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The following year, other media outlets also reported these issues and the policy turned into a political embarrassment for the government, which until then had been able to ignore ''The Australian'''s reports. Along with the government's insulation stimulus policy, it contributed to perceptions of incompetence and general dissatisfaction with the government's performance.{{citation needed|date=April 2011}} On 16 July 2010 it was reported that [[Julia Gillard]] had admitted that the school-building program was flawed and that errors had been made because the program was designed in haste to protect jobs during the [[global financial crisis]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/julia-gillard-admits-school-mistakes/story-e6frgczf-1225892389548 |title=Julia Gillard admits school mistakes |author=Matthew Franklin and Patricia Karvelas |accessdate=3 April 2011 |date=16 July 2010 |newspaper=The Australian |publisher=News Limited }}</ref> |
The following year, other media outlets also reported these issues and the policy turned into a political embarrassment for the government, which until then had been able to ignore ''The Australian'''s reports. Along with the government's insulation stimulus policy, it contributed to perceptions of incompetence and general dissatisfaction with the government's performance.{{citation needed|date=April 2011}} On 16 July 2010 it was reported that [[Julia Gillard]] had admitted that the school-building program was flawed and that errors had been made because the program was designed in haste to protect jobs during the [[global financial crisis]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/julia-gillard-admits-school-mistakes/story-e6frgczf-1225892389548 |title=Julia Gillard admits school mistakes |author=Matthew Franklin and Patricia Karvelas |accessdate=3 April 2011 |date=16 July 2010 |newspaper=The Australian |publisher=News Limited }}</ref> |
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''The Australian'' was the first media outlet to pursue the [[AWU affair]], a saga which involved [[Julia Gillard]] helping her then partner set up a slush fund in the early 1990s when she was a salaried partner at Slater and Gordon. Once again, the story was ingored for a long time by other media outlets. The [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC]] for instance did not cover the story until after Gillard finally held a press conference to respond to the allegations against her.<ref>{{Cite news |url=httphttp://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/aunty-still-in-denial-but-proving-political-bias-is-as-easy-as-abc/story-fn8qlm5e-1226578726810|title=Aunty still in denial, but proving political bias is as easy as ABC|author=Chris Kenny |accessdate=February 16, 2013|date=February 16, 2013|newspaper=The Australian |publisher=News Limited }}</ref> The story then became a major political issue, resulting in [[Julie Bishop]] questioning Gillard in parliament and Gillard holding another press conference to respond to the evidence against her. |
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File:The Australian.png | |
Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet, Online, App |
Owner(s) | News Limited |
Editor-in-chief | Chris Mitchell |
Editor | Clive Mathieson |
Founded | 14 July 1964 |
Headquarters | Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia |
ISSN | 1038-8761 |
Website | theaustralian |
The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964. The editor in chief is Chris Mitchell, the editor is Clive Mathieson and the editor-at-large is Paul Kelly. Available nationally (in each state and territory), The Australian is the biggest-selling national newspaper in the country, with weekday sales of 135,000 and Saturday sales of 305,000, figures substantially below those of top-selling papers in Sydney (The Daily Telegraph), Melbourne (The Herald Sun), and Brisbane (The Courier-Mail). Its chief rival is the business-focused Australian Financial Review.
In May 2010, the newspaper launched the first Australian newspaper iPad app.[1]
Parent companies
The Australian is published by News Limited, an asset of News Corporation, which also owns the sole dailies in Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart and Darwin and the most popular metropolitan dailies in Sydney and Melbourne.[2] News Corporation's Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder is Rupert Murdoch.
The Australian integrates content from overseas newspapers owned by News Limited's parent, News Corporation, including The Wall Street Journal and The Times of London.[2]
History
The first edition of The Australian was published by Rupert Murdoch on 15 July 1964, becoming the third national newspaper in Australia following shipping newspaper Daily Commercial News (1891)[3] and Australian Financial Review (1951). Unlike other Murdoch newspapers, it was neither a tabloid nor an acquired publication.[4] From its inception The Australian struggled for financial viability and ran at a loss for several decades.[4]
Coverage
Daily sections include National News (The Nation) followed by Worldwide News (Worldwide), Sport and Business News (Business). Contained within each issue is a prominent op/ed section, including regular columnists and non-regular contributors. Other regular sections include Technology (AustralianIT), Media, Features, Legal Affairs, Aviation, Defence, Horse-Racing (Thoroughbreds), The Arts, Health, Wealth and Higher Education. A Travel & Indulgence section is included on Saturdays, along with The Inquirer, an in-depth analysis of major stories of the week, alongside much political commentary. Saturday lift-outs include Review, focusing on books, arts, film and television, and The Weekend Australian Magazine, the only national weekly glossy insert magazine. A glossy magazine, Wish, is published on the first Friday of the month.
The Australian has long maintained a focus on issues relating to Aboriginal disadvantage."[2] It also devotes attention to the information technology, Defence and mining industries,[2] as well as the science, economics, and politics of climate change. It has also published numerous "special reports" into Australian energy policy.
Since 2006 the Australian Literary Review has been a monthly supplement, until its last issue on October 2011.
Notable stories
Stimulus Watch
In 2009, The Australian ran many articles about the Rudd Government's "Building the Education Revolution" policy, which uncovered evidence of over-pricing, financial waste and mismanagement of the building of improvements to schools such as halls, gymnasiums and libraries. On the newspaper's website, there was a section named "Stimulus Watch", subtitled "How your Billions Are Being Spent", which contained a large collection of such articles.[5]
The following year, other media outlets also reported these issues and the policy turned into a political embarrassment for the government, which until then had been able to ignore The Australian's reports. Along with the government's insulation stimulus policy, it contributed to perceptions of incompetence and general dissatisfaction with the government's performance.[citation needed] On 16 July 2010 it was reported that Julia Gillard had admitted that the school-building program was flawed and that errors had been made because the program was designed in haste to protect jobs during the global financial crisis.[6]
AWU Affair
The Australian was the first media outlet to pursue the AWU affair, a saga which involved Julia Gillard helping her then partner set up a slush fund in the early 1990s when she was a salaried partner at Slater and Gordon. Once again, the story was ingored for a long time by other media outlets. The ABC for instance did not cover the story until after Gillard finally held a press conference to respond to the allegations against her.[7] The story then became a major political issue, resulting in Julie Bishop questioning Gillard in parliament and Gillard holding another press conference to respond to the evidence against her.
Payment for online content
In October 2011 News Ltd announced that it was planning to become the first general newspaper in Australia to introduce a paywall. It charges readers $2.95 a week to view premium content on its website and mobile phone and tablet applications.[8]
Editorial and opinion pages
Mitchell has said that the editorial and op-ed pages of the newspaper are centre-right,[9] "comfortable with a mainstream Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd, just as it was quite comfortable with John Howard."[2] According to other commentators, however, the newspaper "is generally conservative in tone and heavily oriented toward business; it has a range of columnists of varying political persuasions but mostly to the right."[10] Its former editor Paul Kelly has stated that "The Australian has established itself in the marketplace as a newspaper that strongly supports economic libertarianism".[11]
The Australian presents varying views on climate change, including giving space to articles and authors who agree with the scientific consensus, such as Tim Flannery, those who agree with the cause but who disagree with the methods of coping with it, such as Bjørn Lomborg,[12] through to those who disagree that the causes or even presence of global warming are understood, such as Ian Plimer.
In September 2010, the ABC's Media Watch presenter Paul Barry, accused The Australian of waging a campaign against the Australian Greens, and the Green's federal leader Bob Brown wrote that The Australian has "stepped out of the fourth estate by seeing itself as a determinant of democracy in Australia". In response, The Australian opined that "Greens leader Bob Brown has accused The Australian of trying to wreck the alliance between the Greens and Labor. We wear Senator Brown's criticism with pride. We believe he and his Green colleagues are hypocrites; that they are bad for the nation; and that they should be destroyed at the ballot box."[13]
Columnists and contributors
Regular columnists include Dennis Shanahan, Peter van Onselen, Paul Kelly, Greg Sheridan, Nicolas Rothwell, Janet Albrechtsen, Imre Salusinszky, Chris Kenny, Troy Bramston, Nikki Savva, Judith Sloan, Emma Tom and Angela Shanahan. It also features daily cartoons from Bill Leak and Peter Nicholson.
Occasional contributors include Gregory Melleuish, Kevin Donnelly, Tom Switzer, James Allan, Luke Slattery, and Noel Pearson.
Former columnists include Phillip Adams, Mike Steketee, David Burchell, Michael Stutchbury, Simon Adamek, Glenn Milne, Cordelia Fine,[14] Alan Wood, Michael Costa, Michael Costello, Frank Devine and Matt Price.
Awards
In November 2006, The Australian journalist Caroline Overington was awarded both the Sir Keith Murdoch Award for Journalism and a Walkley award for investigative journalism over her coverage of the AWB Oil-for-Wheat Scandal for the paper.[15] The following year, Hedley Thomas won the Gold Walkley Award for his coverage of the Haneef case.
Also in 2007, the newspaper's website won the Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers' Association Online Newspaper of the Year award.[16]
The Australian's "Australian of the Year"
In January of every year, The Australian announces its choice for "Australian of the Year". In 2011, the newspaper announced that Treasury Secretary Ken Henry was its winner of the award for 2010.[17] Previous winners include Kevin Rudd (2009),[18] Stephen Keim (2008),[19] Bob Brown (1983)[20] and Gough Whitlam.[18]
See also
References
- ^ Omar Dabbagh (17 May 2010). "The Australian launches iPad newspaper app". PC World. IDG Communications. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
- ^ a b c d e Manning, James (10 March 2008). "National daily plans new business website and monthly colour magazine". MediaWeek (854). Sydney, Australia: 3, 7, 8.
- ^ Daily commercial news and shipping list, National Library of Australia Trove
- ^ a b Cryle, Denis (2008). Murdoch's flagship (PDF). Melbourne University Press. ISBN 978-0-522-85675-0.
- ^ "Stimulus Watch". The Australian. News Limited. various.
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(help) - ^ Matthew Franklin and Patricia Karvelas (16 July 2010). "Julia Gillard admits school mistakes". The Australian. News Limited. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
- ^ Chris Kenny (16 February 2013). [httphttp://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/aunty-still-in-denial-but-proving-political-bias-is-as-easy-as-abc/story-fn8qlm5e-1226578726810 "Aunty still in denial, but proving political bias is as easy as ABC"]. The Australian. News Limited. Retrieved 16 February 2013.
- ^ "Australian to charge $2.95 a week for all online content. It is also charging $1 for the first 28 days then increasing to the $2.95 per week from the end of the first month". The Age. Melbourne. 18 October 2011.
- ^ Mitchell, Chris (9 March 2006). The Media Report. Australian Broadcasting Company.
- ^ Clancy, Laurie (2004). Culture and customs of Australia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 126. ISBN 978-0-313-32169-6.
- ^ "Do not disturb: is the media failing Australia?" P60 By Robert Manne
- ^ Jowit, Juliette (30 August 2010). "Bjørn Lomborg: $100bn a year needed to fight climate change". The Guardian. London.
- ^ http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/tv/mediawatch/mediawatch_2010_ep32.mp4
- ^ http://www.cordeliafine.com/journalism.html
- ^ Kickback: Inside the Australian Wheat Board scandal. Allen & Unwin.
- ^ Elks, Sarah (9 August 2007). The Australian wins online newspaper award. News.com.au.
- ^ Ken Henry: the thinking country's bureaucrat The Australian
- ^ a b Why is Kevin Rudd Australian of the Year? Crikey
- ^ Hedley Thomas. (15 December 2007). The odd couple. The Australian.
- ^ http://www.abc.net.au/tv/myfavouriteaustralian/brown.htm