The Australian
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | News Corporation |
| Editor | Chris Mitchell |
| Founded | 1964 |
| Headquarters | 2 Holt Street, Surry Hills, Sydney, New South Wales,  Australia |
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| 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 trade policy, a realist approach to foreign policy, and is particularly in favour of liberalsation 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 at August 2006 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.
The Australian's perceived Liberal-Conservative views have led some to nickname it 'The Government Gazette', especially among some journalists, including sections of the Canberra press gallery.[1]
Editors
- Chris Mitchell, Editor in Chief
- Paul Whittaker, Editor
- Nick Cater, Weekend Editor
- Graham Erbacher, Deputy Editor
- Christopher Dore, Deputy Editor (Melbourne)
- Michael Stutchbury, Deputy to the Editor In Chief (Business)
- Deborah Jones, Executive Editor
- Martin Beesley, Managing Editor
- Wally Mason, Sports Editor
- Tom Switzer, edits the "opinion" page
- Andrew White, Business Editor
- Paul Kelly, Editor-at-Large
Current journalists
- 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
- Matt Price, columnist
- 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
Occasional contributors
- Shahram Akbarzadeh, lecturer Monash University, Australia
- Ross Fitzgerald
- Antonella Gambotto (now Gambotto-Burke)
Archiving policy
As at January 2007, The Australian is placing archived articles in Newstext; "a user-pays site, with a minimum purchase requirement of $AU17.50"[2].
See also
References
- ^ Polls apart at the Sausage sizzle
- ^ Newstext: "archive dates"retrieved 2007-01-25
External links
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