what's the best Australian news media?

Absolutely none. I don’t trust a single outlet. ABC is blatant left wing tripe, and the rest just randomly shift between far left social views and centre right fiscal policies with a majority of filler news being irrelevant or sensationalist. I would suggest look for something in another country for your news. Most Australian news these days has a hard on for reporting immensely obscure facts about Donald Trump that don’t even make the headlines in the USA. I have no political agenda, but why the fuck should an Australian care that Trump’s wife didn’t hold his hand?

All in all the news is very untrustworthy here and they don’t seem to care about being unbiased. While I can’t comment on American news outlets the phenomena of ‘fake news’ is certainly rife here. Australian news often takes an opinion, presents it as a fact and then talks about it like you’re a cunt if you don’t hold the same views.

The best you can do is watch foreign news, watch a little of everything and try to average it out. Apart from opinion based statements I’d suggest you stay clear of Australian news (doesn’t help that most of it is owned by one dude, good ol Murdoch)

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