The Australian Financial Review
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The Australian Financial Review is the leading business newspaper in Australia. In August 1951 The Australian Financial Review was started as a weekly newspaper. In October 1961 it became bi-weekly and became a daily publication in 1963. In February 1995, The Australian Financial Review Magazine was introduced, followed shortly by their website launch in June of the same year. In June 2006, AFR Access (http://members.afraccess.com) was launched as a dynamic investment and property research toolkit.
Since the 1970s, the AFR has been associated with economic rationalism in Australia, driving a consistent editorial line favouring small government, deregulation, privatisation, lower taxes and trade liberalisation. However, the opinion columns incorporate a wider range of views.
The AFR is informally referred to as the Fin.
Journalists
Journalists writing for AFR include Geoffrey Barker, Alan Mitchell, and Laura Tingle. Regular opinion columnists include former leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, John Hewson, a frequent critic of current Liberal Prime Minister, John Howard, John Roskam of the Institute of Public Affairs, Tony Harris, former Auditor-General of New South Wales and John Quiggin.Criticisms
The Financial Review has been criticized for not adequately reporting the transactions of company directors of listed companies. Although the Financial Review publishes share and derivative prices on a daily basis, it does not publish information on the on-market buy and sell decisions of company directors, an important portent of the direction of share prices.
It is believed by many that publishing information about directors dealings would anger directors and make them more inaccessible to journalists.
Many small-time investors who read the Financial Review complain that it does not match the quality of foreign business newspapers like the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times or Investors Business Daily. These critics say that the Financial Review does not adequately cater for the needs of small-time investors and does not provide them with news that they can use in order to make informed investment decisions.
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