Lachlan Murdoch on refugee support
From Speech by Lachlan Murdoch Deputy CEO, STARTTS · · Karen New Year Sydney
“The existence of an organization like STARTTS is really a recognition that people making their way to Australia as refugees have been through some very considerably traumatic experiences and that on arrival here and over the period of people's process of resettlement can be really assistance for those who've been through those traumatic experiences to have the support of people like counselors, in some cases with our work people who are physiotherapists and assist people with injuries that they sustain and the somatic effects of the impact of torture.”
On , Lachlan Murdoch, Executive Chairman & CEO at Fox Corporation (Class A), spoke about refugee support during Speech by Lachlan Murdoch Deputy CEO, STARTTS on Karen New Year Sydney.
About Lachlan Murdoch
Lachlan Murdoch, executive chairman and CEO of Fox Corporation, has been the subject of a three-part Australian Story documentary series examining his role in the Murdoch family's succession dispute. In the documentary, Murdoch described the family as "a very close family" and said "we actually are a normal family, we just have a bit of a spotlight on us." Journalist Paddy Manning, who is featured in the documentary, characterized Murdoch as someone who "wins the crown" but "finds himself estranged from his family." Court records from the Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit against Fox News showed that Murdoch was "cheering for Donald Trump" on election night 2020, according to the documentary, which also reported that Murdoch and his father became "increasingly uncomfortable with countering Trump because the fox audience was tuning out." In a March 2022 speech launching the Centre for the Australian Way of Life at the Institute of Public Affairs, Murdoch criticized COVID-19 lockdown measures, saying "who would have believed that in Australia a pregnant mother would be arrested for questioning a government lockdown." He also criticized tech platforms for content moderation, stating that YouTube "banned Sky News Australia based on YouTube's own judgments and changing standards about a handful of pandemic related videos." Murdoch described himself as "conservative economically" and "more liberal on social policy," and said "when people tell me to think a certain way... I'm more inclined to think a different way."