We will be most pleased to oblige:)
I think our media is like some of yours,I've been reading the Sydney Morning Herald and other papers,and from their coverage and letters to the the editor I would never have dreamed that the Coalition would win. I hope there's a moral here for our election!
And not only did they win, they increased their majority!
Oh the SMH is considered the al-Guardian or New York Slimes Downunder. It used to be pretty centrist, but since the Halifax Group took over it took a nosedive for the worse. Rupert Murdoch's papers (which tend to be secondary ones, or pseudo-tabloids, but also the only national paper in Australia, The Australian) is pretty decent. They routinely have VDH, Mark Steyn, Jonah Goldberg's columns printing there.
In fact apart from Paddy McGuinness (who's the token conservative on the SMH) and a couple of isolated articles, there's no reason to read the SMH.