LABOR IS QUIETLY PAYING JOURNALISTS WAGES AT 184 NEWSROOMS IN AUSTRALIA

🟠 #BREAKING: LABOR IS QUIETLY PAYING JOURNALIST WAGES AT 184 NEWSROOMS 🟠

Anika Wells' $67.6 million Journalism Assistance Fund is part paying the wages of more than 2,000 journalists, and more than half the money went to just four ownership groups.

Nine took $16.1 million.… pic.twitter.com/a9FgfWw0FQ

— One News Australia (@OneNewsAu) July 19, 2026

🟠 #BREAKING: LABOR IS QUIETLY PAYING JOURNALIST WAGES AT 184 NEWSROOMS 🟠

Anika Wells’ $67.6 million Journalism Assistance Fund is part paying the wages of more than 2,000 journalists, and more than half the money went to just four ownership groups.

Nine took $16.1 million. Seven’s side of the new Southern Cross group took $11.3 million. Crikey, The Conversation, The Saturday Paper and Mamamia are all there.

News Corp, Sky News and The Guardian were barred from even applying. Opinion writing doesn’t count as news under the government’s own rules. And no funded newsroom ever has to tell its readers.

The fund ran dry in 28 days. One recipient was two days old. Another collapsed five weeks later.

We’ve published the full table: all 184 recipients, every company, every owner, every dollar and their share of the fund:

https://onenewsaustralia.com/journalism-assistance-fund