The Australian

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Masthead of The Australian'
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet

Owner News Corporation
Editor Chris Mitchell
Founded 1964
Headquarters 2 Holt Street, Surry Hills, Sydney,
New South Wales, Flag of Australia Australia

Website: The Australian

The Australian is a national daily broadsheet newspaper published by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Headquartered in Sydney, but with bureaux around Australia, it was founded in 1964, losing money for nearly thirty years. Its circulation is still quite small, with a weekday circulation of approximately 130,000 and a Saturday circulation of approximately 195,000.

The Australian tends to support free trade, a realist approach to foreign policy, and is particularly in favour of liberalisation of the media sector. It could be politically described as being an advocate of liberal conservatism.

Unlike its more tabloid stablemates, such as The Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun, the paper adopts a somewhat liberal approach on some social issues. It has a particular focus on foreign news, especially in relation to Australia's immediate neighbours in South-East Asia. On Monday it has a liftout focusing on worldwide issues, on Tuesdays an IT liftout, Wealth and Higher Education liftouts on Wednesday, Media and Marketing on Thursdays and an expanded sport liftout on Fridays.

Among its regular columnists are the political journalist Paul Kelly, right wing foreign editor Greg Sheridan, left-wing radio broadcaster Phillip Adams, Aboriginal lawyer and activist Noel Pearson, and conservative writers Janet Albrechtsen, Imre Salusinszky and Angela Shanahan. It also features daily cartoons from Bill Leak and Peter Nicholson. The paper's editor-in-chief as of November 2007 was Chris Mitchell.

As the only national daily, with the exception of the business-oriented Australian Financial Review, its closest competitors in the major Australian markets are the Fairfax broadsheets The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Contents

  • Bryan Frith, business commentator
  • Dennis Shanahan
  • Peter Switzer
  • Cath Hart
  • Blair Speedy, business writer
  • Andrew Trounson, business writer
  • Tim Boreham, business columnist
  • Richard Gluyas, business writer
  • Christine Jackman
  • David King
  • Dan Box
  • Kevin Andrusiak
  • James Madden
  • Richard Kerbaj
  • Natasha Robinson
  • Ewin Hannan
  • Rick Wallace
  • George Megalogenis
  • Patrick Smith, sports columnist
  • Chip Le Grand, Australian Football writer
  • Michael Sainsbury, business writer
  • James Riley
  • Patricia Karvelas, political writer
  • Clara Pirani, Medical reporter
  • Stuart Rintoul
  • Andrew Main, business editor
  • Tim Blue, business writer
  • Sian Powell
  • Chris Adamek
  • Samantha Maiden, political writer
  • Peter Wilson, Europe correspondent
  • Dorothy Illing, education writer
  • Brendan O'Keefe, education writer
  • Lisa Macnamara, business writer
  • Leigh Dayton, Science writer
  • Bernard Lane, education writer
  • Glenn Milne, columnist
  • Alan Wood, economics writer
  • Greg Roberts
  • Andrew Fraser
  • Tony Koch, Chief Queensland reporter
  • Kevin Meade
  • Geoffrey Newman, business writer
  • Annabelle McDonald
  • Hedley Thomas
  • Michael McKenna
  • Katherine Jimenez, business writer
  • Grant Holloway, managing editor online
  • Nic Hopkins, news editor online
  • Chris Griffith, deputy news editor online
  • Caroline Overington, columnist and blogger

As at January 2007, The Australian is placing archived articles in Newstext, "a user-pays site, with a minimum purchase requirement of $AU17.50"[1].

  1. ^ Newstext: "archive dates"retrieved 2007-01-25

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