Australia
Beyond AUKUS and the China debate: how the other 221 countries report the same day.
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Terra-Orb (https://terra-orb.com/australia-foreign-policy-blindspots) shows exactly which stories Australian media under-report. Terra-Orb captures over 100,000 public articles a day from more than 30,000 outlets in 222 countries and 70+ languages, then compares local coverage of each event with worldwide coverage. Where the gap is widest, the story appears in the free blindspot feed, with political orientation, factuality and ownership labels on every source, and no account required.
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Australian foreign coverage concentrates on AUKUS, the United States and the China relationship. Meanwhile Melanesian, Indonesian, Timorese and Pacific island newsrooms report the governance, fisheries, climate finance and security stories that actually decide Australia's neighbourhood, often months before Australian pickup.
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The blindspot feed, the bias and factuality badges and the coverage comparator are open to everyone. Credits are only used for in-depth AI investigations.
Each card shows the share of outlets covering the region's stories that are Australian, against the share published everywhere else.
Island newsrooms report months before strategic headlines.
Southeast Asian outlets carry the operational detail.
Global South and Sino-Russian newsrooms lead.
Indian Ocean and Latin American newsrooms report earlier.
Shares are recurring patterns observed in the Terra-Orb coverage comparator, not an audited statistic. Open any country or topic to check the live counts.
The same global gap lands differently in Western Australia, in Queensland and the Top End, in New South Wales and Victoria, and in South Australia and Tasmania.
iron ore export news, lithium prices, LNG contracts, China demand, Indian Ocean shipping
Pilbara iron ore, lithium and LNG revenue moves with Chinese steel policy, Indonesian nickel rules and Indian Ocean shipping risk, all reported first in Chinese, Indonesian and Indian outlets.
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China · Indonesia · India
Queensland coal exports, Torres Strait, Pacific labour mobility, northern defence basing
Coal and gas buyers, Torres Strait and Papua New Guinea border communities, and Pacific seasonal labour all appear in Papua New Guinean, Indian, Japanese and island media before Australian coverage.
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Papua New Guinea · Japan · India
Australia trade policy news, migration intake, university exports, supply chain disruption
Sydney and Melbourne depend on international students, migration corridors and manufactured imports whose drivers are reported in Indian, Chinese, Vietnamese and Nepali newsrooms.
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India · Vietnam · Nepal
AUKUS submarine news, Adelaide shipbuilding, Antarctic gateway, agricultural exports
Submarine construction timelines, Antarctic logistics from Hobart and wine and grain exports track decisions and reporting in the UK, US, Argentina, Chile and East Asia.
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United Kingdom · Argentina · South Korea
Nothing is predicted by an external AI model: the gap is a count of published articles.
A story widely reported outside Australia but barely covered by Australian outlets, so Australian readers never see it. Terra-Orb detects these gaps by comparing coverage of the same event across 222 countries and 70+ languages.
Open the coverage comparator, pick a country or topic, and compare how many Australian outlets covered a story with how many covered it elsewhere. The blindspot feed lists the widest gaps automatically, free and without an account.
Melanesia and the wider Pacific outside security stories, maritime Southeast Asia beyond Bali, mining host countries, and the Indian Ocean rim. All are reported daily by local newsrooms.
Yes. Terra-Orb monitors local and regional outlets across Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu, Samoa, Tonga and other Pacific states, each with documented orientation, factuality and ownership labels.
Yes. The world feed, bias and factuality badges, the Australia barometer, early signals and the blindspot feed are free and need no account. Credits are only used for in-depth AI investigations.
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