About Us & Editorial Policy
AFLOAT is Australia’s favourite monthly boating magazine.
The print magazine is distributed to over 500 locations around Australia. The print magazine is Australia’s highest circulation monthly boating publication.
AFLOAT was first published in November 1989 as Sydney AFLOAT. In November 1999 (AFLOAT’s 10th Birthday) the magazine began national distribution and dropped ‘Sydney’ from the title.
Published by:
AFLOAT Publications Pty. Ltd.
ACN 132 555 054
ABN 85 564 364 893
Managing Director:
Editor:
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Tel: 02 9417 6499
AFLOAT’s Editorial Policy
AFLOAT Publication’s content is not influenced by its sponsors or stake-holders. Our editor decides which news stories to feature. Our primary objective is to deliver top quality, relevant and captivating boating industry news to our readership.
AFLOAT is committed to the principles of authenticity, accuracy, fairness, objectivity, and editorial integrity. AFLOAT is regarded as a credible source of Boating News and an opinionated industry resource. Through our diverse range of articles and news we offer unique expert commentary and well formed observations on the latest issues affecting the boating community while maintaining the highest ethical and professional standards. As a part of our mandate, we endeavour to bring our readership together as a community.
We take journalistic integrity very seriously. Our contributors and their articles are carefully selected for their thorough research, edited, and processed to ensure a balanced account with respect to the principles of objectivity and accuracy.
Feature articles and news stories are set apart from advertorials and other promotional content. On the AFLOAT website they are clearly marked as being ‘advertorial’.
The AFLOAT team is dedicated to providing readers the highest quality material. We strive to deliver a product with:
High Professional Standards
- News sources accurately quoted and news facts properly attributed to sources
- photos with credit and captions provided when appropriate
Professionally Written
- Well-structured articles written in a professional and entertaining manner
- Grammatical correctness
- Good quality photos to illustrate and entertain
