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November 22nd, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
AAP
Australian Federal Police is investigating whether News Ltd offered a former Nationals senator favourable coverage if he voted a certain way on proposed media laws.
Bill O’Chee, who served as a Queensland senator from 1990 to 1999, has told the AFP a News Ltd executive said he would be “taken care of” if he crossed the floor, Fairfax Media reports.
The alleged incident was revealed when Mr O’Chee had a recent conversation with a sitting MP at an Australian airport about the News of the World phone hacking scandal.
The AFP was told about the October conversation, and the matter was this month referred to the special references unit, which deals with politically sensitive issues.
Mr O’Chee, who was in his early 30s when he lost his Senate seat, had been pilloried about his large parliamentary superannuation and his divorce by the Murdoch press.
In 1998, legislation was proposed to ban new TV stations for 10 years to protect existing operators and give free-to-air broadcasters up to six new channels under a new digital television regime.
News Ltd was opposed to the move.
Mr O’Chee, who had previously crossed the floor on coalition legislation, said in his nine-page statement to the AFP that he received an invitation to lunch with a senior News Ltd executive.
They met in mid-1998, soon after the Queensland state election, at a Brisbane restaurant where Lachlan Murdoch, the son of News Ltd chairman Rupert Murdoch, was having lunch at another table with Chris Mitchell, then editor of The Courier Mail newspaper.
The News Ltd executive declined to comment to Fairfax.
Lachlan Murdoch said through a spokesman he could not recall the lunch, while Mitchell said he recalled a lunch with Mr Murdoch during which they encountered Mr O’Chee but could not recall the presence of the News executive.
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