Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who is paid $500,000 per year as a Director of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corporation, has been elected national President of the Liberal Party.

At a time when the Liberal Party badly needs to be reaching out to younger generations, they have gone for someone who doesn’t relate well to many, if any, generations given he lost his seat to independent Zali Steggall in 2019.

For a former Prime Minister, 2013 to 2015, to lose to an independent says he is badly out of touch with voters and is the last person who should have a leadership role in a political party fighting for its future.

What makes Tony Abbott’s Presidency of the Liberal Party even worse is that he will be seen as nothing more than a puppet for Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch, who are despised nationally, especially among younger voters.

Now days the billionaires like Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch don’t even try to hide the fact that politicians are bought and paid for, they just put them directly on their payroll.

Tony Abbott as Liberal Party President would make it a certainty that there will be a split and fragmentation of the Liberal Party in the near future and my guess is it will happen before the 2028 federal election.

But to be fair, whether Tony Abbott was Liberal Party President or not, the Liberal Party fragmenting was always likely, it is just that under Abbott’s leadership it became a certainty.

Kevin Rudd and the Murdochs

As regular readers know, I have been writing regularly about former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his connection to Jeffery Epstein, and Rudd sent frivolous and vexatious defamation legal threats to Google and YouTube last year and early this year to have my articles blocked in Australia.

But Rudd stopped doing that about the same time he stopped being Australia’s Ambassador to the US in March 2026, and my last 4 or so videos on Epstein, which also feature Rudd, haven’t been blocked.

But then all of a sudden, Rudd has had a video blocked by YouTube that I published about Rudd and Murdoch as per below.

I received an email from YouTube, with the below message, on Friday (29/5/26) letting me know they had blocked my video, for Australian viewers, titled “Hypocrisy Exposed – Kevin Rudd joins Rupert Murdoch’s payroll” that I published on the 18th of May, 2026.

The video is below for overseas viewers, or you can read the article version by clicking here.

So, it seems Kevin Rudd is now more concerned about being outed for being on Rupert Murdoch’s payroll than he is being associated with paedophile Jeffery Epstein.

And why did it take YouTube from the 18th of May until the 29th of May, 11 days, to block the video? Maybe Rudd was late in making a complaint, who knows.

Are Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch collecting former Prime Ministers?

The Murdochs now have 2 former Prime Ministers, one Labor and one Liberal, in their hip pockets, which helps when they want political favours.

While the Murdoch media doesn’t have anywhere near the political influence it once did on elections, it still has the power to intimidate politicians.

But that is to the politician’s and political parties downfall, as being associated with the Murdochs is now extremely damaging for them and their reputations, which helps explain why Rudd made a frivolous defamation complaint about my video linking him to the Murdochs.

This website and the Kangaroo Court of Australia YouTube channel seem to be living rent free inside Kevin Rudd’s head. But he won’t send his frivolous legal threats directly to me which I take as a sign I’m on the right track with my articles and videos.

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