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76-549: Defunct Defunct The National Civic Council ( NCC ) is a conservative Christian lobby group in Australia , founded by B. A. Santamaria in the 1940s. The NCC publishes a weekly magazine, News Weekly . The NCC promotes policy based on Santamaria's Catholic values, including opposition to feminism , abortion , same-sex marriage and supporting Christian values along with "the integrity of human life", "the family unit", decentralism and patriotism (including economic). It
152-622: A constitutional monarchy . In the early 20th century, "Conservatism" was used as a disparaging epithet by detractors of right wing politics and politicians within Australia, often by supporters and members of left leaning movements and parties such as the Australian Labor Party and later the Australian Greens . People on the right often called themselves "liberals". That only changed in the late 20th century; John Hirst says that as
228-407: A monarchy or become a republic was a contentious issue in the 1990s. It has since not been a priority for the government as of 2019. In 1998 when debate peaked, Howard took the monarchist position favoured by most conservatives. Howard argued that the monarchy had provided a long period of stability and while he said there was no question that Australia was a fully independent nation, he believed that
304-426: A victim mentality among Aboriginals. Former Aboriginal conservative politicians include: Fairfax Media Fairfax Media was an media company in Australia and New Zealand, with investments in newspaper, magazines, radio and digital properties. The company was founded by John Fairfax as John Fairfax and Sons , who purchased The Sydney Morning Herald in 1841. The Fairfax family retained control of
380-657: A 14 percent stake in the company. Rinehart also sought a position on the Fairfax board. By June 2012, Rinehart had increased her stake in Fairfax Media to 18.67 percent, and was believed to seek three board seats and involvement in editorial decisions. There were reports that Rinehart sought to increase her total share to 19.99%, the maximum allowed before a takeover offer must be made. But provisions in Fairfax Media's insurance policy denied cover for directors owning more than 15%, so Rinehart had to sell down to 14.99%. Rinehart
456-583: A 51% of the combined entity and Fairfax shareholders own 49%. Fairfax Media was delisted from the Australian Securities Exchange in December 2018. Fairfax had a portfolio of print and digital media assets. The Fairfax divisions cover: Fairfax held a 60% stake in Domain Group , a digital real estate business containing Domain.com.au, which was a wholly owned subsidiary until it was spun off as
532-720: A 55% share in Macquarie. A party may hold only two radio licences in each market, so some stations including 2CH and the Macquarie Regional Radio network were sold. In turn, 96FM Perth was sold to Australian Radio Network . The merger was completed in March 2015. In 2015, Fairfax created a partnership with The Huffington Post to launch HuffPost Australia. Drive.com.au is an Australian motoring website founded by in 1996 by Fairfax Media. In 2015 Fairfax outsourced production to 112 Pty Ltd, owner of The Motor Report. After
608-470: A A$ 2.9 billion bid for Fairfax Media, starting a bidding war with TPG Capital for Fairfax. Fairfax opened books to both parties, opening the door for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age to pass into foreign ownership. On 26 July 2018, Fairfax Media and Nine Entertainment Co. announced it had agreed on terms for a merger between the two companies. Shareholders in Nine Entertainment Co. took
684-401: A conservative outlook is represented by Sky News Australia . and ADH TV . Newspapers and other publications owned by News Corp strongly favour the right wing of Australian politics. The publications owned by News Corp include The Australian , The Daily Telegraph , The Mercury , The Advertiser and The Courier-Mail . Sky News is also owned by News Corp. Whether Australia should remain
760-633: A conservative stance. Since the 1970s, the Financial Review has advocated economic liberalism in Australia, driving a consistent editorial line favouring small government , deregulation , privatisation , lower taxes and trade liberalisation . Major conservative regional newspapers include The Daily Telegraph , The West Australian , The Mercury , The Canberra Times , The Advertiser and The Courier-Mail . The primary conservative magazines in Australia are News Weekly , Quadrant and The Spectator Australia . On television,
836-595: A daily business tabloid, The Australian Financial Review . Fairfax also owned papers in major regional centres, including the Illawarra Mercury (Wollongong), The Newcastle Herald (Newcastle), The Border Mail (Albury-Wodonga), The Daily Advertiser (Wagga Wagga), The Warrnambool Standard (Warrnambool), The Courier (Ballarat) and Bendigo Advertiser (Bendigo). In addition, its subsidiary Fairfax Community Newspapers publishes 35 community newspapers serving suburban Victoria and New South Wales . As
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#1732852382969912-572: A market capitalisation of over A$ 5 billion. The number of printed edition readers has fallen since 2006 and the group's stock price has declined by more than 60 percent since 2007, to less than A$ 2 billion by September 2011, and by 85 percent at June 2012. On 11 July 2007, Fairfax Media acquired the former radio assets of Southern Cross Broadcasting (on-sold from Macquarie Media Group's purchase of SCB): 2UE Sydney, 3AW and Magic 1278 Melbourne, 4BC and 4BH Brisbane, and 6PR and 96fm Perth. Graham Mott will continue in his role as general manager of
988-493: A publicly listed company in November 2017. Fairfax Media published metropolitan, agricultural, regional and community newspapers, financial and consumer magazines. In Australia, mastheads include The Sydney Morning Herald , The Age , The Australian Financial Review , The Canberra Times , The Sun-Herald , Stock And Land and The Land . Fairfax published The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald . It also publishes
1064-409: A range of similar classifieds and local newspaper websites. On 21 December 2012, Fairfax Media announced the acquisition of Netus Pty Ltd, a technology investment company. Netus owned 85% of Allure Media . Fairfax purchased the remaining 15 per cent of Allure Media from minority shareholders resulting in Fairfax ownership of 100 per cent of Allure Media. Allure Media own a range of websites, including
1140-466: A result of its Rural Press acquisition, Fairfax took control of many newspapers including The Canberra Times and The Land . On 30 April 2019, Nine announced the sale of Fairfax community papers to former Fairfax Media executive Antony 'The Cat' Catalano for $ 115 million. Fairfax published a number of magazines, such as The Magazine (Sydney) , The Age Magazine (Melbourne) and Good Weekend , which were distributed with their newspapers. In addition,
1216-424: A significant political movement, conservatism is "a very recent arrival in Australia". John Howard , who became prime minister in 1996, was the first holder of the office to describe himself as a conservative." In the 21st century the term covers similar political issues as found in other Western democracies. In the early 20th century the liberals had connections with reform movements. However, as Howard has argued,
1292-613: Is liberal conservatism . On economic issues, conservatives typically support lower taxes and less government spending. Unlike in the United States, mainstream Australian conservatives often support some liberal reforms, such as same-sex marriage (which was legalised by the Coalition government of Malcolm Turnbull ), while typically remaining conservative on other issues such as legalising recreational cannabis . Mainstream Australian conservatives also typically support Australia remaining
1368-584: Is Luke McCormack and there are also a number of state presidents, who co-ordinate local groups in each state. The NCC describes its task as: to expose and counter four key hostile ideologies in defence of human life and the family, inherent human rights and Australia as an independent, free nation: The NCC describes it's "5 Defining Principles" as: In November 2014, former national president, Peter Westmore, attended his daughter Trish's marriage to her female partner Christy in New Zealand, where same-sex marriage
1444-765: Is a far-right anti-Muslim association that works closely with the Australian Liberty Alliance . Some of these may have connections to existing political leaders, such as Senator Cory Bernardi 's Conservative Leadership Foundation (which is dedicated to fostering community based conservative leadership) or explicitly reject party politics in favour of cultural restoration, such as the Sydney Traditionalist Forum and Edmund Burke's Club (which are described as "an association of 'old school' conservative, traditionalist and paleoconservative individuals"). In Australia however there are some differences in
1520-527: Is associated with Liberal/National party reforms of this century (which followed Hawke/Keating reforms) best described as neo-liberal economics. Tony Abbott , who was Australia's Prime Minister from 2013 to 2015, became interested in politics in 1976 after attending a National Civic Council conference. Abbott represented the Democratic Club in the 1970s, which was sponsored by the NCC. Gerard Henderson describes
1596-434: Is branded AIR). MyTalk , a datacasting channel, was officially purchased from Southern Cross Broadcasting on 5 November 2007, and ceased broadcasting on 25 February 2008. In late 2011, John B. Fairfax and his family investment company, Marinya Media, sold their remaining 9.7 percent stake in Fairfax Media for A$ 189 million. The sale came after an earlier dispute between John B. Fairfax and Ron Walker , Chairman of
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#17328523829691672-673: Is seen to be of the New Right . The Menzies Research Centre is an associated entity of the Liberal Party. The Samuel Griffith Society is a legal think tank that advocates constitutional conservatism, federalism and black letter law jurisprudence, and has reportedly been influential in recent Coalition appointments to administrative tribunals and the Judiciary. Apart from political parties, conservative grass-roots movements have also arisen in Australia in recent years. Q Society of Australia
1748-570: Is usually considered socially conservative , while in economics it is critical of both socialist and economic-rationalist trends. The group organised support for Tony Abbott before the spill motion in February 2015 . The NCC evolved in 1957 from the Catholic Social Studies Movement (also known simply as "The Movement") which was founded in the early 1940s by prominent Catholic layman B.A. Santamaria. The Movement worked closely with
1824-536: Is when the Liberal Party emerged, establishing itself as a big tent party of the right, taking influence from classical conservative thinker Edmund Burke . Mainstream political conservatism is primarily represented by the Liberal Party of Australia , and its coalition partner, the National Party , which historically was the party of the conservative small farmers and espoused agrarianism . The Liberal Party
1900-571: The Brisbane Times . The website initially employed 14 journalists and was an attempt by Fairfax to break into the South East Queensland market. On 20 March 2007 Fairfax Media launched a new business website, BusinessDay.com.au that aggregated feeds from the other news vehicles in the Fairfax stable as well as "from the world's most respected news sources". It featured breaking news updated "every 15 minutes". Also in 2007 Fairfax Media bought
1976-831: The Brisbane Times ; and in Western Australia as WAtoday . Both The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald produce a limited amount of video content, which is only available online. As a rival to Nine.com.au 's Nine News and Yahoo7 's Seven News , Fairfax websites previously had non-exclusive licensing deals to replay news video content from broadcaster Network Ten and its former main news service Ten News at Five (now Ten Eyewitness News ). Fairfax's deal with Ten has now discontinued when their news video content are now being shown on Ten's catch-up service, Tenplay which launched in late 2013. From 2014, Fairfax now have non-exclusive licensing deal with Channel Seven by using clips from Seven News with Mark Ferguson . Rural Press owns
2052-635: The Australian Greens . Despite this, there are numerous Aboriginal activists, politicians and individuals affiliated with the political right. The most prominent Aboriginal Conservative was Neville Bonner who was the first Aboriginal Australian elected to federal Parliament. In the Northern Territory , the Country Liberal Party has had a fluctuating relationship with the state's Indigenous communities (even providing Australia's first Indigenous head of government, Adam Giles ) and holds several of
2128-652: The Democratic Labor Party , One Nation Party , Liberal Democratic Party , Family First Party , Australian Christians , Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party , and Katter's Australian Party , although some would not champion the classical liberal approach to economics adopted by the Liberal Party. In the 45th Australian Senate , the Liberal Democratic Party's David Leyonhjelm , the Independent Cory Bernardi , Independent Fraser Anning and
2204-516: The Industrial Groups , which were formed within the Australian Labor Party to combat the influence and infiltration of the Communist Party in trade unions. The Movement, and later the NCC, had close links with the original Democratic Labor Party . The organisation's website states that its "primacies" are "The family as the basic unit of society," opposition to "excessive centralization,"
2280-599: The Institute of Public Affairs advocates free market economic policies such as privatisation and deregulation of state-owned enterprises , trade liberalisation and deregulated workplaces, climate change scepticism , the abolition of the minimum wage, and the repeal of parts of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 . The H. R. Nicholls Society focuses on industrial relations , and advocates full workplace deregulation, contains some Liberal MPs as members and
2356-710: The Navy (1969–1971), James Killen , was considered to be a Tory, or a "Tory Liberal", especially in his younger years. Unlike the various forms of conservatism across the world, especially in the United Kingdom and the United States , Australian conservatism has a short history. In the late 19th century, the Free Trade Party and the Protectionist Party were the two major parties in Australia. The Free Trade Party
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2432-455: The "right to life" from fertilisation to natural death, patriotism, and "Judeo-Christian values." The NCC publishes a fortnightly magazine, News Weekly , and formerly a journal of religious opinion called AD2000 which ceased in 2017. Former national president, Patrick J. Byrne, is the author of two books, Transgender: One shade of grey , and The Little Grey book on Sex and Transgender . The previous former national president, Peter Westmore,
2508-456: The "separation of the ceremonial and executive functions of government" and the presence of a neutral "defender of constitutional integrity" was an advantage in government and that no republican model would be as effective in providing such an outcome as the Australian constitutional monarchy . Despite opinion polls suggesting Australians favoured a republic, the 1999 republic referendum rejected
2584-416: The 1980s), and through John B. Fairfax of Rural Press, saw the return of the Fairfax family to the company board. The company also gained a number of other regional newspapers, radio stations and websites; plus agricultural publications in various countries. On 12 January 2007, John Fairfax Holdings changed its name to Fairfax Media. On 7 March 2007, Fairfax Media announced a new website for Brisbane, called
2660-474: The 1990s, the label "conservative" had rarely been used in Australia, and when used it tended to be used by pro-Labour forces as a term of disparagement against their opponents. Electorally, conservatism has been the most successful political brand in Australian history. Like other countries with a Westminster system of government (but unlike the United States ), the mainstream form of conservatism in Australia
2736-645: The AFA and the NCC). In 2014, the NCC represented at a "strengthening the family" conference organised to support the World Congress of Families . The NCC emerged from the Labour movement as a grass roots response to radical elements within some Labor Party branches who were involved with the Communist Party of Australia . While conservative on many social issues, the NCC is firmly opposed to so-called 'conservative economics' that which
2812-643: The Australian licenses for Lifehacker , Gizmodo and Kotaku . Fairfax Syndication manages the commercial licensing and distribution of text, photographic and multimedia content to media companies and commercial clients worldwide. Fairfax Syndication has enabled instant online licensing and has developed a customised syndication application 'API' that allows existing and future syndication clients access to real-time content from multiple websites for immediate use on other platforms. The division also represents their image library and photo syndication service containing over 16 million images. The New Zealand subsidiary
2888-471: The Australian usage refers to free markets and small government ). Moser and Catley state, "In America, 'liberal' means left-of-center, and it is a pejorative term when used by conservatives in adversarial political debate. In Australia, of course, the conservatives are in the Liberal Party." Jupp points out that, "[the] decline in English influences on Australian reformism and radicalism, and appropriation of
2964-556: The Board of Fairfax Media, which led to the very public departure of Walker. Continued poor performance of Fairfax Media in light of changing news services was cited as one of the reasons for the sale of Marinya Media's interests in Fairfax. John B. Fairfax had earlier stood down from the Fairfax board, and his son, Nick Fairfax, was reported to be discussing his future with the rest of the company board. In 2012, mining billionaire Gina Rinehart became Fairfax's biggest shareholder, purchasing
3040-602: The InvestSMART business to Australasian Wealth Investments Limited, now called InvestSMART Group Limited, for A$ 7M. In August 2005, Fairfax ended its 16-month search for a new chief executive officer with David Kirk , a former Rugby Union World Cup winning captain of the New Zealand All Blacks being appointed to replace departing CEO Fred Hilmer . David Kirk got the job ahead of Fairfax COO Brian Evans (former head of Fairfax New Zealand) and Doug Flynn , who took
3116-547: The Liberal Party became the trustee of both the classical liberal and conservative traditions. That is, it combines liberal (market-based, pro-business, anti-union) economic policies with conservative social policies. Although used much less than the term conservative, former Prime Minister Scott Morrison ( Liberal ) described himself as a traditionalist upon his ascent to party leader and appointment as Prime Minister (2018–2022). Similarly, former Liberal MP for Moreton (1955–1983) and Minister for Defence (1975–1982) and
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3192-431: The NCC as Abbott's "original spiritual and political home in politics". Various media sources have reported that a NCC email campaign helped in part to secure Abbott's position as prime minister before the spill motion in February 2015 . Senator Eric Abetz stated before the spill: "In the last few days the emails have been overwhelmingly flooding the office saying all this nonsense about leadership has gone far too far, and
3268-634: The United Australia Party's Brian Burston formerly formed a "conservative bloc". Since the 2010s, an increasing number of prominent conservative members of the Liberal/National coalition have left the party, such as in 2017 with Senator Cory Bernardi and in 2022 with MP George Christensen . Some think tanks in Australia have a conservative focus. The Centre for Independent Studies , for example, focuses on classical liberal issues such as free markets and limited government , while
3344-479: The broadcast radio group under Fairfax. Mott indicated at the time of the acquisition that national syndication of programming (such as that of the since-retired John Laws ) would largely be replaced on the network with more localised syndication at a state level. Fairfax also acquired Satellite Music Australia (SMA) as part of the SCB deal, who provide music channels to retailers, as well as Foxtel and Austar (where it
3420-410: The broadsheet Sunday Herald . In 1987, Warwick Fairfax , then aged 26, bought out his family's holdings in the company using borrowed debts. He successfully took ownership of the company, selling some properties to his half-brother John B. Fairfax, who formed Rural Press . On 10 December 1990, the company collapsed and a receiver was appointed, with company debts of A$ 1.7 billion. By 1993,
3496-464: The brunt of the cuts, with 160 full-time employees losing their jobs. On 5 December, David Kirk tendered his resignation, and on 10 December Brian McCarthy (former Rural Press CEO) was appointed as CEO. A new campaign, "Fair Go, Fairfax: Don't discount journalism", was launched by the MEAA in protest to the cuts arguing that the jobs losses will affect "quality journalism". As of May 2008 Fairfax Media had
3572-519: The business until late in the 20th century. The company also owned several regional and national Australian newspapers, including The Age , Australian Financial Review and Canberra Times , majority stakes in property business Domain Group and the Macquarie Radio Network , and joint ventures in streaming service Stan and online publisher HuffPost Australia . The group's last chairman
3648-454: The company in December 1990. It was renamed from John Fairfax Holdings to Fairfax Media in 2007. The Australian Financial Review was founded in 1951. In that decade, Fairfax started two television stations, ATN and QTQ . Fairfax began expanding in the 1960s, acquiring, among others, The Age , The Newcastle Herald and the Illawarra Mercury . In 1979, Rupert Murdoch attempted to acquire rival The Herald and Weekly Times . Due to
3724-583: The company published business-centered magazines including BRW (since December 2013, only published online), AFR Smart Investor , AFR Magazine , AFR Boss , CFO Australia , MIS (magazine) and Asset (Magazine) . Fairfax owned a profitable Australian online subsidiary, Fairfax Digital, which was once known as the F2 Network. Fairfax publishes web editions of most of its newspaper titles, as well as digital only news sites in South East Queensland as
3800-598: The company was re-listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and the two biggest shareholders of John Fairfax Holdings were the Canadian newspaper magnate Conrad Black and his Hollinger Group with 25%, and the Australian media mogul, Kerry Packer and his publicly listed company, Publishing and Broadcasting Limited with 15%. Due to Australian government concerns over media consolidation that limited any single foreign shareholder holding more than 25% interest in national and metropolitan newspapers, after intense lobbying for
3876-563: The costs of defending the acquisition, Fairfax sold its television properties, including the Seven Network . In 1988, Fairfax sold its magazines (including Woman's Day , People , Dolly , and Good Housekeeping ) to Australian Consolidated Press , and discontinued its Sydney afternoon tabloid The Sun , transferring some of its content and the sponsorship of the City to Surf to its new Sunday tabloid The Sun-Herald which also replaced
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#17328523829693952-525: The date of Australia Day , describing the proposal as " virtue-signaling ". Kerrynne Liddle is a former journalist and Arrernte woman originally from Alice Springs. At the 2022 she was elected as a Liberal Senator for South Australia . Originally a member of Labor, former Indigenous Advisory Council (IAC) member Warren Mundine has since shifted toward the political right. Mundine has criticised what he describes as efforts to introduce " critical race theory " in Australian schools, arguing it promotes
4028-575: The emails are now overwhelmingly saying 'stick to the team you've got'". In 1999, Abetz was a speaker on "the family" at Family Council of Victoria (a "front" group dominated by the National Civic Council's Australian Family Association). Abetz also spoke at the NCC in November 2011. The NCC has its national office in Melbourne, as well as ones in Brisbane and Perth. The current NCC national president
4104-435: The group as Nine Publishing . Many of its other assets, such as its community media holdings were sold shortly after the merger was completed. John Fairfax purchased The Sydney Morning Herald in 1841. Several generations of the Fairfax family continued to control the company. Fairfax Media was founded by the Fairfax family as John Fairfax and Sons, later to become John Fairfax Holdings. The Fairfax family lost control of
4180-687: The interests of farmers. After the 1922 federal election , which produced a hung parliament, the Country Party and the Nationalist Party (the successor to the Commonwealth Liberal Party) formed a conservative coalition . The Nationalist Party later became the United Australia Party in 1931. After the United Australia Party collapsed in 1945, conservative forces within Australia were in disarray and were seen as irrelevant. This
4256-410: The model proposed by the 1998 convention involving appointment of the head of state by Parliament. Conservatives generally support keeping the current flag (with its British insignia) and are proud of the nation's British heritage. Traditionally, Aboriginal Australians in cities have been known to predominantly vote for parties of the political left, such as the Australian Labor Party or
4332-531: The party system this way. This was welcomed by politicians who were influenced by the Westminster tradition and who regarded a two-party system as the norm. In 1909, the two parties merged to form the Commonwealth Liberal Party to more effectively oppose the new Labor Party . In 1920, the Country Party (now known as the National Party ) was formed as an agrarian conservative party representing
4408-487: The passage of changes to Australian media laws. Rival media company News Corp Australia purchased a 7.5 per cent stake in the company at this time, This was with the stated aim of keeping Fairfax in one piece. On 7 December 2006, John Fairfax Holdings and Rural Press announced the beginning of their merger proceedings. Once merged, the new entity formed a publishing company worth A$ 9 billion and resulted in regaining control of The Canberra Times (which it owned in
4484-537: The political landscape in which conservatism exists, compared to what is found in other countries, especially in economics. Australia undertook in the mid-1980s significant economic reforms – faith in markets, deregulation, a reduced role for government, low protection and the creation of a new cooperative enterprise culture – under the centre-left Australian Labor Party and especially under social liberal Paul Keating ." Two national newspapers in Australia, The Australian and The Australian Financial Review , take
4560-567: The political philosophy of conservatism as it has developed in Australia. Politics in Australia has, since at least the 1910s, been most predominantly a contest between the Australian labour movement (primarily the Australian Labor Party ) and the combined forces of anti-Labour groups (primarily the Liberal - National Coalition ). The anti-Labour groups have at times identified themselves as " free trade ", " nationalist ", " anti-communist ", "liberal", and " right of centre ", among other labels; until
4636-470: The radio assets of Southern Cross Broadcasting . Macquarie Media Group purchased Southern Cross for A$ 1.35 billion and onsold these assets to the Fairfax Group. On 26 August 2007, Kirk and Deputy CEO Brian McCarthy announced that 550 staff would be cut as part of a "business improvement" programme. The staff reductions would take place in both Australia and New Zealand, with the latter country bearing
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#17328523829694712-408: The remaining 15% from minority shareholders. Allure Media own a range of websites, including the Australian licenses for Business Insider, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, and Kotaku. In 2014, Fairfax Media founded online streaming company Stan with Nine Entertainment , investing $ 50 million into the joint venture. In December 2014, Fairfax merged with Macquarie Radio Network . Under the deal, Fairfax gained
4788-399: The right to increase his stake, Black conceded defeat in 1996, selling his holding to the New Zealand corporate raider Brierley Investments , that was ultimately subject to the same restrictions. In 2003, Fairfax acquired many of New Zealand's highest-profile newspapers when it bought the publishing assets of that country's Independent Newspapers Limited , whose cornerstone shareholder
4864-488: The symbols of Empire by conservatives continued under the Liberal Party leadership of Sir Robert Menzies , which lasted until 1966." Beecher comments that, "across the economic and cultural landscape, Howard proved that the centre of politics in Australia is inherently conservative." There are also other minor parties which may be perceived to be conservative in orientation on account of some of their policies - and even some are regarded as right wing or extreme right, such as
4940-429: The takeover of Fairfax Media by Nine Entertainment , in 2019 is merged with the latter's CarAdvice platform. In March 2016, many staff from its newspaper divisions went on a 4-day strike over planned job cuts of 120 editorial staff from The Sydney Morning Herald , The Age and The Australian Financial Review . All printed and digital editions continued during the action. On May 18, 2017, Hellman & Friedman made
5016-665: The territory's electorates with large Aboriginal populations. Jacinta Price is a well-known conservative activist of Warlpiri descent who was elected to the Senate for the Country Liberal Party representing Northern Territory in 2022 . Price has argued against claims of systemic racism against Aboriginals in the criminal justice system, instead arguing that " black-on-black violence " is most pressing in Aboriginal communities. Unlike many Aboriginal activists, Price opposes changing
5092-483: The top job at UK Pest control company Rentokil after negotiations with Fairfax broke off. In March 2006, Fairfax acquired New Zealand auction website Trademe.co.nz for NZ$ 700 million. On 4 March 2006, it was announced that Fairfax would purchase The Border Mail newspaper in Albury-Wodonga for A$ 162 million. In October 2006, speculation began to grow that the company would be bought out and split up after
5168-684: Was News Corp Australia . In July 2005, Fairfax acquired the RSVP dating site for A$ 38 million. In August 2005, Fairfax's general classifieds site created in March 2004, Cracker.com.au consistently exceeded 500,000 unique visitors a month. In December 2005, Fairfax acquired Stayz Pty Ltd for A$ 12.7 million. This investment proved to be successful as Stayz was sold on 27 November 2013, for $ 220 million, exceeding its estimated net debt of $ 154 million. In September 2007, Fairfax acquired online funds management business, InvestSMART, from founders Ron Hodge and Nigel Poole for A$ 12M. In August 2013, Fairfax sold
5244-480: Was Nick Falloon and the CEO was Greg Hywood . On 26 July 2018, Fairfax Media and Nine Entertainment Co. announced it had agreed on terms for a merger between the two companies. Shareholders in Nine Entertainment Co. took a 51% of the combined entity and Fairfax shareholders own 49%. Fairfax Media was delisted from the Australian Securities Exchange in December 2018. Its metro publishing assets continue to be published by
5320-498: Was a candidate at the 1975 federal election for the original Democratic Labor Party. Westmore took over from the founder Santamaria in 1998. The Australian Family Association (AFA) is an affiliate of the NCC which maintains a high profile on a range of social issues. (Not to be confused with the Australian Family Movement , which was created as a conservative Christian political party in the 1970s by some supporters of
5396-412: Was denied a place on the board because she would not agree to Fairfax's charter of independence, and sold her stake in 2015. On 18 June 2012, as part of evolving to a sustainable model for its news media business, Fairfax Media announced it would cut 1,900 staff and begin to erect digital paywalls around its two main metropolitan news brands, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age . It also announced it
5472-399: Was formed in 1944 as a successor of the United Australia Party , which had been formed in 1931 as a successor of the Nationalist Party and ideologically similar parties that preceded it. The Liberal Party's ideology has been described as conservative, liberal-conservative , conservative-liberal , and classical liberal . The Liberal Party tends to promote economic liberalism (which in
5548-626: Was generally more conservative while the Protectionist Party was generally more liberal (though both parties contained liberal and conservative factions). When the Australian labour movement emerged, both parties began attempting to form a united alliance against it. George Reid , the leader of the Free Trade Party between 1901 and 1905, and Prime Minister of Australia from 1904 to 1905, imagined an Australian political spectrum that ran from socialist to anti-socialist, and attempted to reframe
5624-619: Was made legal in 2013. He said his daughter's wedding had his blessing: "She always has my blessing in everything she does". Asked on 24 March 2015 if he still supported the NCC's opposition to same-sex marriage, he said: "Of course I do". Westmore did not respond when queried about the apparent inconsistency between his personal and his political positions on the issue. He asked Fairfax Media to "respect" his family's privacy. Conservatism in Australia Defunct [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Conservatism in Australia refers to
5700-453: Was named Fairfax New Zealand Limited until 2018, when it was renamed Stuff Limited to align with the name of its flagship website . It was sold to its CEO Sinead Boucher in a management buyout for $ 1 NZD in 2020. Parent company Nine retained most of the proceeds of the sale of Stuff's broadband subsidiary to Vocus Group , and maintained control of its Wellington printing press operation. On 1 September 2011, Fairfax New Zealand announced
5776-440: Was shifting to "compact" or tabloid-sized editions of the broadsheet newspapers from March 2013, and that its two printing facilities at Chullora and Tullamarine would close. The changes, prompted by shrinking advertising revenue, were expected to generate A$ 235 million in annual savings over three years. In 2012, Fairfax Media acquired Netus Pty Ltd, a technology investment company which owned 85% of Allure Media, and purchased
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