Rupert Murdoch's Newspapers Declare War on Australia's Prime Minister

By: Pip Bulbeck | The Hollywood Reporter

When Australian voters go to the polls Sept. 7, it will mark the end of the nastiest election campaign the country has seen in 40 years. But the ugliest battles aren't between the political foes, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd of the center-left Labor Party and Tony Abbott of the conservative Liberal National Coalition. They're between Rudd and Rupert Murdoch, who is throwing the full weight of his media empire behind an effort to oust Rudd.