news.com.au

news.com.au is a popular Australian online news portal owned by News Corp Australia. It provides English-language coverage of breaking news, politics, sport, entertainment, and lifestyle for a broad general audience. One of the country's most visited news sites, its content is often described as populist with a centre-right lean.

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news.com.au at a glance

Country: Australia
Region: Australia and New Zealand · Oceania
Kind of outlet: News portal
Editorial leaning: Right-leaning
Owner: News Corp Australia
Published from: Sydney
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How Crosswire groups news.com.au

Crosswire groups news.com.au as Right-leaning for comparisons within Australia's directory. This is an approximate Crosswire label, not a verified rating of its individual articles or a claim that every journalist shares one position. In Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age are listed as Left-leaning, while ABC News is listed as Centrist — so you can open news.com.au beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

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This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. Read how Crosswire classifies editorial leanings. This profile does not include an individual assessment citation. Page updated 2026-09-28; this is a content-change date, not a fresh fact-check of the outlet. Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.

Where news.com.au sits in Australia's press

news.com.au is published from Sydney and is owned by News Corp Australia. It is one of 6 outlets tracked in Australia and the only news portal tracked there. By outlets tracked, Australia ranks first of the 8 countries on Crosswire's Oceania hub, which lists 32 outlets in all.

Across Oceania, Crosswire tracks 4 of the 80 news portals in the directory. The nearest counterparts to news.com.au outside Australia, starting with Australia and New Zealand, are Stuff (New Zealand), FijiVillage (Fiji) and Solomon Times (Solomon Islands). Opening one of them beside news.com.au is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.