It’s been some years since media baron Rupert Murdoch has visited Australia but that may change over the summer. The talk in well-placed circles is that Murdoch, with wife number five Elena Zhukova in tow, is planning a visit, after failing to make a much-anticipated trip earlier this year for the 60th anniversary his The Australian newspaper.

News Corp’s New York media team did not respond to a request to confirm if the 93-year-old chairman emeritus of News and Fox Corporation would be visiting.

Murdoch, who has sold about $US48 million ($74 million) in Fox shares this month,........

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