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The Klaxon is an independent Australian news website, run by investigative journalist Anthony Klan. It specialises in exposing corruption and misconduct by businesses and governments. [1]

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The Klaxon

The Klaxon was registered in May 2019 in the state of New South Wales [2] as an independent news outlet. It has no deals with Google, Meta, or Australian-based news businesses. Its coverage is national [3] and international. Its articles have been cited in Australian Government reports; [4] reproduced in full by other independent news websites, such as Crikey, [5] and Michael West Media; [6] and reported in foreign media. Examples of the latter include:

The Klaxon articles are syndicated by the Bywire in the UK. [14] [15]

Anthony Klan

Anthony Klan was formerly an investigative and business journalist at The Australian for 15 years, but he quit in 2019 [16] [17] after the paper had refused to publish two of his investigations: one into the superannuation system, and another was about interference by the Chinese Communist Party in Australia, which implicated former prime minister Scott Morrison and current leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, Peter Dutton. He believes that their publication would have seen the Liberals lose the 2019 election. [14] He later opined that he had concluded that News Corp was "incredibly in the pocket of the lobbyists of the minerals, the mining, the gas and of the big banks". [16] He is particularly concerned about Australia's slide into corruption, citing Transparency International's report that Hungary and Australia tie for last place in falling into corruption between 2012 and 2022. [14]

In 2021 Klan participated in an enquiry into media diversity by the Senate Environment and Communications References Committee, which published its report on 9 December 2021. [18] [19]

In November 2021 Klan nominated for the position of national president of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance. [20] He has also written for Crikey [21] and Financial Times . [22]

Awards and nominations

Klan has won or been nominated for a number of journalism awards.

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  6. ↑ Klan, Anthony (25 November 2020). "Westpac and its super arm BT gouge $8 billion from unsuspecting public". Michael West Media . Retrieved 20 September 2023.
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