The Australian
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The Australian is a national daily broadsheet newspaper published by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Headquartered in Sydney, but with bureaux around Australia, it was founded in 1964, losing money for nearly thirty years. Its circulation is still quite small, with a weekday circulation of approximately 130,000 and a Saturday circulation of approximately 295,000.
The Australian treads the Murdoch editorial line on most issues: it supports free-trade economic policy, a realpolitik approach to foreign policy, and is particularly in favour of relaxed regulation of the media sector. Unlike its downmarket stablemates, such as The Daily Telegraph and The Herald Sun,the paper adopts a somewhat liberal approach on social issues. It has a particular focus on foreign news, especially in relation to Australia's immediate neighbours in South-East Asia. On Monday it has a liftout focussing on worldwide issues, on Tuesdays an IT liftouts, Wealth and High Education liftouts on Wednesday, Media and Marketing on Thursdays and an expanded sport liftout on Fridays.
Amongst its regular columnists are the political journalist Paul Kelly, foreign editor Greg Sheridan, left wing highbrow radio broadcaster Phillip Adams, and right wing provocateurs Janet Albrechtsen and Angela Shanahan. It also features daily cartoons from Bill Leak and Peter Nicholson. As the only national daily, its closest competitors in the major Australian markets are the Fairfax broadsheets The Sydney Morning Herald, and Melbourne's The Age.
