Australia’s first female prime minister, assailed by media outlets owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Ltd., which controls 70 percent of newspapers in the country, said her government’s inquiry into the news industry won’t result in any change in ownership.
The probe, announced earlier this week by Julia Gillard’s Labor government, was prompted by concern that the illegal telephone hacking pursued by Murdoch’s News Corp. in the U.K. would spread to Australia. Gillard demanded and received an apology for a falsehood published last month by the Australian, a newspaper owned by News Corp.’s Sydney-based News Ltd.
