and as chairman of Fox Television stations, and was the publisher of the New York Post. While at the New York Post, its circulation grew by over 40 per cent.

In July 2005, the 33-year-old Murdoch abruptly resigned as an executive at the News Corp after a clash with then Fox News head Roger Ailes, with whom his father had sided, and returned to Australia with his wife and son. At the time, aged 34, he was the third most powerful