If you want to know the real facts, the letters page is often the place to find them. There’s this in The Sydney Morning Herald:

First Neil Chenoweth of The Australian Financial Review,
then David McKnight in Fairfax columnist Robert Manne’s new moan about
the irrelevancy of the Old Left, now Valerie Lawson and Mark Coultan
make the claim I once bought a yacht with Lachlan Murdoch (“A new
posting”, Herald, August 6-7). This is not so. In their dreams, and, perhaps, mine.

Piers Akerman, Sydney

And this, in the Fin Review:

Neil Chenoweth made the same mistake (“Giving a little can
be taken a long way,” July 29) as some other media commentators in his
nudge-nudge, wink-wink reference to my husband helping our son with his
“homework.” Rodney Adler was acquitted of the charge arising from the
homework incident. The prison inquiry found that he was, in fact,
helping our son with his homework.

Your
reporter perhaps did not realise that Rodney had been cleared of this
charge because, in stark contrast to the big front page headlines
trumpeting the so-called breach, the reports that he had been cleared
were so buried that one could be forgiven for missing them. The only
charge found to be proven against Rodney – which did not relate to any
homework – was so minor that the punishment was suspended.

Lyndi Adler, Vaucluse