The Age
The Age is Melbourne's metropolitan daily, founded in 1854 and owned by Nine Entertainment following its 2018 merger with Fairfax Media. Alongside its Sydney stablemate it produces subscription-funded quality journalism covering Victorian and national affairs, and its editorial outlook is generally characterized as centre-left, contrasting with News Corp's Melbourne tabloid the Herald Sun.
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Is The Age left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?
The Age is generally regarded as left-leaning in its editorial orientation, according to widely cited media-bias assessments of Australia's press. In Australia, ABC News is listed as Centrist, while The Australian and news.com.au are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open The Age beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
Read The Age beside another title from Australia and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Two dailies from Australia covering the same day will usually agree on the facts and differ on the ordering: which story is worth the top of the page, how the headline characterises it, and which follow-ups get space. Those are The Age's editorial choices, and they are easiest to see side by side. Because The Age is listed as left-leaning, the sharpest contrast is usually a right-leaning title from Australia on the same morning: the facts rarely differ, but which consequence is treated as the story often does.
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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