I find the ABC is still pretty good and is where I get most of my political analysis and current affairs (4 Corners, Foreign Correspondent, Insiders and so on). Their print side is reporting not in-depth journalism but decent enough for that. The opinion section occasionally has an interesting read.

For print media there are a few online alternatives springing up.

http://www.theglobalmail.org/
http://newmatilda.com/
http://www.thepunch.com.au/

The first is run from a philanthropic donation and is probably the most promising. The other two are more straight commentary. I think The Punch is Murdoch owned but not as obviously biased as The Australian in its headline selection, story focus etc.

I also know of one overseas crowd-funded journalism effort:

http://www.propublica.org/

But if you are looking for an actual hard copy newspaper containing good journalism you are out of luck :(

On 20 June 2012 12:10, Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:

Peter Ross wrote:
> Before I came here, I was used to choose between various German
> newspapers who appeared to be run independently, and considered it
> as being at the heart of a working democracy.

The obvious solution would be to keep reading them.
In the last six months I've certainly read more articles from the
Guardian than I have from the Age or SMH...

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