The Herald Sun is a morning tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia. It is published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Limited, itself a subsidiary of News Corporation. It is available for purchase throughout Melbourne, Regional Victoria, Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and Southern New South Wales. The Herald Sun primarily serves Victoria and shares many articles with other News Corporation paid daily newspapers, especially those from Australia.

The Herald Sun is the highest-circulating daily newspaper in Australia, with a weekday circulation of 515,000 and readership of 1,500,000.^[1]

Origins[link]

The Herald Sun newspaper was formed in 1990 from a merger of the morning tabloid paper The Sun News-Pictorial with its afternoon broadsheet sister paper The Herald. It was first published on 8 October 1990 as the Herald-Sun. The hyphen in its title was later dropped; the last hyphenated masthead appeared on 1 May 1993. The paper had in March 2009 a circulation of 530,000 from Monday to Friday.^[2]

History[link]

The Herald[link]

The old Herald and Weekly Times building in Flinders Street.

The Herald was founded on 3 January 1840 by George Cavanaugh as The Port Phillip Herald. In 1855, it became The Melbourne Herald for all of one week before settling on The Herald. From 1869, it was an evening newspaper. Colonel William Thomas Reay was sometime literary editor and later associate editor, before becoming managing editor in 1904.

The Sun News-Pictorial[link]

The Sun News-Pictorial was founded on 11 September 1922, and bought by The Herald and Weekly Times in 1925.

The merger[link]

In its heyday, The Herald had a circulation of almost 600,000, but by the time of its 150th anniversary in 1990, with the impact of evening television news and a higher proportion of people using cars to get home from work, The Herald's circulation had fallen below 200,000. This was much less than that of the morning Sun.

As a result, The Herald and Weekly Times decided to merge the two, and so after one hundred and fifty years, ten months and two days of publication, The Herald was published for the last time as a separate newspaper on 5 October 1990. The next day, The Sun News-Pictorial published its last edition. Shortly before this, the Sunday editions of the two newspapers had been merged. The resulting newspaper had both the size and style of The Sun News-Pictorial.

After a progressive decline in circulation the afternoon edition was cancelled, the last edition being published on 21 December 2001.^[3] The News Limited produced mX has filled part of that gap, being freely distributed of an afternoon from stands throughout the Melbourne CBD, though generally not available outside that area.

Recent editors include Peter Blunden, Simon Pristel, Phil Gardner and Bruce Guthrie.^[4]

Collectible items[link]

Over the years, the Herald Sun has had a range of magazines, pins and memorabilia (usually with an outside partner) that could be obtained by either getting it out of the newspaper, or using a token from the newspaper to collect or purchase the item. Items that have been a part of this scheme include:

• The 2000 Olympic Torch Relay Pin (and album), collection includes 15 place pins and one State Pin of Victoria (2000)
• Australian Football League trading cards – every year, near the start of the AFL season (2004–present)
• The Simpsons pins (2006)
• Socceroos medallions (2006)
• Celebrate 50 Years of TV (2006) – in conjunction with Nine Network
• The Ashes series pins (2006)
• Family Encyclopedia CD-ROM Collection (2006) – in conjunction with publishing company Dorling Kindersley
• The Greatest (2007) – a 14-part magazine series
• Amazing Pictures (2007) - a 4-part magazine series
• Discovery Atlas DVD Collection (2009)
• Harry Potter The Ultimate Collection (2011)

Controversies[link]

Shortly before the 2004 election, the Herald Sun published an article entitled "Greens back illegal drugs" (Herald Sun, 31/8/2004) written by Gerard McManus which made a number of claims about the Australian Greens based on their harm minimisation and decriminalisation policies posted on their website at the time. The Greens complained to the Australian Press Council. The text of their adjudication reads:

In the context of an approaching election, the potential damage was considerable. The actual electoral impact cannot be known but readers were seriously misled. [...] The claims made in the original article were seriously inaccurate and breached the Council's guiding principles of checking the accuracy of what is reported, taking prompt measures to counter the effects of harmfully inaccurate reporting, ensuring that the facts are not distorted, and being fair and balanced in reports on matters of public concern.^[5]

Notable journalists and columnists[link]

• Jon Anderson
• Andrew Bolt
• Robert Fidgeon^[6]
• Terry McCrann
• Neil Mitchell
• Mike Sheahan
• Jill Singer
• Mark Knight (cartoonist)
• Gary Ablett Jr.
• Jimmy Bartel
• Jason Akermanis
• Eddie McGuire
• Gerard McManus
• Osmar White
• James Campbell

Counterparts[link]

The Sunday edition is called the Sunday Herald Sun. Its counterparts in Sydney are The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph. In Brisbane, it is linked with The Courier-Mail and The Sunday Mail. In Adelaide, The Advertiser and Sunday Mail. In Perth, The Sunday Times. In Hobart, The Mercury and The Sunday Tasmanian. In Darwin, The Northern Territory News and Sunday Territorian.

See also[link]

• List of newspapers in Australia

References[link]

External links[link]

• Herald Sun
• The Port Phillip Herald and The Herald archive, 1840-1902
• Media Watch segment aired 1 May 2006, ABC. "Age vs. Hun: Off-field Biff". Video accessed online 6 June 2006.

Shane Barry Crawford (born 9 September 1974) is a former Australian rules footballer, having played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League. He is currently an Australian television personality who appears regularly on the AFL Footy Show.

AFL career[link]

Crawford spent his childhood in Finley, New South Wales and played his junior football with the Finley Football Club.^[1] He attended boarding school at Assumption College in Kilmore, Victoria and was selected by Hawthorn with the 13th pick in the 1991 AFL Draft. He made his debut in 1993, writer Matt Burgan noting he "has since become an all-time club great and remains the only link from Hawthorn's golden era through to today."^[2]

Crawford played 305 career AFL games. He is also a four-time All-Australian player and played in three International Rules series' for Australia. He became Captain of Hawthorn in 1999 and that season also won the AFL's top individual honours, the Brownlow Medal and the Leigh Matthews Trophy. He has won four Hawthorn Best & Fairest Awards (1998, 1999, 2002, 2003) and came second in the Brownlow in 2003, losing to the winner by one vote. He was also a member of Hawthorn's 2008 Premiership side.

Crawford stepped down from the Hawthorn Captaincy after the 2004 season, in which he broke his arm and the Hawks finished second last on the AFL ladder. He regained some form in the 2005 season and was again one of the league's leading possession winners.

He played his 300th game for Hawthorn against Brisbane in Round 19 in 2008 in Launceston when, after a slow start, Hawthorn eventually defeated the Lions by 69 points.

On 27 September 2008, Crawford won his first Premiership in his 305th AFL match, aged 34. He played more AFL games before receiving his first Premiership Medal than any other player.

Crawford was offered another year with the Hawks,^[3] but he announced his retirement, wanting to go out on a high note. He ended his career after Hawthorn won the 2008 Grand Final, and is now remembered as one of the greatest midfielders in the modern era of AFL football.^[4]

Media career[link]

Crawford is currently a television presenter on Channel Nine, being part of three current shows. He is a co-host of World's Funniest Videos.^{[citation needed]} The show is part of Channel Nine's 'Stimulus Package' which also includes another light entertainment show, Commercial Breakdown which contains a segment called My Beef with Shane Crawford, a segment where Crawford discusses his opinion on an issue.^{[citation needed]} Crawford is now a permanent panel member of The Footy Show and is a presenter on Postcards, a holiday and destination program which airs on Saturday afternoons.^{[citation needed]} He was also a contestant on the first season of Channel 9's series The Celebrity Apprentice, where celebrities compete for charities of their choosing. Shane raised $49,311 for his charity the Breast Cancer Network Australia. He finished third overall behind dance guru Jason Coleman and comedian Julia Morris.

World records[link]

In 2009 Crawford set five Guinness world records during broadcasts of The Footy Show.

• Having 157 live Golden Orb spiders on his body inside a large tank for 30 seconds.^[5]
• Kissing 96 people on the face in a minute.^[6]
• Putting on 180 pairs of underwear, surpassing the former world record of 150.^[7]
• Crawford and previous Stawell Gift winner Adrian Mott broke the world record for the 100m sprint while both inside a single pantomime horse costume.^[8]
• Cracked 90 eggs with his head in a minute.^[7]

Personal life[link]

Crawford has a longtime girlfriend, Olivia Anderson and they have 4 sons – Charlie (born 2006), Benjamin (born 2008) and twins Jack and Harry (born 2011).

Crawford's interests outside football are diverse, including his passion for horse racing.^[9] In 2011 Crawford launched his children's wear range Kiniki onto the market.^[10]

Breast Cancer Run[link]

On 16 September 2010, Crawford completed a 780 km run from Rundle Mall in Adelaide to the Channel 9 studio in Melbourne to raise awareness for breast cancer. He took a total of 11 days to complete the run and as a welcome into Melbourne, ran the final leg into the Channel 9 Footy Show's studio where the panel and crowd awaited his arrival. Hundreds of 'pink ladies' who were affected in some way by breast cancer showed their appreciation and support by making way for Crawford as he ran into the studio. Crawford appeared humbled and initially struggled to come to terms with what he had achieved and the stories that he had heard along the journey from breast cancer sufferers and family/friends of those with breast cancer.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Shane Crawford's profile on the Official AFL Website of the Hawthorn Football Club
• Shane Crawford's statistics from AFL Tables
• Google Video featuring Shane Crawford punching Sam Newman on the Footy Show