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Rupert: The Last Mogul Podcast

Rupert's struggle to step out of his father’s shadow drives him to launch the first national broadsheet.

The kingmaker and his king

Rupert wields enormous influence over Australia’s political landscape, but it wasn’t always this way. In the 1960s and ’70s, Rupert's struggle to step out of his father’s shadow drives him to launch the first national broadsheet. His gamble pays off when the paper helps elect our most ambitious and progressive leader, Gough Whitlam. 

But as Rupert gets closer to power, he’ll learn just how far his papers can push the needle.

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Paddy Manning is a journalist and the author of The Successor, a biography of Lachlan Murdoch.

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