World news | The GuardianABC staff to strike for first time in 20 years with widespread news disruption expected https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/23/abc-staff-strike-first-time-20-years #AustralianBroadcastingCorporation #AustralianMedia #IndustrialRelations #AustraliaNews
Sports writer and photographer win Quill awards for work for Guardian Australia https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/20/sports-writer-and-photographer-win-quill-awards-for-work-for-guardian-australia #AustralianMedia #Melbourne #AustraliaNews
ACM to brief staff after co-owner Antony Catalano charged with assault of a woman https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/16/australian-community-media-to-share-response-to-co-owners-alleged-violence-charge-with-staff-ntwnfb #AustralianMedia #Media #Victoria #AustraliaNews #Newspapers #Business #NewspapersMagazines
Kiis FM banned from airing strong sexual content on Kyle and Jackie O shows for five years https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/16/kyle-and-jackie-o-sexual-content-ban-kiis-fm #AustralianMedia #AustraliaNews
Urban Wronski WritesThe First Casualty
They told you Iran's missiles were being swatted from the sky. They told you the Iron Dome was holding, the Patriot batteries were working, US and Israeli air power was surgical and winning. They told you this on the ABC. They told you this on Sky. They were telling you nonsense. MIT Professor Ted Postol — the man who proved the Patriot missile failed in the Gulf War while presidents were claiming a 97 percent success rate — has now established that current intercept rates against Iranian missiles run at a few percent at most. The systems are depleting. The decoys are multiplying. The official story is, in his own carefully chosen word, a fraud. The first casualty of war is truth. But the deeper insight, the one Phillip Knightley identified fifty years ago, is that the lies are not random. They serve purposes. And right now, they are serving purposes that Australians have every right to examine.
The Guardian FeedsKyle Sandilands apologises to former co-host Jackie ‘O’ Henderson and says he wants program back on air
By Caitlin Cassidy
Kiis FM radio host accuses ARN of not running ‘genuine process’ before terminating Henderson’s contract and suspending him following pair’s on-air fight
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/10/kyle-sandilands-jackie-o-dispute-apology
#Australianmedia #NewSouthWales #Media #Australianews #CaitlinCassidy
Jackie O says she ‘did not quit or resign’ from hit radio show after on-air bust with Kyle Sandilands https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/06/jackie-o-statement-quit-resign-kyle-sandilands-kiis-fm-radio-hosts-ntwnfb #AustralianMedia #Media #AustraliaNews #NewSouthWales
Plibersek accuses Mafs of platforming ‘coercive control’ after contestant wanted a woman ‘obedient’ like a dog https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/04/mafs-coercive-control-plibersek-ntwnfb #TanyaPlibersek #AustraliaNews #MarriedAtFirstSightAustralia #AustralianTelevision #AustralianMedia #AustralianPolitics
Albanese says One Nation doesn’t ‘represent working people’ and claims Pocock ‘seeks to promote grievance’ https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/24/albanese-says-one-nation-doesnt-represent-working-people-and-claims-pocock-seeks-to-promote-grievance-ntwnfb #AnthonyAlbanese #AustralianMedia #AustraliaNews #DavidPocock #Media #AustralianPolitics #OneNation
Mojo ♻️@ecoscore Yeah, fair point. But let's be real: most of those outlets are niche, subscriber funded, or comedy shows scrapping for survival. The big players (Nine, News Corp, even the ABC at times) are too busy pulling punches, chasing clicks, or cosying up to power.
Then there's Friendlyjordies. Solo act. No corporate leash. He's out here dropping long form deep dives with actual receipts, digging into Angus Taylor's water rorts and breaking down the Liberals' slow motion suicide pact. Real research. Real footage.
It's not that the others aren't doing good work. It's that a YouTuber who's been firebombed and threatened for telling the truth is often the only one going full throttle on the rot, because he doesn't have advertisers or access to lose.
That's where Australian journalism is in 2026.
Still, respect to every indie holding the line. We need more of them. Not fewer.