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The Australian, also referred to as The Oz, is a broadsheet

Broadsheet

Broadsheet is the largest of the various newspaper formats and is characterized by long vertical pages . The term derives from types of popular prints usually just of a single sheet, sold on the streets and containing various types of matter, from ballads to political satire....
newspaper

Newspaper

A newspaper is a publication containing news, information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on Politics, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports....
published in Australia

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
on Monday to Saturday each week since 1964. The editor is Chris Mitchell

Chris Mitchell

Chris Mitchell is an Australian journalism and is editor-in-chief of The Australian. He began his career on the former afternoon tabloid, The Telegraph, in 1973 and after working on The Townsville Bulletin, the Daily Telegraph and the Australian Financial Review, became editor of The Australian in 2003....
and the 'editor-at-large' is Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly (journalist)

Paul Kelly is an Australian political journalist, and historian. He has worked in a variety of roles, and is currently "editor-at-large" for The Australian, an Australian national newspaper....
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The Australian is the biggest-selling national newspaper in the country, its chief rival being the business-focussed Australian Financial Review, with weekday sales of 135,000 and Saturday sales of 305,000.

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The Australian, also referred to as The Oz, is a broadsheet
Broadsheet

Broadsheet is the largest of the various newspaper formats and is characterized by long vertical pages . The term derives from types of popular prints usually just of a single sheet, sold on the streets and containing various types of matter, from ballads to political satire....
newspaper
Newspaper

A newspaper is a publication containing news, information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on Politics, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports....
published in Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
on Monday to Saturday each week since 1964. The editor is Chris Mitchell
Chris Mitchell

Chris Mitchell is an Australian journalism and is editor-in-chief of The Australian. He began his career on the former afternoon tabloid, The Telegraph, in 1973 and after working on The Townsville Bulletin, the Daily Telegraph and the Australian Financial Review, became editor of The Australian in 2003....
and the 'editor-at-large' is Paul Kelly
Paul Kelly (journalist)

Paul Kelly is an Australian political journalist, and historian. He has worked in a variety of roles, and is currently "editor-at-large" for The Australian, an Australian national newspaper....
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The Australian is the biggest-selling national newspaper in the country, its chief rival being the business-focussed Australian Financial Review, with weekday sales of 135,000 and Saturday sales of 305,000. These figures are substantially below those enjoyed by metropolitan dailies in the major cities. The Australian is published by News Limited
News Limited

News Limited was the principal holding for the business interests of Rupert Murdoch until the formation of News Corporation in 1979. News Limited is now a subsidiary of that company....
, which also owns the sole or most popular metropolitan daily in Sydney
Sydney

Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....
, Melbourne
Melbourne

Melbourne is the more common name for the geographic region and Census in Australia of the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area. It is the second List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.8 million and serves as the List of Australian capital cities of Victoria ....
, Brisbane
Brisbane

Brisbane is the state List of Australian capital cities of Queensland and its most populous city. It is also the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, behind southern rivals Sydney and Melbourne....
, Adelaide
Adelaide

Adelaide is the List of Australian capital cities and most populous city of the Australian States and territories of Australia of South Australia, and is the fifth-largest city in Australia, with a population of more than 1.1 million....
, Hobart
Hobart

Hobart is the List of Australian capital cities and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1803 as a penal colony, Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney....
and Darwin
Darwin, Northern Territory

Darwin is the List of Australian capital cities of the Northern Territory, Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin has a population of 120,900, making it by far the largest and most populated city in the sparsely peopled Northern Territory, but the least populous of all Australia's capital cities....
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Agenda

Mitchell has said that the editorial and op-ed pages of the newspaper are centre-right
Centre-right

The centre-right is a politics term commonly used to describe or denote individuals, political party, or organisations whose views stretch from the centrism to the right-wing on the Left-Right politics, excluding far right stances....
, "comfortable with a mainstream Labor prime minister
Kevin Rudd

Kevin Michael Rudd is the 26th and current Prime Minister of Australia of Australia and federal leader of the centre-left Australian Labor Party ....
, just as it was quite comfortable with John Howard
John Howard

John Winston Howard, Order of Australia was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. He is the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Robert Menzies....
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The newspaper has long maintained a particular focus on issues of Aboriginal disadvantage: "We always campaign very hard on Aboriginal issues because our readers want to see the problem fixed, not because they just wanted an apology."

The newspaper also devotes attention to the information technology
Information technology

Information technology , as defined by the Information Technology Association of America , is "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware." IT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to data conv...
and mining
Mining

Mining is the extraction of value minerals or other geology materials from the earth, usually from an ore body, vein or seam. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, Sodium chloride and potash....
industries.

Under the previous Howard Government
John Howard

John Winston Howard, Order of Australia was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. He is the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Robert Menzies....
, some say The Australians perceived cosiness with the government caused it to be nicknamed 'The Government Gazette' among journalists, including sections of the Canberra press gallery.

The Australian has run many articles critical of the science and, more particularly, the politics of climate change

Climate change

Climate change is any long-term significant change in the expected patterns of average weather of a specific region over an appropriately significant period of time....
. It has received criticism for its climate change reporting from climate change commentary website RealClimate

RealClimate

RealClimate is a commentary site on climatology by a group of climate scientists for the interested public and journalists. It aims to provide a quick response to developing stories and provide the context sometimes missing in mainstream commentary....
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Recognition

Australian journalist Hedley Thomas won the Gold

Gold Walkley

The Gold Walkley is the most prestigious of the Walkley Awards for Australian journalism. It is chosen by the Walkley Advisory Board from the winners of all the other categories ....
Walkley Award in 2007.

It won the Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers' Association Online Newspaper of the Year award.

Parent

The Australian integrates content from overseas newspapers owned by News Limited's parent, News Corporation

News Corporation

News Corporation , , ) is one of the world's largest Media conglomerate conglomerates. The company's Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder is Rupert Murdoch and the President and Chief Operating Officer is Peter Chernin....
, including the Wall Street Journal and The Times
The Times

The Times is a daily national newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register.The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of News International....
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Sections

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, comprised of regular columnists and non-regular contributors. Other regular sections include Technology (AustralianIT), Media, Features, Legal Affairs, Aviation, 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.

Columnists

Regular columnists include Dennis Shanahan

Dennis Shanahan

Dennis Shanahan is a political editor of the Australian, the biggest national newspaper in Australia. His son is author and journalist Brendan Shanahan ....
, Glenn Milne

Glenn Milne

Glenn Milne is a Canberra journalist and political commentator. He currently works for News Ltd as political editor of The Daily Telegraph newspaper, and as a columnist for The Australian newspaper....
, Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly (journalist)

George Megalogenis

George Megalogenis is an Australian journalist, political commentator and author.George is a senior feature writer for The Australian newspaper....
, Mike Steketee, Greg Sheridan

Greg Sheridan

Greg Sheridan is foreign editor of The Australian, one of Australia's few national newspapers. The Australian is the flagship Australian paper of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation empire....
, Alan Wood

Alan Wood

Alan Wood was born and brought up in Sheffield where he was educated at King Edward VII School .In 1965 he won an Open Scholarship to Manchester University and graduated in 1968 with a First Class Honours Degree in Mechanical Engineering....
, Phillip Adams

Phillip Adams

Phillip Andrew Hedley Adams Order of Australia is an Australian Presenter, film producer, writer, Humanism , social commentator, Satire, left-wing pundit and atheist....
, Noel Pearson

Noel Pearson

Noel Pearson is an influential Australian Aborigine Australia lawyer, Aboriginal land claim and Director of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership, an organisation promoting the economic and social development of Cape York Peninsula....
, Michael Costello

Michael Costello

Michael A Costello is a State Representative for the Massachusetts House of Representatives, who represents the first district of Essex County, Massachusetts....
, Janet Albrechtsen

Janet Albrechtsen

Janet Kim Albrechtsen is a right-wing Australian opinion columnist, social commentator and conservatism pundit with the News Limited-owned newspaper, The Australian. She is also a member of the Board of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation , Australia's state-owned national broadcaster....
, Imre Salusinszky

Imre Salusinszky

Imre Salusinszky in an Australian conservative columnist and English language literature academic.Having been an editorial advisor for Quadrant and currently a NSW political reporter and columnist for The Australian newspaper, he was appointed chairman of the Literature Board of the Australia Council for a three-year term beginnin...
and Angela Shanahan. It also features daily cartoons from Bill Leak

Bill Leak

Bill Leak is a cartoonist and painter, primarily of portraits. He is the daily editorial cartoonist on The Australian newspaper. He has won the Walkley Awards nine times....
and Peter Nicholson

Peter Nicholson

Peter Nicholson is an Australian political cartoonist, caricaturist and sculptor, and a four times winner of the Walkley Awards for Journalism, with work published in The Age, The Australian, The Australian Financial Review, and the Nation Review newspapers....
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The Australian

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Parent

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Columnists

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