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A Golden Age of Freedom
The 2008 lecture series, A Golden Age of Freedom is presented by Mr Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, News Corporation.
On a wall in Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal office in Manhattan hangs a Russel Drysdale painting. It has travelled with him around the world. The Stockman and his Family depicts a pioneering Australia, steely and resilient in the face of solitude and hardship. Values which he feels have taken us to where we are today - one of the most prosperous and peaceful nations on Earth. But will these values see us through the times ahead?
Rupert Murdoch beholds a period of great transformation that will bring prosperity to billions around the world. This golden age of freedom will unleash a new global middle class. Markets, media and technology will all play their part.
But to reap the rewards we must make some drastic changes. A ballooning welfare state, failing state schools and full reconciliation among all Australians head his list.
The 2008 Boyer Lectures will be broadcast during Big Ideas on ABC Radio National at 5pm each Sunday between 2 November and 7 December 2008 (repeated the following Saturday at 7pm.) The lectures will be available as audio on demand, podcast and mp3 for download from this website.
The first Lecture in the series will also be broadcast on ABC1 on 2 November 2008 at 10.15pm - a special presentation of ABC FORA.
For more details on the lecture series, see this 2008 Boyer Lectures press release.
The 2008 Boyer Lecture series is presented by Rupert Murdoch.
Rupert Murdoch is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of News Corporation, one of the world’s largest diversified media companies. News Corporation’s operations include the production of major motion pictures and television programs, cable, satellite and broadcast television, newspaper, magazine and book publishing, and internet and mobile news, information and entertainment services, spanning the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America.
In 1954, Mr Murdoch took control of News Limited whose only key asset at the time was a majority interest in The News, the number-two daily newspaper in Adelaide. Since then News Corporation has become a worldwide organisation with more than 50,000 employees working in 130 companies in 60 countries.
Mr Murdoch has been appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for services to the media and to newspaper publishing in particular. Throughout News Corporation’s history, he and his family have been closely involved with, and made generous contributions to, various educational, cultural, medical and charitable organisations.
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