Line #10 UsefulNotes/AustralianNewspapers


1	->''"I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.''"
2	-->--'''Felix Dennis'''
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4	There are two national daily newspapers: ''The Australian'', a broadsheet owned by [[UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch News Limited]], and ''The Australian Financial Review'', a tabloid-sized business paper owned by Fairfax Media. ''The Australian'' is conservative and highbrow in tone (rather like its Murdoch stablemate ''[[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers The Times]]'', to get an idea); the ''Financial Review'' is economically right-wing (so Americans, think of ''[[UsefulNotes/AmericanNewspapers The Wall Street Journal]]'').
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6	Each of the state capitals has a daily conservative tabloid newspaper: ''The Daily Telegraph'' in Sydney, the ''Herald Sun'' in Melbourne, ''The Courier-Mail'' in Brisbane, ''The Advertiser'' in Adelaide, ''The West Australian'' in Perth, and ''The Mercury'' in Hobart. All of these, except for ''The West Australian'', are owned by News Limited. Sydney and Melbourne each also have their own left-wing / centrist, somewhat more highbrow tabloid (formerly broadsheet): ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' in Sydney (obviously) and ''The Age'' in Melbourne, both of which are owned by Fairfax.
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8	The two territory capitals have one daily newspaper each. Darwin has the ''Northern Territory News'', a conservative tabloid owned by News Limited, but with a long-held and jealously guarded reputation for coming up with amazing puns for their headlines ("Catnappers Shaved my Pussy" was printed, in all its glory, on the front page of the 22 November 2016 edition, to widespread acclaim and general hilarity). The national capital Canberra has ''The Canberra Times'', a centre-left broadsheet owned by Fairfax.
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10	There are smaller local newspapers, as well as national papers in languages other than English, such as the Italian ''Il Globo'', but save for a few exceptions, these are only produced weekly and have low readership. There are also a variety of Australian magazines, such as the monthly ''Women's Weekly'' (work out the joke) and the now defunct news magazine ''Bulletin'', as well as magazines from the United States, such as ''Time'' and from the Old Country, such as ''The Economist''. The ''Saturday Paper'' has been brought back into circulation after a long hiatus, and is, as inferred by the name (a dangerous assumption, as the Women's Weekly shows), a weekly paper with a bent that is fairly radical (by Aussie standards)
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12	The ''Guardian'' and the ''Daily Mail'' now also have dedicated online-only editions for Australia, and basically take on the political viewpoints of their British cousins (the Guardian is left and aims for a progressive middle class readership, and the Daily Mail is... whatever the Daily Mail is, but with less outright pornography. Australians generally don't want an eyeful in their newspapers.)
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14	As the above quote shows, Australian readership levels are among the highest in the world. Actually, the national teams always ask for many newspapers to read as possible when abroad.
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16	Finally, the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) maintains a very well regarded online, TV, and radio news service, but does not actually print newspapers, whether online or hard copy; see the article about Aunty to see what that's all about.
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18	!In summary:
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20	''' The Australian''': Nation-wide, conservative, UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch paper for Australia’s wealthy business elite
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22	''' The Australian Financial Review''': Nationwide, conservative, paper for the wealthy business elite. More focused on information and minutiae. Owned by Fairfax.
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24	''' Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, Courier-Mail, The West Australian, The Advertiser''' and ''' Northern Territory News''' : These are considered to be slanted to the centre-right of the political spectrum and are considered by some to be the best place to reach the Aussie “floating” voters during a political campaign.
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26	''' The Age''', ''' The Sydney Morning Herald''' and '''The Canberra Times''': These are considered to be slanted to the centre-left of the political spectrum. The phrase “‘Age’ reader” is generally used as the AusEng version of the UK term “‘Guardian’ reader”.
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28	''' The Guardian''' and the '''Daily Mail''': The Australian and online-only editions of their British cousins, with all the characteristics of the British paper.
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30	!A Final Note:
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32	Since it was done for UsefulNotes/AmericanNewspapers, we should also adapt the ''Series/YesMinister'' quote for Down Under:
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34	-> '''Prime Minister:''' Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers: The Sydney Morning Herald is read by people who think they run the country, The Age is read by people who think they ought to run the country, The Australian is read by people who actually do run the country, the Herald Sun is read by the wives of the people who run the country, the Financial Review is read by people who own the country, the Saturday Paper is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country[[note]]UK[[/note]] and the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.[[note]]China, or the enemy nation-state ''du jour''[[/note]]
35	-> '''Senior Civil Servant:''' Prime Minister, what about the people who read the NT News?
36	-> '''PM's Secretary:''' NT News readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits.
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