ABC News
ABC News is the news service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia's publicly funded national broadcaster. It provides English-language coverage of domestic politics, international affairs, business, and culture across television, radio, and online. The ABC operates under a statutory charter requiring impartiality and is one of Australia's most trusted and widely used news sources.
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Is ABC News left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?
ABC News is listed as Center on Crosswire: as a public-service broadcaster its mandate is broad, balanced coverage rather than a party-political editorial line. In Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age are listed as Left-leaning, while The Australian and news.com.au are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open ABC News beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
Read ABC News beside another title from Australia and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Public-service broadcasters usually carry a wider spread of civic, regional and cultural stories than commercial rivals, and lead less often on conflict or celebrity — so the gap between ABC News's front page and a commercially funded one is often less about opinion than about what each considers newsworthy in the first place. Because ABC News is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning title from Australia either side of it and the direction each one pulls becomes measurable rather than impressionistic.
This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. Read how Crosswire classifies editorial leanings, including the sources behind each label. Directory last reviewed . Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.
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