Counting newspapers
| Daily Australian national papers | |
| right-wing: | 1 (Murdoch's The Australian) |
| non-right-wing: | 0 |
| Daily Western Australian state papers | |
| right-wing: | 1 (The West Australian) |
| non-right-wing: | 0 |
| Weekend Western Australian state papers | |
| right-wing: | 2 (The West & Murdoch's The Sunday Times) |
| non-right-wing: | 0 |
Given that Western Australia does not have a right-wing government, one suspects that there is an audience for papers that offer that certain something different in their political outlook.