’s death derailed Rupert Murdoch

The hit HBO show was said to be based on the dysfunctional Murdoch family, but in a case of life imitating art, the Murdochs began taking cues from their onscreen counterparts.

  • Thomas Mitchell
Rupert Murdoch with children Elisabeth, Lachlan and James.

Why Rupert Murdoch has blown up his favourite son’s future

The media mogul rolled the dice in trying to secure his empire for son Lachlan and has ended up pitting the latter against the collective might of his siblings.

  • Elizabeth Knight
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Life imitates art for Rupert Murdoch and his children (from left) Lachlan, Elisabeth, Prudence and James.

James Murdoch spills the beans on family feud in explosive interview

Alleged betrayal by his father, Rupert, has led to James revealing innermost family secrets for the first time.

  • Colin Kruger
Life imitates art for Rupert Murdoch and his children (from left) Lachlan, Elisabeth, Prudence and James.

‘You’ve blown a hole in the family’: The inside story of the Murdoch succession drama

Rupert Murdoch thought he was going to die as the spectacular failure of his plan for dynastic control of the conservative media group unravelled.

  • Colin Kruger
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Updated product lacks polish

We didn’t even know the kiwi was threatened.

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Rupe’s a shoe-in for best-dressed

While The Donald goes ga-ga 68 years too late.

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