NewsTalk is an ongoing collection of public user commentary on Australian news stories, consisting of:

• user comments posted directly on Australian news websites (site comments), and
• Reddit comments linking to stories on Australian news websites.

The collection began in November 2022 and has, as of March 2024, accumulated over 2 million comments, half as site comments and half as Reddit comments. Eighteen (18) Australian news websites and mastheads are being monitored, including:

• ABC News
• Australian Community Media
• Crikey
• Echo Media
• Independent Australia
• Kotaku AU
• MSN News
• MamaMia
• News.com.au
• Nine Media
• Perth Now
• SBS News
• Sky News Australia
• The Conversation
• The Guardian
• The New Daily
• The Saturday Paper
• iTnews

NewsTalk is a database of reader commentary on news stories from major Australian news websites.  Content of news stories is unavailable through NewsTalk, only the comments left on or linking to those stories. 

The comments are accessible to researchers with prior ethics approval, under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (CC-BY-NC) license.  Source code for the database and web app used to retrieve comments is proprietary and not covered under the license. 

iOwnership of the comment texts is retained by the original authors.