There is ‘no one News Corp view’ on election, head of company’s Australian arm tells staff

Michael Miller told staff that ‘electorate issues in Surry Hills differ greatly to those in Broken Hill’, and that mastheads should put community interests first. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

Rupert Murdoch’s Australian lieutenant has told News Corp journalists there is “no one News Corp view” about the election and that individual editors are free to decide which party to endorse.

Executive chairman of News Corp Australasia, Michael Miller, said it was important to remember that “electorate issues in Surry Hills differ greatly to those in Broken Hill” and that audiences “expect us to interrogate all parties and all sides”.