Newspaper mogul Rupert Murdoch has called for a snap Australian election as the "only hope" for a country that has become "almost ungovernable".

But current Prime Minister Tony Abbott is still by "far the best alternative", and so presumably should be voted back in for a second term.

Rupert Murdoch thinks Australians are "gtreAt people but with large problems". Credit:Reuters

The head of the Murdoch empire, which stretches around the world, chose Twitter – rather than the front page of one of his many newspapers – to make his latest political statement.