The Australian
Encyclopedia
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
.
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
, Melbourne
and Brisbane
. Its chief rival is the business-focused Australian Financial Review.
In May 2010, the newspaper launched the first Australian newspaper iPad
app.
, an asset of News Corporation
, that also owns the sole dailies in Brisbane
, Adelaide
, Hobart
and Darwin
and the most popular metropolitan dailies in Sydney
and Melbourne
. 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
.
on 15 July 1964, becoming the first national newspaper in Australia. Unlike other Murdoch newspapers, it was neither a tabloid nor an acquired publication. From its inception The Australian struggled for financial viability and ran at a loss for several decades
The Australian has long maintained a focus on issues relating to Aboriginal disadvantage." It also devotes attention to the information technology
, Defence
and mining
industries, 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.
'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', sub-titled 'How your Billions Are Being Spent' which contained a large collection of such articles.
The following year, 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. On 16 July 2010 it was reported that Julia Gillard
had admitted that school-building program was flawed and that that errors had been made because the program was designed in haste to protect jobs during the global financial crisis.
, "comfortable with a mainstream Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd
, just as it was quite comfortable with John Howard
." 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.". Its former editor Paul Kelly
has stated that "The Australian has established itself in the marketplace as a newspaper that strongly supports economic libertarianism".
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 Bjorn Lomborg, through to those who disagree that the causes or even presence of global warming are understood, such as Ian Plimer
.
, accused The Australian of waging a compaign against the Australian Greens
, and the Greens' 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."
In April 2011, Leader of the Greens, Bob Brown, accused the Australian of deliberate false reporting in order to discredit the Greens party. He also requested a guarantee that the newspaper would not use surveillance devices against them, and said that he would be willing to debate representatives of the newspaper in public.
Antipathy is also considered to exist toward the centre-Left ALP, the current governing party of Australia. According to Stephen Conroy, the ALP's Communications Minister, The Australian, along with other News Ltd newspapers, is actively seeking to bring down the current government and force an early election.http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-18/conroy-hits-out-at-daily-tele/2798528
, David Burchell
, Peter van Onselen
, Michael Stutchbury
, Simon Adamek, Glenn Milne
, Paul Kelly
, George Megalogenis
, Mike Steketee, Greg Sheridan
, Alan Wood
, Phillip Adams
, Nicolas Rothwell
, Janet Albrechtsen
, Imre Salusinszky
, Tim Soutphommasane
, 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 Cordelia Fine
, Michael Costa, Michael Costello, Frank Devine
and Matt Price
.
was awarded both the Sir Keith Murdoch
Award for Journalism and a Walkley
for investigative journalism
over her coverage of the AWB Oil-for-Wheat Scandal
for the paper. 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.
was its winner of the award for 2010. Previous winners include Kevin Rudd
(2009), Stephen Keim
(2008), Bob Brown
(1983) and Gough Whitlam
.
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 material, from ballads to political satire. The first broadsheet...
newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964. The editor in chief
Editor in chief
An editor-in-chief is a publication's primary editor, having final responsibility for the operations and policies. Additionally, the editor-in-chief is held accountable for delegating tasks to staff members as well as keeping up with the time it takes them to complete their task...
is Chris Mitchell
Chris Mitchell
Chris Mitchell is an Australian journalist 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...
, the editor
Editor
The term editor may refer to:As a person who does editing:* Editor in chief, having final responsibility for a publication's operations and policies* Copy editing, making formatting changes and other improvements to text...
is Clive Mathieson and the 'editor-at-large' is Paul Kelly
Paul Kelly (journalist)
Paul John Kelly is an Australian political journalist and historian from Sydney. He has worked in a variety of roles, principally for The Australian newspaper, and is currently its Editor-at-large. He has written several books on political events since the 1970s including on the Australian...
.
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
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
and Brisbane
Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
. Its chief rival is the business-focused Australian Financial Review.
In May 2010, the newspaper launched the first Australian newspaper iPad
IPad
The iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc., primarily as a platform for audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, and web content. The iPad was introduced on January 27, 2010 by Apple's then-CEO Steve Jobs. Its size and...
app.
Parent companies
The Australian is published by News LimitedNews Limited
News Limited is one of Australia's largest diversified media companies. The publicly listed company's interests span newspaper and magazine publishing, Internet, Pay TV, National Rugby League, market research, DVD and film distribution, and film and television production trading assets.News Limited...
, an asset of News Corporation
News Corporation
News Corporation or News Corp. is an American multinational media conglomerate. It is the world's second-largest media conglomerate as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009, although the BBC remains the world's largest broadcaster...
, that also owns the sole dailies in Brisbane
Brisbane
Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...
, Adelaide
Adelaide
Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...
, Hobart
Hobart
Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Founded in 1804 as a penal colony,Hobart is Australia's second oldest capital city after Sydney. In 2009, the city had a greater area population of approximately 212,019. A resident of Hobart is known as...
and Darwin
Darwin, Northern Territory
Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin has a population of 127,500, making it by far the largest and most populated city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory, but the least populous of all Australia's capital cities...
and the most popular metropolitan dailies in Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
and Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
. News Corporation's Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder is Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch
Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KSG is an Australian-American business magnate. He is the founder and Chairman and CEO of , the world's second-largest media conglomerate....
.
The Australian integrates content from overseas newspapers owned by News Limited's parent, News Corporation
News Corporation
News Corporation or News Corp. is an American multinational media conglomerate. It is the world's second-largest media conglomerate as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009, although the BBC remains the world's largest broadcaster...
, including the Wall Street Journal and The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
.
History
The first edition of The Australian was published by Rupert MurdochRupert Murdoch
Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KSG is an Australian-American business magnate. He is the founder and Chairman and CEO of , the world's second-largest media conglomerate....
on 15 July 1964, becoming the first national newspaper in Australia. Unlike other Murdoch newspapers, it was neither a tabloid nor an acquired publication. From its inception The Australian struggled for financial viability and ran at a loss for several decades
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." It also devotes attention to the information technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
, Defence
Australian Defence Force
The Australian Defence Force is the military organisation responsible for the defence of Australia. It consists of the Royal Australian Navy , Australian Army, Royal Australian Air Force and a number of 'tri-service' units...
and mining
Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an ore body, vein or seam. The term also includes the removal of soil. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock...
industries, 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
Australian Literary Review
The Australian Literary Review was a monthly supplement to The Australian newspaper established in September 2006 and published on the first Wednesday of each month. It was considered to be a continuation of The Australian's Review of Books, which was a supplement published between 1996 and 2001...
has been a monthly supplement.
Notable stories
In 2009, The Australian ran many articles about the Rudd GovernmentRudd Government
The Rudd Government refers to the federal Executive Government of Australia of the Australian Labor Party from 2007 to 2010, led by Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister. The Rudd Government commenced on 3 December 2007, when Rudd was sworn in along with his ministry...
'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', sub-titled 'How your Billions Are Being Spent' which contained a large collection of such articles.
The following year, 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. On 16 July 2010 it was reported that Julia Gillard
Julia Gillard
Julia Eileen Gillard is the 27th and current Prime Minister of Australia, in office since June 2010.Gillard was born in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales and migrated with her family to Adelaide, Australia in 1966, attending Mitcham Demonstration School and Unley High School. In 1982 Gillard moved...
had admitted that school-building program was flawed and that that errors had been made because the program was designed in haste to protect jobs during the global financial crisis.
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 will charge readers $2.95 a week to view all content on its website and mobile phone and tablet applications.Editorials and opinion pages
Mitchell has said that the editorial and op-ed pages of the newspaper are centre-rightCentre-right
The centre-right or center-right is a political term commonly used to describe or denote individuals, political parties, or organizations whose views stretch from the centre to the right on the left-right spectrum, excluding far right stances. Centre-right can also describe a coalition of centrist...
, "comfortable with a mainstream Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd
Kevin Rudd
Kevin Michael Rudd is an Australian politician who was the 26th Prime Minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010. He has been Minister for Foreign Affairs since 2010...
, just as it was quite comfortable with John Howard
John Howard
John Winston Howard AC, SSI, was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. He was the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies....
." 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.". Its former editor Paul Kelly
Paul Kelly (journalist)
Paul John Kelly is an Australian political journalist and historian from Sydney. He has worked in a variety of roles, principally for The Australian newspaper, and is currently its Editor-at-large. He has written several books on political events since the 1970s including on the Australian...
has stated that "The Australian has established itself in the marketplace as a newspaper that strongly supports economic libertarianism".
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
Tim Flannery
Timothy Fridtjof Flannery is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and global warming activist....
, those who agree with the cause but who disagree with the methods of coping with it, such as Bjorn Lomborg, through to those who disagree that the causes or even presence of global warming are understood, such as Ian Plimer
Ian Plimer
Ian Rutherford Plimer is an Australian geologist, academic, professor of mining geology at the University of Adelaide, and a director of four mining companies...
.
Antipathy to The Australian Greens
In September 2010, the ABC's Media Watch presenter Paul BarryPaul Barry
Paul Barry is a British-born, Australian-based journalist, who has won many awards for his investigative reporting. He now works as a senior writer for online media outlet The Power Index.-Career:...
, accused The Australian of waging a compaign against the Australian Greens
Australian Greens
The Australian Greens, commonly known as The Greens, is an Australian green political party.The party was formed in 1992; however, its origins can be traced to the early environmental movement in Australia and the formation of the United Tasmania Group , the first Green party in the world, which...
, and the Greens' federal leader Bob Brown
Bob Brown
Robert James Brown is an Australian senator, the inaugural Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens and was the first openly gay member of the Parliament of Australia...
wrote that The Australian has "stepped out of the fourth estate
Fourth Estate
The concept of the Fourth Estate is a societal or political force or institution whose influence is not consistently or officially recognized. The Fourth Estate now most commonly refers to the news media; especially print journalism, referred to hereon as "The Press"...
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."
In April 2011, Leader of the Greens, Bob Brown, accused the Australian of deliberate false reporting in order to discredit the Greens party. He also requested a guarantee that the newspaper would not use surveillance devices against them, and said that he would be willing to debate representatives of the newspaper in public.
Antipathy is also considered to exist toward the centre-Left ALP, the current governing party of Australia. According to Stephen Conroy, the ALP's Communications Minister, The Australian, along with other News Ltd newspapers, is actively seeking to bring down the current government and force an early election.http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-18/conroy-hits-out-at-daily-tele/2798528
Columnists and contributors
Regular columnists include Dennis ShanahanDennis Shanahan
Dennis Shanahan is a political editor of The Australian, a conservative newspaper in Australia. His son is author and journalist Brendan Shanahan.-References:...
, David Burchell
David Burchell
David Burchell is a senior lecturer in humanities at the University of Western Sydney and a regular columnist for The Australian. He has also contributed articles to the Australian Financial Review and Griffith Review....
, Peter van Onselen
Peter van Onselen
Professor Peter van Onselen is the Contributing Editor at The Australian newspaper where he writes a weekly Saturday Focus column, a Wednesday column for the Business back-page and a fortnightly column in the Higher Education section. He also writes a weekly column in the Sunday Telegraph and...
, Michael Stutchbury
Michael Stutchbury
Michael Stutchbury is The Australian's economics editor. he generally writes from a free market viewpoint, and is critical of a number of the Rudd-Gillard Government's economic policies, particularly on its stimulus packages. and industrial relations....
, Simon Adamek, Glenn Milne
Glenn Milne
Glenn Milne is a Canberra journalist and political commentator. He currently works for News Limited as a columnist for The Australian newspaper....
, Paul Kelly
Paul Kelly (journalist)
Paul John Kelly is an Australian political journalist and historian from Sydney. He has worked in a variety of roles, principally for The Australian newspaper, and is currently its Editor-at-large. He has written several books on political events since the 1970s including on the Australian...
, George Megalogenis
George Megalogenis
George Megalogenis is an Australian journalist, political commentator and author.George is a senior feature writer for The Australian newspaper. He is also a regular on the ABC's political analysis program Insiders, where a panel discusses events in Australian politics.George spent eleven years in...
, Mike Steketee, Greg Sheridan
Greg Sheridan
Greg Sheridan is the foreign editor of The Australian and a right-wing commentator on foreign affairs.Writing on and from the Asian region since the 1980s, Sheridan is an expert on Asian politics, and has written four books on the topic, plus a book on Australia-U.S...
, 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.He began his career as an Engineering Management Trainee...
, Phillip Adams
Phillip Adams
Phillip Andrew Hedley Adams, AO is an Australian broadcaster, film producer, writer, social commentator, satirist and left-wing pundit. He currently hosts a radio program, Late Night Live, four nights a week on the ABC, and he also writes a weekly column for the News Limited-owned newspaper, The...
, Nicolas Rothwell
Nicolas Rothwell
Nicolas Rothwell is a journalist and the Northern Australia correspondent for The Australian newspaper. He is also an award-winning writer with several works of non-fiction to his name.-Background:Rothwell is the child of Czech and Australian parents...
, Janet Albrechtsen
Janet Albrechtsen
Janet Kim Albrechtsen is a conservative Australian opinion columnist with the News Limited-owned newspaper, The Australian. From 2005 through 2010, she was a member of the Board of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia's state-owned national broadcaster.-Early life and...
, Imre Salusinszky
Imre Salusinszky
Imre Salusinszky in an Australian journalist and English literature academic with a strong literary interest in Northrop Frye, a Canadian poet.-Background and career:...
, Tim Soutphommasane
Tim Soutphommasane
Tim Soutphommasane is a French-born Australian writer and newspaper columnist. He is currently a Research Fellow in the National Centre of Australian Studies at Monash University in Melbourne and a senior project leader with the Per Capita think tank....
, Emma Tom
Emma Tom
Emma Jane , previously known as Emma Tom, is an Australian media commentator.She writes a weekly column for The Australian newspaper and also makes regular appearances on Australian television and radio....
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.
Occasional contributors include Gregory Melleuish
Gregory Melleuish
Gregory Melleuish is an Australian associate professor of history and politics at the University of Wollongong. Subjects he teaches include Australian politics, political theory, world history and ancient history . Previously, he taught European history at the University of Melbourne and Australian...
, Kevin Donnelly, Tom Switzer
Tom Switzer
Tom Switzer is editor of The Spectator Australia, succeeding Oscar Humphries in December 2009. He is also a research associate at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney where he teaches American politics and history...
, James Allan
James Allan
James Noble Allan was a Canadian politician.After serving as mayor of Dunnville and warden of Haldimand County along with various other municipal posts, Allan was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 1951 provincial election as the Progressive Conservative Member of...
, Luke Slattery, and Noel Pearson.
Former columnists include Cordelia Fine
Cordelia Fine
Cordelia Fine is an Australian academic psychologist and writer. She is the author of two books on neuroscience, several book chapters and numerous academic publications...
, Michael Costa, Michael Costello, Frank Devine
Frank Devine
Frank Devine was a New Zealand born Australian newspaper editor and journalist. Devine was born in the South Island city of Blenheim and started his career there aged 17 as a cadet on the Marlborough Express. In 1953, Devine took a role with The West Australian in Perth, Western Australia...
and Matt Price
Matt Price
Matt Price was a Western Australian journalist and newspaper columnist. He was educated at Newman College, Churchands and the University of Western Australia, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1984...
.
Awards
In November 2006, The Australian journalist Caroline OveringtonCaroline Overington
Caroline Overington is an Australian journalist and author.Born in May 1970, Overington grew up in Melton, Victoria where she attended Melton South Primary School and Melton High School. Post secondary school she began her journalism cadetship with The Age Suburban Newspapers. She later took up a...
was awarded both the Sir Keith Murdoch
Keith Murdoch
Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch was an Australian journalist and the father of Rupert Murdoch, the CEO and Chairman of News Corp.-Life and career:Murdoch was born in Melbourne in 1885, the son of Annie and the Rev...
Award for Journalism and a Walkley
Walkley
Walkley is an electoral ward in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.Walkley ward—which includes the districts of Netherthorpe, Upperthorpe, Walkley and parts of Neepsend—is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England. It is located in the northwestern part of the city...
for investigative journalism
Investigative journalism
Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, often involving crime, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing. An investigative journalist may spend months or years researching and preparing a report. Investigative journalism...
over her coverage of the AWB Oil-for-Wheat Scandal
AWB Oil-for-Wheat Scandal
The AWB Oil-for-Wheat Scandal refers to the payment of kickbacks to the regime of Saddam Hussein in contravention of the United Nations Oil-for-Food Humanitarian Program. AWB Limited is a major grain marketing organisation based in Australia...
for the paper. The following year, 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 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.
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 HenryKen Henry (Australian public servant)
Dr. Kenneth Ross "Ken" Henry AC is an Australian economist and public servant. He served as the Secretary of the Department of the Treasury from 2001 to 2011. On 1 June 2011, he was appointed as Special Advisor to the Prime Minister...
was its winner of the award for 2010. Previous winners include Kevin Rudd
Kevin Rudd
Kevin Michael Rudd is an Australian politician who was the 26th Prime Minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010. He has been Minister for Foreign Affairs since 2010...
(2009), Stephen Keim
Stephen Keim
Stephen Keim, SC is a Brisbane barrister who represented Indian-born doctor Mohamed Haneef in his application for judicial review of a decision to revoke his Australian visa...
(2008), Bob Brown
Bob Brown
Robert James Brown is an Australian senator, the inaugural Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens and was the first openly gay member of the Parliament of Australia...
(1983) and Gough Whitlam
Gough Whitlam
Edward Gough Whitlam, AC, QC , known as Gough Whitlam , served as the 21st Prime Minister of Australia. Whitlam led the Australian Labor Party to power at the 1972 election and retained government at the 1974 election, before being dismissed by Governor-General Sir John Kerr at the climax of the...
.
See also
- Journalism in AustraliaJournalism in AustraliaJournalism in Australia varies from international practices in areas as diverse as legal freedoms and editorial practices.- History :Most of the published material in the first twenty years of the New South Wales colony was to inform residents of the rules and laws of the time. These were printed...
- List of newspapers in Australia
- Front page of first edition
