At his farewell press conference after being ousted by his party, outgoing Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull invited questions from six reporters, none of whom came from the nation's largest newspaper stable, Mr Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

The move was seen as a deliberate act of revenge by Mr Turnbull, whose leadership of the Liberal Party had been savagely attacked by a group of right-wing commentators, including some from News Corp, among several notorious radio and television commentators.