There is a lot of independent new media who are doing excellent work this election campaign, looking into issues which legacy media isn’t looking at.

Alex McKinnon has done an incredible deep dive into the Minority Impact Coalition, which is running astro-turf (a polite way of saying propaganda) campaigns in inner-city electorates which you can find on his newsletter.

Anthony Klan at The Klaxton has been looking into some of Advance’s funding, including that the Liberals donate more to the group than the nation spends on Welcome to Country funding

Declassified Australia has been examining exactly what has been happening with some of Australia’s defence spending and also the weapon ‘parts’ supply chain that ends up in weapons for Israel

and Cam Wilson has been looking at some of the tech companies and how tech has been playing a role in the campaign at The Sizzle

That’s just a few – but there is a great emerging trend of journalists doing incredible work outside of the mainstream – it’s what we have been seeing in the US and Europe (Dropsite News is an amazing outlet for anyone looking for US stuff) and it is really good to see good journalists start to break away and do the same thing here.