In 2017 the Audited Media Association of Australia announced that circulation figures were to be published every six months.
Based in one of the country's two major cities, Melbourne, it is the result of the amalgamation of the original Sun and Herald newspapers.
For the quarterly reporting period of the ABC data, from March to June 2016, Fairfax made the decision to remove its digital circulation numbers because it believes the figures, released by the Audited Media Association of Australia (AMAA), wrongfully suggest subscriptions at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age are falling.
In October 2017, The Australian owned by News Corp, claimed to be the first newspaper in Australia achieving over 100,000 paying online subscribers.
[4](registration required) (Dec. 2016) This is a list of the top 25 newspapers in the Australia by Monday–Friday or Monday–Saturday circulation for the three-month period ending 30 June 2010.