Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	News Corporation
Editor	Chris Mitchell
Founded	1964
Headquarters	2 Holt Street, Surry Hills, Sydney, New South Wales,  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. Image File history File links Unbalanced_scales. ... Shortcut: WP:NPOVD Articles that have been linked to this page are the subject of an NPOV dispute (NPOV stands for Neutral Point Of View; see below). ... Image File history File links The Australian Newspaper Masthead - a larger, higher quality copy File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ... 1211 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue), where News Corporation is based News Corporation (abbreviated to News Corp) (NYSE: NWS, NYSE: NWSa, ASX: NWS, LSE: NCRA) is one of the worlds largest media conglomerates. ... Chris Mitchell is an Australian journalist and is editor-in-chief of The Australian. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Categories: Suburbs of Sydney | Incomplete Sydney suburbs ... The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4. ... Slogan or Nickname: First State, Premier State Motto(s): Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) Other Australian states and territories Capital Sydney Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Professor Marie Bashir Premier Morris Iemma (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 50  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ... Keith Rupert Murdoch AC, KCSG (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian born United States citizen who is a global media executive and is the controlling shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation, based in New York. ... 1211 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue), where News Corporation is based News Corporation (abbreviated to News Corp) (NYSE: NWS, NYSE: NWSa, ASX: NWS, LSE: NCRA) is one of the worlds largest media conglomerates. ... The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ...

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. Realism is commonly defined as a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

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. The Daily Telegraph is a tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, by Nationwide News, part of News Corporation. ... The Herald Sun is a newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that is published by The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. ... Location of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is a subregion of Asia. ...

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. Paul Kelly is a well-known Australian political journalist and historian. ... “Right wing” redirects here. ... Greg Sheridan is foreign editor of The Australian, one of Australias only national newspapers, and one of its columnists. ... “Leftism” redirects here. ... Phillip Adams AO (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian broadcaster, film producer, writer, humanist, social commentator and satirist. ... Noel Pearson (born in June 1965 in Cooktown, Australia) is an Indigenous Australian lawyer and land rights activist. ... Ths article deals with conservatism as a political philosophy. ... Janet Albrechtsen (born 1966) is an Australian opinion columnist, social commentator and political pundit with the News Limited-owned newspaper, The Australian. ... Imre Salusinszky (born 1955) in an Australian conservative columnist and English literature academic. ... Bill Leak (born 1956) is the daily editorial cartoonist on The Australian newspaper. ... Peter Nicholson (born 1946) is an Australian political cartoonist and caricaturist whose work has been published in The Age, The Australian, and The Australian Financial Review newspapers. ... Chris Mitchell is an Australian journalist and is editor-in-chief of The Australian. ...

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 Financial Review is the leading business newspaper in Australia. ... John Fairfax Holdings Limited (ABN 15 008 663 161) is an Australian Public Company operating in the media industry, working predominantly with newspapers. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

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

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Current journalists

• Bryan Frith, business commentator
• Steve Lewis
• 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
• Sian Powell
• Chris Adamek
• Elizabeth Colman, business writer
• Samantha Maiden, political writer
• Peter Wilson, Europe correspondent
• Dorothy Illing, education writer
• Brendan O'Keefe, education writer
• Lisa Macnamara, education writer
• Leigh Dayton, Science writer
• Bernard Lane, education writer
• Glenn Milne, columnist
• Alan Wood, economics
• Matt Price, columnist
• Greg Roberts
• Andrew Fraser
• Tony Koch, Chief Queensland reporter
• Kevin Meade
• Annabelle McDonald
• Hedley Thomas
• Michael McKenna

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Occasional contributors

• Shahram Akbarzadeh, lecturer Monash University, Australia
• Ross Fitzgerald
• Antonella Gambotto (now Gambotto-Burke)

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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

• List of newspapers in Australia
• Australian Journalism
• Adrian Deamer

This is a list of Australian newspapers - see also * Australian Newspapers Online. ... Journalism in Australia varies from American and international standards in areas as diverse as legal freedoms to editorial practices. ... Adrian Deamer (1922-2000) was an Australian journalist, newspaper editor and lawyer. ...

References

1. ^ Polls apart at the Sausage sizzle
2. ^ Newstext: "archive dates"retrieved 2007-01-25

External links

• The Australian Online