Please name one web based, primarily Australian news service,
including International news, from independent correspondents,
journalists, analysts, commentators (independent from “Big Boys”)

Selection should be based on independent integrity, quality and range
of information.

Subscription ok in return for viewing promotional material. (My
philosophy is that any business independent from the almighty dollar
altogether is not living in my world)

Ahem, Google has a news service and it is certainly a web based
company.

http://news.google.com/news/en/au/main.html

Google launches regional news service

Added on: 30th May 2003
Google announced on Monday, May 12, that as part of a move to upgrade
its Internet news aggregation services, it launched five new
country-specific versions of Google News. The Mountain View, Calif.
based search engine company unveiled five new country-specific global
news service sites that are based on its main Google News offering.
These local versions of Google News have been launched in Australia,
New Zealand, UK, India and Canada. This will allow Google to serve
more of a global audience.

All of the following are "Big Boys". in Australia.

ninemsn is Australia's number-one website destination
Through ninemsn's joint-venture parent companies, ninemsn delivers
well-known and respected content from the stable of Nine Network
television programs and Australian Consolidated Press (ACP) magazines

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/Default.asp

Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/

Canaberra TImes
http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/home.asp

http://news.com.au/

Thank you for visiting NEWS.com.au, Australia's No.1 news and
information site. and Agence France-Presse.
Which newspapers form your network?
News Limited publishes more than 100 newspapers in Australia,
including:
The Australian, Australia's national daily The Daily Telegraph and The
Sunday Telegraph in New South Wales The Herald Sun, Sunday Herald Sun,
MX and The Weekly Time in Victoria The Courier-Mail, The Sunday Mail,
The Gold Coast Bulletin, The Townsville Bulletin and The Cairns Post
in Queensland The Advertiser and Sunday Mail in South Australia The
Mercury and The Sunday Tasmanian in Tasmania The Sunday Times in
Western Australia The NT News and Centralian Advocate in the Northern
Territory; and Cumberland, Leader, Quest and Messenger community
newspapers.

The best we have down this way are the IndyMedia sites, part of a
global collective.

This is the Melbourne one:
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/

The range of topics is very narrow.

Thanks for your comments guys. 

Interested to hear how I can search newswervices with the Google link,
and I have added the Melbourne indymedia site to my favourites.