Guardian Australia launched in a spirit of hope and determination. Ten years later we’re going from strength to strength

Guardian Australia’s Sydney newsroom: ‘We have made a difference,’ Lenore Taylor writes. ‘We have set our own tone; unashamedly progressive but never partisan.’ Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian

I don’t need the archives to remember how it felt in May 2013 as we prepared to launch Guardian Australia; the excitement and exhaustion, and also the underlying fluttering of fear.

Our hope and determination was tinged with anxiety because we were embarking on an experiment most experts thought impossible; building a new and consequential news provider in Australia. We were backed by the global heft of the Guardian’s news platforms and cushioned by a generous five-year loan from the philanthropist Graeme Wood, but we were launching into a market that had long centred on just two commercial news brands, Fairfax Media and News Corp. And we were starting small.