In Australia, the rule is simple. Follow the money. Trust self-interest. Never bite the hand that feeds you. The Journalism Assistance Fund has just handed out tens of millions in wage subsidies to newsrooms. Nine Entertainment took the largest slice at $16.1 million. Its mastheads include the Sydney
Every elite class eventually develops its own sacred causes. In the current managerial era those causes are rapid climate timelines, gender ideology in schools, sport, and medicine, and open borders with minimal emphasis on integration or selection. All three dominate conversations inside universities, media, NGOs, and the bureaucracy. All three
The sun, famously, sends no invoice. The wires that carry its electrons very much do. For a decade the political class has been selling Australians on "the cheapest form of new generation in history," which on a marginal-cost basis is true: Grattan keeps showing the working, and
Donald Trump posted it in caps lock on Truth Social. The White House amplified it on X. The Dutch front-paged it in De Volkskrant. The Germans ran it in Die Welt. New Zealand's Daily Telegraph found space. Australian media: nothing. The story they all ran — and we
Australia has the second-most concentrated media market in the developed world. The largest player by readership owns Sky News and The Australian. If you tried to guess the country's Trump coverage from a flowchart of who owns what, you'd miss by a kilometre. Because aggregate
Australia is the world's third-largest LNG exporter — and it's about to start importing LNG.
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