There's a total reluctance by journalists in Australia to get online and run their own show.
Nobody wants to leave the established mainstream press.
There's no Drudge here. The income he makes does not even cover his mortgage repayments, he claims. Mr Mayne says few Australian journalists are entrepreneurial, and the economics of setting up and running in a site in a country with a population of just 18 million do not add up. One of Australia's few successful independent web journals is On Line Opinion , assembled over two days each week by Queensland businessman and publisher Graham Young. In two years the site has risen from fewer than 100 hits per month to 19,000 per month.