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Masthead of 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 295,000. 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. ... Broadsheet is a size and format for newspapers, and a descriptive term applied to papers which use that format rather than the smaller tabloid format. ... Rupert Murdoch Keith Rupert Murdoch (born 11 March 1931), is an Australian-born American media proprietor who is the majority shareholder and managing director of News Corporation, one of the worlds largest and most influential media corporations. ... News Corps headquarters in New York News Corporation (abbreviated to News Corp) (NYSE: NWS) is one of the worlds largest media conglomerates. ... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...


The Australian treads the Murdoch editorial line on most issues, in favour of free-trade economic policy and, particularly, relaxed regulation of the media sector, a realpolitik approach to foreign policy, and, unlike its downmarket stablemates, a somewhat liberal approach on social issues. It has a particular focus on foreign news and especially Australia's immediate neighbours in South-East Asia. On Monday it has a liftout focussing on worldwide issues, on Tuesdays an IT liftouts, Wealth and High Education liftouts on Wednesday, Media and Marketing on Thursdays and an expanded sport liftout on Fridays. Location of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is a subregion of Asia. ...


Amongst its regular columnists are the political journalist Paul Kelly, Libertarian foreign editor Greg Sheridan, left wing highbrow radio broadcaster Phillip Adams, and right wing provocateurs Janet Albrechtsen and Angela Shanahan. It also features daily cartoons from Bill Leak and Peter Nicholson. As the only national daily, its closest competitors in the major Australian markets are the Fairfax broadsheets The Sydney Morning Herald, and Melbourne's The Age. Paul Kelly is a well-known Australian political journalist and historian. ... This article deals with the libertarianism as defined in America and several other nations. ... Greg Sheridan is foreign editor of The Australian, one of Australias only national newspapers, and one of its columnists. ... Phillip Adams Phillip Adams AO (born 1939) is an Australian broadcaster on the Radio National network of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), filmmaker, author, archaeologist, controversialist, social commentator and satirist. ... Janet Albrechtsen is a conservative opinion columnist and social commentator with the News Limited-owned newspaper, The Australian. ... Bill Leak (born 1956) is an Australian political cartoonist who regularly contributes to The Australian newspaper. ... Peter Nicholson (born 1946) is an Australian political cartoonist and caricaturist whose work has been published in The Age, The Australian, Australian Financial Review newspapers. ... John Fairfax Holdings Limited is an Australian-based newspaper publisher. ... The Sydney Morning Herald is a prestigious and important newspaper in Australia, published daily in Sydney, the most populous city in Australia. ... The Age is a broadsheet daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, founded on October 17, 1854. ...


See also

National The Australian Australian Financial Review New South Wales Sydney The Daily Mirror (defunct) The Daily Telegraph The Sun Herald The Sunday Telegraph The Sydney Morning Herald Regional The Illawarra Mercury (Wollongong) The Newcastle Herald The Border Mail (Albury-Wodonga) Victoria Melbourne The Age The Argus (defunct) The Herald Sun...

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