There is little transparency of data on the country’s leading news media, and little has changed in the last decade. Therefore, the scenario is pretty similar to the one Josephi (2011) pictured in the previous MDM edition. While information is available on the Internet, for example on the media companies’ websites, it takes a dedicated citizen to piece together the full picture of the media in Australia. Although bodies such as the ACMA authority publish annual reports, these hardly ever come onto the radar of the general public. The government and their regulators, universities, or the main media union may offer information on specialised aspects of the media, but this rarely amounts to a coherent or comprehensive picture of the Australian media. Commercial media are themselves highly positional and therefore not a reliable source of information. It must be assumed that the average Australian citizen has little or no knowledge of the political economy of the Australian (news) media.
