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How to submit a complaint with The Age
If your complaint about The Age is really about issues with delivery, customer service, and biased reporting, use the official contact form and the complaints email first and keep the written trail together.
- Start in the right place: Use the official contact form and the complaints email for The Age so the complaint lands with a team that can actually review it.
- Anchor the facts: Include the program, article, segment, episode, air date or time, screenshots, and your complaint notes and explain what went wrong with the program, article, segment, or complaint issue.
- Name the complaint theme: Say if the issue is about issues with delivery, customer service, and biased reporting so it is routed properly.
- Ask for a concrete outcome: Spell out whether you want a correction, response, review, content action, or a clear written explanation.
- Keep it on one thread: Ask for a written reference or acknowledgement and keep all follow-up in the same complaint trail.
The first response from The Age often turns on how clearly the issue and evidence were set out when the complaint was lodged.
- Acknowledgement: You should get a case number, email, or some written sign that The Age has logged the complaint.
- Review: The business will usually look at the program, article, segment, episode, air date or time, screenshots, and your complaint notes and the part of the service tied to the complaint.
- Response: A useful answer should explain what The Age found and whether it will offer a correction, response, review, content action, or a clear written explanation.
- Push-back if needed: If the reply is vague or misses the key point, answer on the same thread and restate the unresolved issue in plain language.
Common complaints against The Age
The complaint themes most likely to matter for The Age are below. Use the one that best matches your issue.
- Issues with delivery: A recurring friction point that is worth naming clearly in your complaint.
- Customer service: Slow replies, handballs between teams, or support that misses the actual problem.
- Biased reporting: Coverage that feels slanted, unfair, or missing important context.
The Age complaints submitted through Ajust
Do not let a weak The Age response turn the issue into a fresh complaint. Escalate the same chronology instead.
- Escalate internally first: Ask The Age to move the complaint to a manager, specialist complaints team, or formal review path.
- Keep the same chronology: Do not restart from scratch. Re-send the timeline, evidence, and the outcome you still want.
- Move externally when the internal process stalls: If the business still does not deal with it properly, the practical next step is usually Fair Trading or Consumer Affairs for consumer issues, and ACMA if the complaint is about broadcasting or communications standards.
If The Age does not resolve a complaint about issues with delivery, customer service, and biased reporting, there is usually an external path beyond the business.
- Main external path: Fair Trading or Consumer Affairs for consumer issues, and ACMA if the complaint is about broadcasting or communications standards
- Why this route matters: The right route depends on whether the issue is about billing, subscriptions, or regulated content standards.
- Before you escalate: Keep your full The Age complaint trail together, including receipts, screenshots, emails, and any written responses.
If you want the complaint on record with The Age, these are the official contact points worth using first.
- Official contact: https://www.theage.com.au/contact-us
- Email: support@financialreview.zendesk.com
The Age Complaints FAQs
What is the fastest way to complain to The Age?
Use the official contact form if it fits the issue. A complaint with dates, evidence, and a clear remedy usually moves faster than a broad service rant.
What should I include in a complaint to The Age?
Attach the proof that best matches the issue and ask for a correction, response, review, content action, or a clear written explanation. Clear evidence makes it harder for the complaint to be brushed aside.
What complaint issues come up most often for The Age?
The recurring themes are usually issues with delivery, customer service, and biased reporting. Naming the exact complaint theme early gives the issue a better chance of landing with the right team.
What can I do if The Age still does not fix the problem?
Do not restart the complaint from scratch. Keep the same evidence trail together and escalate with the same chronology attached.
You’ve done your part, now it’s time to hold The Age accountable.
Take the final step and submit a complaint that gets seen and responded to.