The Australian
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The Australian is described as an influential paper not because of how many people read it but because of who reads it - the politicial elite and the business class.
The Australian treads the Murdoch editorial line on most issues: it supports free-trade economic policy, a realpolitik approach to foreign policy, and is particularly in favour of relaxed regulation of the media sector. It could be politically described as being an advocate of New Right ideas.
Unlike its downmarket stablemates, such as The Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun, the paper adopts a somewhat liberal approach on 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 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.
Amongst its regular columnists are the political journalist Paul Kelly, foreign editor Greg Sheridan, left-wing radio broadcaster Phillip Adams, and Conservative writers Janet Albrechtsen and Angela Shanahan. It also features daily cartoons from Bill Leak and Peter Nicholson. The paper's editor in chief as at November 2005 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 Sydney Morning Herald, and Melbourne's The Age.
Editors
- Chris Mitchell, Editor in Chief
- Michael Stutchbury, Editor
- Petra Rees, Deputy Editor
- Deborah Jones, Executive Editor
- Martin Beesley, Managing Editor
- Tom Switzer, edits the "opinion" page
Current Journalists
- Christine Jackman
- David King
- Dan Box
- Kevin Andrusiak
- James Madden
- John Lehmann
- Steve Lewis
- Dennis Shanahan
- Cath Hart
- Michael Sainsbury
- James Riley
- Patricia Karvelas
- Clara Pirani, Medical reporter
- Stuart Rintoul
- Sian Powell, Jakarta correspondent
- Elizabeth Colman
- Samantha Maiden
- Peter Wilson, Europe correspondent
- Dorothy Illing
- Brendan O'Keefe
- Lisa Macnamara
- Leigh Dayton, Science writer
- Julian Cribb
- John Gravois
- Inez Baranay
- David Cohen
- Derek Parker
- Bernard Lane
- Brendan O'Keefe
- Glenn Milne
- Alan Wood, economics
- Matt Price
- Greg Roberts
- Andrew Fraser
- Tony Koch
Occasional Contributors
- Shahram Akbarzadeh, lecturer Monash University, Australia
- Ross Fitzgerald
- Antonella Gambotto (now Gambotto-Burke)
See also
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