Petition surpasses Australia’s previous biggest e-petition to parliament – a 2019 demand for a climate emergency to be declared
A former
Australian prime minister’s petition calling for a royal commission into the Murdoch media has reached a historic high of almost half a million signatures.
The ex-Labor leader behind the campaign, Kevin Rudd, has been supported by a fellow prime minister from the conservative side of politics, the Liberals’ Malcolm Turnbull, who put his name to the petition on the Australian parliament’s website.