As Australia’s election result reminds us, News Corp no longer has the power to sway voters | Margaret Simons

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has, for some time now, been impotent when it comes to affecting the outcomes of elections.

At every state and federal election in Australia since 2010 , the Murdoch press has supported the Coalition, and usually campaigned vigorously against Labor and other opponents.

But look at the results in those contests. No discernible impact..

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Getting at the left has become an end in itself a culture war fought with the bitterness and passion of the disfranchised.

Identity politics, important in its way, has obscured too much of the politics of class, including economic and educational inequality.