Sky News Australia

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'''Sky News Australia''' is a 24-hour satellite and cable news channel that exists in [[Australia]] providing news and opinion on the politics Down Under and in the Pacific. It is one of only two such channels in Australia, with other one being the public broadcaster [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC News channel]]. It is owned by [[Rupert Murdoch|News Corp Australia]], who also owns much of the media in the Pacific including the several newspapers such as ''The Australian'', ''The Daily Telegraph'', the ''Advertiser'' and the ''Courier-Mail''.

In the past it used to be affiliated with the [[United Kingdom|British]] channel of the same name, Sky News, however Sky UK was purchased in 2020 by Comcast, which also owns [[MSNBC]]. The two now have no link and only share the name and a similar logo — Sky News UK is a fairly normal centrist news channel. Sky News UK occasionally takes the piss out of Sky News Australia.

It is probably the only real Jekyll and Hyde channel in existence. During the day, it is a straight up news channel like any other news channel like the American [[CNN]] or the British [[BBC|BBC World News]]. However, in the evening which it calls ''"After Dark"'', it turns in a local version of [[Fox News]] with [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal Party]] and [[One Nation]] [[Pundit|talking heads]]. Notable rent-a-gobs includes; openly racist newspaper columnist [[Andrew Bolt]], sports caster {{wpl|Alan Jones (radio broadcaster)|Alan Jones}} who famously suggested that the prime minister [[Scott Morrison]] should put a sock down the throat of his [[Draft:Jacinda Ardern|New Zealand counterpart]],<ref>[https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/115045951/australian-pm-slams-alan-jones-call-to-shove-a-sock-down-throat-of-jacinda-ardern Australian PM slams Alan Jones' call to 'shove a sock down throat' of Jacinda Ardern] ''Stuff NZ''</ref> <ref group=note>Alan Jones didn't say this on Sky News Australia, but on his show on the radio station 2GB. He has since then apologised on air, and his contract wasn't renewed.</ref> Trumpian {{wpl|Paul Murray (presenter)|Paul Murray|,}} [[Tony Abbott]]’s former chief of staff {{wpl|Peta Credlin||,}} and former Liberal media adviser {{wpl|Chris Kenny||.}} The current chief executive of [[GB News]] Angelos Frangopoulos, worked beforehand at Sky News Australia. 

The channel has been regularly criticised by the ABC's long-running media analysis programme ''Media Watch'' for [[conservative bias]], agenda pushing and [[climate change denial]].<ref>[https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/pitman/11601084 Sky’s drought hero], ABC Media Watch</ref><ref>[https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/ice-age-warning/9972248 Ice Age warning], ABC Media Watch</ref> The channel has been up for [[COVID-19 denialism|COVID-19 denial]]<ref>[https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/jones/13450962 Dangerous and misleading], ''ABC Media Watch''</ref> and pushing unscientific remedies including [[COVID-19 pandemic#Calling Doctor Howard, Doctor Fine… Doctor Trump|hydroxychloroquine]] and [[COVID-19 pandemic#Ivermectin|ivermectin]], which has led to the channel being 
hit with a wet noodle
 banned from [[YouTube]] for a week.<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/technology/sky-news-australia-says-suspended-youtube-one-week-2021-08-01/ Sky News Australia says suspended from YouTube for one week], ''Reuters''</ref>

==External links==
* [https://www.skynews.com.au Sky News Australia's website]
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