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'Catholic Mafia': How George Pell won over Murdoch

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The Relationship Between News Corp and John Howard

Pels was, you know, leading figure in the culture wars. He was he was certainly a supporter of John Howard. Pels held up his hand and said, look, there's more than one view in the Catholic Church. Our rates will stay at 10% let me hasten to add. Cara Jensen McKinnon: Do you think we will ever see another religious leader who could ever be that influential on Australian politics and an Australian media again? Or is that era over now?

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