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Australian media is among the most concentrated in ownership of any developed country. A large share of the newspaper market is held by a small number of groups, a situation that has been the subject of parliamentary inquiries and public argument for decades. That News Corp, one of the largest media companies in the world, was founded in Australia — and that its founder moved from here into the British and American markets — makes the country's media history internationally interesting as well.
The counterweight is public broadcasting. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, created in 1932, has editorial independence secured in statute and is funded from the federal budget. Its network covers rural and remote areas that commercial broadcasters could not serve economically, and during bushfires and floods ABC transmissions function as the official emergency information channel. A separate institution, SBS, is devoted to multicultural broadcasting and publishes in dozens of languages — the broadcasting expression of a country built by migration.
Third, Australia was among the first countries in the world to legislate on the relationship between journalism and platforms: a 2021 code required large platforms to reach agreements with publishers for news content. It was watched closely abroad and became a model for similar laws elsewhere.
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7NEWS is the news service of the Seven Network within Seven West Media and produces among the most watched commercial bulletins in Australia.
The network's stations in the state capitals produce their own local bulletins, which gives the national service broad access to local reporting. Sports broadcasting is a strength of the group and feeds the news service's capacity in that area.
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9News is the news service of the Nine Network within Nine Entertainment. In 2018 the group merged with the long-established newspaper publisher Fairfax Media to become one of Australia's largest media groups — a merger that brought newspaper and television journalism under one roof and reopened the argument about media concentration.
9News bulletins are produced separately in the state capitals. The group's newspaper resources, the long-established titles of Sydney and Melbourne, feed the news service's investigative capacity.
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ABC News is the news service of Australia's public broadcaster, the ABC. The corporation was created in 1932, its editorial independence is secured in statute, and it is funded from the federal budget without advertising.
Its most distinctive capability is disaster coverage. Australia lives with bushfires, floods and cyclones, and in those conditions the ABC's regional radio network functions as the official emergency information channel, interrupting the schedule to carry local warnings. That is the concrete and vital meaning of public broadcasting.
ABC News broadcasts as a rolling news channel and has particular depth in coverage of the Asia-Pacific.
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