Public sector

Intelligence for the public sector.

Inform your operations, policies and how to navigate public sentiment with Australia's own intelligence, analysis and outreach solution across print, online, broadcast and social media.

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Owned by Australia’s largest media companies since 1983

40 yrs

Australian & media owned

5,000+

Media sources monitored

98.8%

Contact data accuracy

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Policy tracker

Media sentiment over time

Rental Affordability Act

Current positive

46%

Current negative

27%

Net sentiment

+19pp

Bill introduced to parliament

ABS rent-spike data published

Cross-party support announced

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Australian owned. Media owned. Since 1983.

A local, reliable, trusted experience.

Local.

The only Australian-owned media intelligence provider. Serviced by local team in Sydney and Melbourne.

Reliable.

Almost 40 years embedded in Australian newsrooms, with an in-house research team and support in your time zone.

Trusted.

Trusted by government organisations, from local government to state and federal departments and agencies.

Trusted by government communications teams across Australia

Intelligence for policy, operational and communication decisions.

Media monitoring, media analysis, reporting dashboards and sentiment analysis — combined across print, online, broadcast and social media.

Real-time mention tracking

Know the moment your agency, ministers or programs are named — across the whole Australian media landscape.

Issue & risk monitoring

Surface emerging issues, recurring complaints and systemic signals before they escalate.

Entity-level sentiment

World-first AI sentiment that separates how an article reads from how your organisation is portrayed.

Scheduled executive reporting

Curated daily briefings and dashboards built for executives, ministers' offices and boards.

Not simply monitoring — intelligence.

For government agencies and government business enterprises, the primary value isn't just knowing what's being said. It's using media intelligence as an input to policy, strategy, customer experience, service delivery and service improvement — not only communications.

For those that:

Deliver high-volume and/or critical public services

Develop and/or deliver impactful policy reforms

Regulate industries and individuals

Manage high-profile public issues and crises

Depend on public trust to be effective

Our service portfolio

Packaged monitoring and media-analysis reports you can commission directly — scoped to give you fast, low-friction ways to put media intelligence to work on the issues that matter to government comms teams when they need it most.

REPUTATION

RAG Reputation Status Report

A red, amber, green status view of your media and reputation position, showing at a glance where coverage is tracking well, where it needs watching, and where it requires action.

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REPUTATION

Public Discourse Scan

A broad read of what Australians are saying about your portfolio across news, online and social channels — the themes, the language, and the communities driving the conversation.

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AI as a Stakeholder

AI vs Media Narrative Benchmarking

A side-by-side comparison of how journalists and AI systems describe your organisation, policy, issue or minister revealing where the two diverge and which version your intended audience is more likely to encounter.

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issues management

Emerging Issues Alert

Early warning on issues gathering momentum before they reach mainstream coverage, so your team is briefed and prepared rather than reacting to the first phone call.

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AI as a stakeholder

AI Reputation Tracker

Ongoing monitoring of what AI systems tell the public about your agency, department, board, service or organisation, tracking accuracy, cited sources, and change over time.

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policy

Policy Sentiment Brief

How a specific announcement, reform or program is landing — the reach it achieved, the sentiment it attracted, and which stakeholders and communities responded most strongly. For existing or upcoming policies.

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service delivery

Service reputation review

A focused assessment of public perception of a particular service or program, identifying where communication is working and where service experience is driving criticism.

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spokespeople

Stakeholder and Spokesperson Performance Tracker

Measures how your spokespeople and key stakeholders are represented in coverage — visibility, message cut-through, and sentiment — to support media training and spokesperson selection.

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voter sentiment

Pre-Election Sentiment Brief

Pre-election tracking of public sentiment, trending topics and the issues shaping voter attention, providing an evidence base for pre-caretaker planning and post-election briefing.

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Get heard by those that influence opinions.

Media intelligence tells you what's being said. Medianet also gets your message out — straight into Australian newsrooms, to the right journalists, with proof of pickup.

Distribute to the newsroom

Send media releases straight into Australian newsrooms — News Corp, Nine, AAP and more — via direct CMS handshakes.

36,000+ media contacts

Reach the right journalists and outlets with in-depth, verified pitching profiles.

200+ curated media lists

A list for every story — by topic, region, outlet type and CALD media.

Pickup tracker & analytics

See who published, where, and how your release performed.

Already work with government? Partner with us.

If you advise, campaign for, poll or lobby government, Medianet's media intelligence makes your work sharper. Bring our monitoring, analysis and outreach into what you already deliver — as a partner or sub-contractor.

Partner with us

Comms & campaign agencies

Supply deep media research, analysis and distribution to the public campaigns you run for government clients — already on the Federal and NSW advertising panels.

Polling & research firms

Pair voter and sentiment research with media intelligence for a fuller, deeper picture of public opinion for the parties and clients you serve.

Lobbying & public affairs

Back advocacy with evidence-grade media monitoring and analysis — compelling proof to support the cases you make to government.

the team

A platform backed by people.

In-house Australian research, analysis and account teams — real people who know the newsrooms, reachable in your time zone.

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Research team

Keeping media data up-to-date with genuine knowledge of the Australian media landscape.

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Media analysts

Award-winning analysis under the recognised global AMEC framework

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Account managers

Your own contact point with Medianet

Editorial team

Constantly building relationships with newsrooms

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Onboarding and Support

Top rated by customers, local and in Australian hours.

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Product team

Constantly innovating

Still have questions? We've got answers.

Does Medianet cover outreach as well as monitoring?

Yes. One platform spans media monitoring, media analysis and media outreach — so you can track the issues that matter and get your message into the newsroom without juggling separate tools.

Can we start small, without a big commitment?

Yes. Packaged monitoring and media-analysis reports can be commissioned directly — a fast, low-friction way to put media intelligence to work and prove value before scaling up.

Is this only for communications teams?

No. Media intelligence is relevant to policy, strategy, customer experience, service delivery and service improvement functions — not just comms.

What media does Medianet cover?

Print, online, broadcast and social media — more than 5,000 Australian sources, monitored in one platform with entity-level sentiment and curated daily briefings.

Who owns Medianet?

Medianet is Australian and media owned — by News Corp, Nine Entertainment, Seven West Media and ACM — giving us direct, long-standing access to newsrooms.

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