Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has claimed News Corp’s role in Australian politics is too powerful, and the media giant must be held to account while speaking at the federal Senate inquiry into media diversity in Australia on April 12. Turnbull, who was recently dropped as the head of the New South Wales (NSW) Net-Zero Emissions and Clean Economy Board a week after his appointment, alleged that the media giant was the most powerful political actor in the country. “The most powerful political actor in Australia is not the Liberal Party or the National Party or the Labor Party; it is News Corporation,” Turnbull said. “And it is utterly unaccountable. It is controlled by an American family, and their interests are no longer, if they ever were, coextensive with our own.” News Corp is Australia’s biggest newspaper owner, encompassing The Australian, The Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, The Courier Mail, The Advertiser, Sky …