It seems that
Federal police are investigating allegations by Bill O'Chee, former National Party Senator from Queensland, that News Ltd offered him a "'special relationship' involving favourable coverage if he crossed the floor on a vote of financial interest to the company".
Mr O'Chee, a Queensland senator between 1990 and 1999, has had a long and difficult relationship with the Murdoch press, which spent years reporting on his large parliamentary superannuation payout and an acrimonious split with his first wife.
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A week later he called the executive and told him he would not cross the floor. 'After this conversation, it became almost impossible for me to get anything published in the Queensland newspapers which News Corporation controlled, even though I had been able to do so before the lunch meeting.'
Mr O'Chee lost his Senate position three months later.
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