The chief aim of this investigation was to study the effect the media may have on the development of school economics courses. As school economics is justified largely on the basis of citizenship and our courses are drawn generally directly from the discipline of economics itself, it was decided to explore other means of developing economic curricula which in this case involved the study of one section of the media - the newspaper. One hundred and twenty pages were drawn at random from a years publications of the Age newspaper. The content of these pages was then analysed in term of column space devoted to economics subject matter to check how significant is the amount of economics material reported in the general pages of the newspaper. Furthermore, data were collected to derive a picture of the economics concepts involved. Once these data were collected it was reported that in percentage terms, a significant amount of column space was devoted to economics issues. Furthermore, there was a large range of economic concepts and terms presented in the sample; these concepts and terms were grouped together to form the basis of an outline for a school course.