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Type | Newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | News Corp Australia |
Editor-in-chief | Michelle Gunn[1] |
Editor | Kelvin Healey[1] |
Founded | 14 July 1964 |
Political alignment | Centre-right[2][3] |
Headquarters | Surry Hills, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
Country | Australia |
Circulation | 810,000 (print); 2,394,000 (cross-platform) – Sep 2019[4] |
ISSN | 1038-8761 |
Website | www |
The Australian, with its Saturday edition The Weekend Australian, is a daily newspaper in broadsheet format published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964.[5][6][7][8] As the only Australian daily newspaper distributed nationally, its readership as of September 2019[update] of both print and online editions was 2,394,000. Its editorial line has been self-described over time as centre-right.[3][9]
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).Chris Mitchell's time as editor-in-chief further consolidated a long period of managerial stability and elaborated a conservative identity for The Australian. (p. 6) ... Any criticism of the conservative order that The Australian stands to defend is not even acknowledged as a disagreement, or a legitimate but wrong-headed point of view (p. 12)
The Australian has long positioned itself as a loyal supporter of the incumbent government of Prime Minister John Howard, and is widely regarded as generally favouring the conservative side of politics.
This article reviews the relationship between the conservative newspaper The Australian and the development of a national history curriculum in Australia.
The article demonstrates that a culture of aggressive conservatism exercised in this Murdoch press outlet reaches beyond the field of conventional political debate to constitute a serious and concerning influence in the dynamics of curriculum policy development.
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