1. In 1971 the satirical magazine Private Eye labelled Murdoch the “Dirty Digger” for his “vandalising” of the British press. See William Shawcross, Murdoch (London: Pan Macmillan, 1993), 144, 156.
2. Stephen Alomes, When London Calls: The Expatriation of Australian Creative Artists to Britain (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1999), xii.
3. See also R.B. Walker, The Newspaper Press in New South Wales, 1803–1920 (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1976), 204–5; and Clem Lloyd, Profession: Journalist (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger), chaps. 1–2.