Rupert Murdoch (left) and Malcolm Fraser (right) worked to politically destroy Gough Whitlam. Documents released by the National Archives, including a personal file compiled by Murdoch and notes of Fraser's attorney-general, Bob Ellicott, show that the media magnate and prime minister worked together on Murdoch's biggest personal scoop - a front page revelation in The Australian of February 25, 1976, that Whitlam had secretly sought a massive election campaign donation from Saddam Hussein's Iraqi Baath Party.
What was called the Iraqi Money Affair was a political sensation that nearly cost Whitlam the Labor leadership in humiliating circumstances...read more
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