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Mitchell has said that the editorial and op-ed pages of the newspaper are centre-right, " comfortable with a mainstream Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd, just as it was quite comfortable with John Howard.

" According to other commentators, however, the newspaper " is generally conservative in tone and heavily oriented toward business ; it has a range of columnists of varying political persuasions but mostly to the right.

" Its former editor Paul Kelly has stated that " The Australian has established itself in the marketplace as a newspaper that strongly supports economic libertarianism ".