Lachlan Murdoch claims Australia’s way of life ‘under attack’ and woke ABC is undermining country 

Lachlan Murdoch has slammed the ABC and claimed the Australian way of life is under siege in a pointed speech to the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA). 

‘Our core values, our successes and even our history are under constant attack,’ Rupert Murdoch’s eldest son said on Tuesday night as he launched the Centre for the Australian Way of Life – ‘a centre of cultural and intellectual influence and authority’ at the IPA. 

‘Nourishing and defending those core values is extremely important. Not to do so has real world, real bad outcomes,’ he said. 

Mr Murdoch, who is the CEO of Fox Corporation and thought most likely to succeed his father, did not name the ABC in his 3,400 speech, instead referring to it as ‘the national broadcaster’.

Rupert Murdoch (left) is pictured speaking with his eldest son Lachlan in Sun Valley, Idaho, USA on July 13, 2018

‘To listen to our national broadcaster or much of the media elite is to hear about a uniquely racist, selfish, slavish and monchromatic country,’ the billionaire media baron said. 

He said the reality was very different, that Australia is one of the most ‘tolerant, generous, independent and multicultural countries in human history’, but that ‘our national identity and culture are are weathering constant attempts to recast Australia as something it isn’t’.

Mr Murdoch, who arrived back in Sydney last Friday on his $90million private jet, said Australians had an ‘innate concept of fairness’ and believed in the concept of a ‘fair go’. 

‘I am always saddened when elements of our citizenry, often the elites who have benefited most from our country, display not a love of our values but a disdain for them,’ said the 50-year-old, who was born in London, raised in New York and moved from Los Angeles to Sydney last year.

‘How can we expect people to defend the values, interests and sovereignty of this nation if we teach our children only our faults and none of our virtues,’ he added.  

Mr Murdoch railed against what he called ‘the damage done to the American psyche’ through attacks on its values and the ‘destructive rewriting of its history’ and said Australia must ‘learn from this cautionary tale’.  

In a speech to launch the Centre for the Australian Way of Life, Lachlan Murdoch slammed the ABC (pictured), but only referred to it as ‘the national broadcaster’

He also offered some advice on Australia’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, saying the country was right to ‘turn the tyranny of distance into a temporary pandemic advantage … until vaccines were developed’. 

But he claimed the country then became ‘a victim of our own success, with state leaders thinking they could out-do each other with lockdowns and remain Covid-free forever’. 

Mr Murdoch said the approval of these approaches by much of the public ‘was fuelled by the alarmist language and fearmongering of politicians and much of the media’. 

The ABC declined to comment on Mr Murdoch’s claims when to contacted by Daily Mail Australia.  

Rupert Murdoch (centre) is pictured with his son Lachlan (right) and daughter-in-law Sarah in Sun Valley, Idaho, USA