Kevin Rudd has launched a petition to initiate a royal commission into News Limited in a quixotic and cynical bid to curtail the news organisation’s influence in Australian politics.
Quixotic because neither the current Coalition Government nor the Labor Opposition is likely to take any notice of the call no matter how many signatures the former Labor leader manages to get to sign his petition.
And cynical because Rudd knows this but also knows that he will garner a lot of publicity and …
