Herald Sun
The Herald-Sun (occasionally jokingly referred to as "The Hun") is a newspaper in Melbourne, Australia that is published by The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.
The Herald-Sun was formed in 1990 from a merger of the morning tabloid paper The Sun News-Pictorial with its afternoon broadsheet sister paper The Herald.
The Herald was founded on January 3, 1840 by George Cavanaugh as The Port Phillip Herald and became The Herald in 1855 and was published for the last time on October 5, 1990.
The Sun News-Pictorial was founded in 1922 and bought by the HWT in 1925.
Lacking the nude "page 3 girls" of Murdoch's British tabloids, it does possess some of the populist right-wing sensibility (though to a much lesser degree). Its ferocious anti-Labor editorial tone (at the time) is said to have contributed significantly to the downfall of the Labor government of Joan Kirner in 1992, though the extent to which that is true is impossible to estimate.
Its major competitor is the social-democratic-leaning broadsheet The Age, which it outsells substantially (though the demographics of The Age are considerably more appealing to advertisers).
The Herald and Weekly Times building located in Flinders Street, Melbourne is heritage listed which means the historic exterior facade - the neon HERALD SUN sign and the former radio transmission towers on the roof for radio station 3DB, that was also housed in the building for many years, cannot be removed although the interior of the building was gutted after the HWT moved out in 1995 after seventy-two years in the building.