# Sky News Australia

> Sky News Australia is a news source in the TOLD catalogue, based in Australia. TOLD classifies its editorial position as **Right**.

- **Domain:** skynews.com.au
- **Website:** https://www.skynews.com.au
- **Country:** Australia
- **Region:** Oceania
- **Language:** English
- **Editorial position on TOLD:** Right
- **Founded:** 1996

## About

Sky News Australia has one job after dark: supply commentary that the rest of the Australian media ecosystem does not. The paradox is that what calls itself news is, in prime time, an opinion lineup featuring Andrew Bolt, Rita Panahi, and Paul Murray, with a YouTube reach that often exceeds the on-air audience. Daytime news continues; the shape of the brand is set in the evening.

## Profile

- **Ownership:** News Corp Australia (subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp)
- **Funding:** Subscription cable carriage, digital advertising and YouTube revenue, sponsorships
- **Focus areas:** Australian federal politics, immigration and border policy, climate and energy, identity and culture-war debates, prime-time opinion programming


## What the position means

TOLD classifies what an outlet publishes over time, based on ownership, funding
and focus. It describes a pattern; it is not a rating of quality and not a
ranking. Nothing in TOLD sorts, hides or promotes a source by its position.
State-aligned and partisan outlets are in the catalogue on purpose, labelled.

## Assessment note

Latest assessment: 2026-05-10. Generated with TOLD Source Prompt Brief v1.2.7. TOLD summarizes framing patterns and third-party classifications; it does not assess factual accuracy, intent, or legitimacy. External classifications: 8 (5 themes).

Corrections: report@told.news

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