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📊 Rupert Murdoch is the 24th-most-read Australian page on Wikipedia; Anthony Albanese is 162nd. That 138-place chasm tells you more about the country than any poll.

🌏 Australia is the only country in the world where a retired 94-year-old media mogul is drawing four times the attention on Wikipedia compared to the person who supposedly runs the government.

  • 📰 Policy is downstream of page-views. When Murdoch’s outlets frame a story, Wikipedia follows, because editors cite the loudest available source. The tail wags the dog.
  • 🤖 Algorithm gravity. Google’s Knowledge Panel for “Australia politics” still surfaces Murdoch’s bio ahead of Albanese’s on mobile. That isn’t neutrality; it’s inherited SEO

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