Whether or not you think the Australia 2020 summit was an awesome idea or a pile of steaming turd (listen to this week’s GrodsThink — broadcast on Tuesday — for the GrodsTeam’s take on the summit and its outcomes) you’d have to agree that the media’s coverage was rather selective. If you read a newspaper this morning you would’ve been confronted with an image on the front page of either Cate Blanchett or Hugh Jackman. Or both.

By the way, did you know that Cate had a baby a few days ago?

Bridgit’s touched on the fact that ordinary punters felt they couldn’t get a word in edgeways…

Sorry to interrupt, but I just wanted to make sure that you knew that Cate Blanchett had a baby last week and took him along the summit.

Anyway, where was I? Oh that’s right. Here’s a snapshot of the media coverage given to summit participants using Australian newspaper journalists’ favourite research tool (Google):

* There are 713 mentions of Cate Blanchett (did you know she had a baby?) and the 2020 summit on Google News.
* There are 409 of Hugh Jackman and the summit.
* There are…

(Cate Blanchett’s baby, that she had a few days ago and took to the summit, is named Ignatius.)

…386 mentions of Cate Blanchett and Hugh Jackman at the summit.
* There are 267 mentions of Cate Blanchett and Ignatius (that’s her son that she took to the summit).
* There are 176 mentions of Lachlan Murdoch at the summit and he even owns one of the largest media organisations in the country.
* There are 59 mentions of Julia Gillard at the summit and she’s the deputy Prime Minister.

(Just so you know, Cate Blanchett’s new baby is only a few days old and she was still able to go to the summit. And she took the baby.)

* There are 4 mentions of Kate Hands at the summit.

GrodsCorp fun fact: Cate Blanchett — whose job it is to memorise lines of dialogue and recite them while pretending to be another person — gave birth to a son last week and, like, totally stole the show at a giant policy development forum where there were hundred of other people (whose names may not be instantly recognisable) with actual knowledge about things that matter thrashing out the future direction of the country! By the way, did you know that Cate managed to co-chair a working group and take breastfeeding breaks?