With our media dominated by the commercial Murdoch press and Fairfax media, aka tv Channel 9 Media, our ABC is to be treasured, being government funded and free of commercial and notionally free of government influence.
Both private media companies are very involved in daily newspapers too, and also country daily and weekly newspapers.
I pay a bit over $30 a month for access to my local paper, The Age. The gives me access to Sydney's equivalent local paper and other digital only interstate papers.
But some twelve years ago an electronic media disrupter arrived in Australia, The Guardian, with its English origins being the Manchester Guardian, a very old and very well respected newspaper, based in Manchester, England.
When politicians talk the talk, it will cut them down.
When commercial avarice is apparent, it will tell you.
It investigates. I pay $100 a year as a donation and it is worth every cent but generally the online paper is free to read.
The paper's chief editor for the last ten years, Katherine Viner, sent out an email to note whatever occasion and there were some links to terrific reads. I took the time to read them.
Former New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, post office.
A female Somali refugee who has made a good life for herself with English citizenship, but it wasn't easy.
This one is heartbreaking, and if you read neither of the above, read this heartbreaking one about what how arguably the best public health system in the world failed. Sorry, it won't cheer you up at all. How Martha died. There are lessons to be learnt.
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