Australia On This Day

7 July - 1960 - The Kidnapping Of Graeme Thorne


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REPEAT: This was a crime against a child that shocked a nation. Yet the kidnapping of Graeme Thorne was also the sensational story that young media proprietor Rupert Murdoch needed to make his acquisition of Sydney's Daily Mirror a success — just as his father Keith Murdoch had bolstered his newspaper career 40 years earlier in Melbourne by capitalising on a "good murder story" where the victim was a child.


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