List of newspapers in Australia
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Daily newspapers

  • The Australian
    The Australian
    The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964. The editor in chief is Chris Mitchell, the editor is Clive Mathieson and the 'editor-at-large' is Paul Kelly....

     (broadsheet).
  • The Australian Financial Review
    The Australian Financial Review
    The Australian Financial Review is a leading business and finance newspaper in Australia.Fairfax Media publishes it in a compact format six days a week, Monday to Saturday....


Weekly and monthly newspapers

  • Lloyd's List DCN
    Lloyd's List DCN
    Lloyd's List DCN is a weekly Australian shipping, trade and transport focused newspaper, published by Informa Australia in tabloid format...

  • The Australian Senior
  • Green Left Weekly
    Green Left Weekly
    Green Left Weekly is an Australian radical left-wing newspaper, written by progressive activists to "present the views excluded by the big business media". It was published by the Democratic Socialist Perspective from its inception in 1990 until January 2010, when the DSP merged into the Socialist...

  • Business Review Weekly
    Business Review Weekly
    BRW is an Australian weekly business magazine published by the Fairfax Media group. It regularly compiles lists which rank corporations and individuals according to various criteria, similar to Fortune magazine in the United States.BRW provides news and commentary on the economy, business and...

  • The Monthly
    The Monthly
    The Monthly is an Australian national magazine of politics, society and the arts, which is published eleven times per year on a monthly basis except the December/January issue. Founded in 2005, it is published by Melbourne property developer Morry Schwartz...


Sydney newspapers

  • The Sydney Morning Herald
    The Sydney Morning Herald
    The Sydney Morning Herald is a daily broadsheet newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, the SMH is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia. The newspaper is published six days a week. The newspaper's Sunday counterpart, The...

     (broadsheet) and The Sun-Herald
    The Sun-Herald
    The Sun-Herald is an Australian tabloid newspaper published on Sundays in Sydney by Fairfax Media. It is the Sunday counterpart of The Sydney Morning Herald. In the 6 months to September 2005, The Sun-Herald had a circulation of 515,000...

     (Sunday)
  • The Daily Telegraph
    The Daily Telegraph (Australia)
    The Daily Telegraph is an Australian tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, by Nationwide News, part of News Corporation.The Tele, as it is also known, was founded in 1879. From 1936 to 1972, it was owned by Frank Packer's Australian Consolidated Press. That year it was sold to...

     (tabloid)
  • mX
    MX (newspaper)
    mX is an Australian free afternoon daily newspaper in the cities of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, owned and produced by News Limited. Targeted at commuters, its main channels of distribution are inner-city railway stations, tram and bus stops, and major CBD intersections.-Beginnings:The first mX...

     (free afternoon commuter paper)

Defunct Sydney newspapers

  • The Australasian Worker
  • The Daily Mirror
    The Daily Mirror (Australia)
    The Daily Mirror was an afternoon paper established by Ezra Norton in Sydney, Australia in 1941, gaining a licence from the Minister for Trade and Customs, Eric Harrison, despite wartime paper rationing. In October 1958, Norton and his partners sold his newspapers to the Fairfax group, which...

  • The Evening News
  • The Illustrated Sydney News (around in 1855)
  • The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator
    The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator
    The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator was a Sydney newspaper published between December 1848 and 1856.The People's Advocate was established by Edward John Hawksley, an English Catholic Radical, who wrote the majority of the paper's content, and by the Sydney printer Francis...

  • The Sydney Bulletin
    The Bulletin
    The Bulletin was an Australian weekly magazine that was published in Sydney from 1880 until January 2008. It was influential in Australian culture and politics from about 1890 until World War I, the period when it was identified with the "Bulletin school" of Australian literature. Its influence...

  • The Sydney Gazette
    Sydney Gazette
    The Sydney Gazette was the first newspaper in Australia. Governor King authorised the publication of what was initially called 'The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser in 1803. Subsequently the first edition was published 5 March...

     (Sydney's first newspaper)
  • The Sun (Australia)
    The Sun (Australia)
    The Sun was an afternoon tabloid newspaper, first published in 1910, by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia as the afternoon companion to the The Sydney Morning Herald.It was last published in March, 1988...

     (last published March 1988)
  • Labor Daily
    Labor daily
    The Labor Daily was a Sydney-based journal/newspaper of the early to mid 20th century. An organ of the Australian Labor Party, it was published in Sydney by Stanley Roy Wasson after the ailing Daily Mail was absorbed by Labor Papers Ltd, who began publication under that name on 6 January 1922 with...

  • Empire
    Empire (newspaper)
    The Empire was a newspaper published in Sydney, Australia. It was published from 28 December 1850 to 14 February 1875, except for the period from 28 August 1858 to 23 May 1859, when publication was suspended....

     (published 1850 - 1875)

Sydney community newspapers

  • Auburn Pictorial Review
  • Bankstown Canterbury Torch
  • Blacktown Advocate
  • Blacktown City Sun
  • Camden Advertiser
  • Campbelltown-Macarthur Advertiser
  • Canterbury-Bankstown Express
  • Fairfield Advance
  • Fairfield Champion
  • The Glebe
  • The Hawkesbury Gazette
  • Hawkesbury Independent
  • Hills News
  • Hills Shire Times
  • Hornsby & Upper North Shore Advocate
  • Inner West Courier
  • Inner-West Weekly (Since also renamed to Inner West Courier, which is now twice weekly)
  • Lake Macquarie News
  • Liverpool Champion
  • Liverpool Leader
  • Macarthur Chronicle (Campbelltown, Camden, Wollondilly)
  • Manly Daily
    Manly Daily
    The Manly Daily is an Australian local newspaper, covering the local government areas of Manly, Pittwater and Warringah.The paper is one of News Limited's community newspapers in New South Wales...

  • Mosman Daily
  • Mount Druitt Standard
  • North Shore Times
    North Shore Times
    The North Shore Times is an Australian local newspaper, serving the local government areas of Willoughby, Ku-ring-gai, Lane Cove and part of North Sydney....

  • North Side Courier
  • Northern District Times
  • Northern News
  • Parramatta Advertiser
    Parramatta Advertiser
    The Parramatta Advertiser is a weekly regional newspaper which serves the communities of Parramatta, Auburn and Holroyd local government areas. It currently has a circulation of 82,737 and covers local news, sport, council decisions, and community events....

  • Parramatta Sun
  • Penrith Press
  • Penrith Star
  • Rouse Hill Times
  • South-West Rural Advertiser
  • Southern Courier
  • St George & Sutherland Shire Leader
  • St Marys Star
  • Sydney Central Courier
    Sydney Central Courier
    The Sydney Central is a weekly newspaper distributed in the inner city of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and parts of the Inner West. It covers inner city issues, arts, and lifestyle...

  • Sydney Star Observer
    Sydney Star Observer
    The Sydney Star Observer is a free weekly tabloid and online newspaper that caters to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The paper is owned and published by Gay & Lesbian Community Publishing Limited, a community-owned and oriented business...

  • Sydney Observer Magazine
    Sydney Observer Magazine
    The Sydney Observer Magazine, previously known as the Ku-ring-gai Observer, is North Shore's premium monthly magazine. It is a free publication and is chiefly distributed in the municipality of Ku-ring-gai in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

  • The Weekly Times
  • Village Voice (Australia)|The Village Voice
  • Wentworth Courier
  • Western Weekender
  • Wollondilly Advertiser
  • "New York Times"

Regional newspapers

  • The Armidale Express
  • The Area News (Griffith
    Griffith, New South Wales
    Griffith is a city in south-western New South Wales, Australia. It is also the seat of the City of Griffith local government area. Like the Australian capital, Canberra and the nearby town of Leeton, Griffith was designed by Walter Burley Griffin. Griffith was named after Sir Arthur Griffith the...

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  • The Barrier Daily Truth
    Barrier Daily Truth
    The Barrier Daily Truth is the local newspaper for the remote mining town of Broken Hill, New South Wales.The Barrier Daily Truth covers a range of stories that affect local residents, including industrial news relating to the mines and stories submitted by readers such as local sport stories...

     (Broken Hill
    Broken Hill, New South Wales
    -Geology:Broken Hill's massive orebody, which formed about 1,800 million years ago, has proved to be among the world's largest silver-lead-zinc mineral deposits. The orebody is shaped like a boomerang plunging into the earth at its ends and outcropping in the centre. The protruding tip of the...

    )
  • The Barrier Miner (Broken Hill
    Broken Hill, New South Wales
    -Geology:Broken Hill's massive orebody, which formed about 1,800 million years ago, has proved to be among the world's largest silver-lead-zinc mineral deposits. The orebody is shaped like a boomerang plunging into the earth at its ends and outcropping in the centre. The protruding tip of the...

    )
  • Blue Mountains Gazette
  • The Regional Epar
  • The Border Mail
    The Border Mail
    The Border Mail is a daily newspaper published in Albury-Wodonga, Australia, serving the twin cities and the surrounding region.The first edition was printed on 24 October 1903 by editor Hamilton Mott and his brother Decimus...

     (Albury-Wodonga
    Albury-Wodonga
    Albury-Wodonga is the broad settlement incorporating the twin Australian cities of Albury and Wodonga, which are separated geographically by the Murray River and politically by a state border: Albury on the north of the river is part of New South Wales while Wodonga on the south bank is in...

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  • The Brewarrina News
  • Bega District News
  • The Bungendore Mirror
  • The Byron Shire Echo' (North Coast
    Byron Bay, New South Wales
    Byron Bay is a beachside town located in the far-northeastern corner of the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located north of Sydney and south of Brisbane. Cape Byron, a headland adjacent to the town, is the easternmost point of mainland Australia. At the 2006 Census, the town had a...

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  • The Central Coast Express Advocate (Central Coast)
  • Central West Photo News (Orange)
  • The Cobar Age
  • The Coffs Coast Advocate
  • The Central Western Daily
    Central Western Daily
    The Central Western Daily newspaper was founded in 1945 in Orange, New South Wales. It is a paid daily newspaper sold six mornings per week, from Monday to Saturday and is of strong repute in the local community. The focus of the Central Western Daily is community news, issues, stories about...

     (Orange
    Orange, New South Wales
    Orange is a city in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. It is west of the state capital, Sydney, at an altitude of . Orange has an estimated population of 39,329 and the city is a major provincial centre....

    )
  • The Daily Advertiser (Wagga Wagga
    Wagga Wagga, New South Wales
    Wagga Wagga is a city in New South Wales, Australia. Straddling the Murrumbidgee River, and with an urban population of 46,735 people, Wagga Wagga is the state's largest inland city, as well as an important agricultural, military, and transport hub of Australia...

    )
  • The Daily Advocate (Bathurst
    Bathurst, New South Wales
    -CBD and suburbs:Bathurst's CBD is located on William, George, Howick, Russell, and Durham Streets. The CBD is approximately 25 hectares and surrounds two city blocks. Within this block layout is banking, government services, shopping centres, retail shops, a park* and monuments...

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  • The Daily Examiner (Grafton
    Grafton, New South Wales
    The city of Grafton is the commercial hub of the Clarence River Valley. Established in 1851, Grafton features many historic buildings and tree-lined streets. Located approximately 630 kilometres north of Sydney and 340 km south of Brisbane, Grafton and the Clarence Valley can be reached...

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  • Daily Liberal
    Daily Liberal
    The Daily Liberal is a daily newspaper produced in the city of Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia. The news stories published relate particularly to the city of Dubbo and the surrounding district. The newspaper was first printed in 1875 and has been covering important local issues in the community...

     (Dubbo)
  • The Dubbo Photo News
  • The Gundagai Independent
  • The Guyra Argus
  • The Helensburgh and district news
  • Illawarra Mercury
    Illawarra Mercury
    The Illawarra Mercury is the only daily newspaper in Wollongong, the third largest city in the State of New South Wales, Australia. It has been published since 1855, making it one of Australia's oldest newspapers...

     (Wollongong)
  • The Irrigator (Leeton
    Leeton, New South Wales
    Leeton is a town in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. Leeton is situated approximately 550 km west of Sydney and 450 km north of Melbourne in the productive Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area. Leeton is administered by Leeton Shire Council...

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  • The Junee Southern Cross
  • The Macleay Argus (Kempsey
    Kempsey, New South Wales
    Kempsey is a town in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia and is the council seat for Kempsey Shire. It is located 15 kilometres inland from the coast of the Pacific Ocean where the Pacific Highway and the North Coast railway line cross the Macleay River...

    )
  • The Maitland Mercury
    Maitland Mercury
    The Maitland Mercury is Australia's oldest regional newspaper. It was originally a weekly newspaper, with the first issue published on 7 January 1843. The Mercury is still in circulation serving the city of Maitland and the surrounding Lower Hunter Valley.Even when it was first published the...

     (Maitland
    Maitland, New South Wales
    Maitland is a city in the Lower Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia and the seat of Maitland City Council, situated on the Hunter River approximately by road north of Sydney and north-west of Newcastle...

    )
  • The Manning Times (Taree
    Taree, New South Wales
    Taree is a city on the Mid North Coast, New South Wales, Australia. Taree and nearby Cundletown were settled in 1831 by William Wynter. Since then Taree has grown to a population of around 20,000 people and is the centre of a significant agricultural district. It is 16 km from the sea coast,...

    )
  • Merimbula News Weekly (Merimbula
    Merimbula, New South Wales
    Merimbula is a coastal town on the Far South Coast or Sapphire Coast of New South Wales, Australia. At the 2006 census, the population within a 10km radius of the Merimbula Post Office was over 8,775, Merimbula has a town population of 3,851 people...

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  • The Mudgee Guardian and The Weekly (Mudgee)
  • The Northern Daily Leader (Tamworth
    Tamworth, New South Wales
    Tamworth is a city in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia. Straddling the Peel River, Tamworth, which contains an estimated population of 47,595 people, is the major regional centre for southern New England and in the local government area of Tamworth Regional Council. The city...

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  • The Northern Star (Lismore
    Lismore, New South Wales
    Lismore is a subtropical town in northeastern New South Wales, Australia. Lismore is the main population centre in the City of Lismore local government area. Lismore is a regional centre in the Northern Rivers region of the State.-History:...

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  • The Newcastle Herald
    The Newcastle Herald
    The Newcastle Herald is a local tabloid newspaper published daily, Monday to Saturday, in Newcastle, New South Wales, the largest non-capital city in Australia. It is the only local newspaper that serves the entire Hunter and Central Coast regions six days a week...

  • The Nyngan Observer
  • Pastoral Times (Deniliquin)
  • Port News (Port Macquarie
    Port Macquarie, New South Wales
    Port Macquarie is a city on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, located about north of Sydney, and south of Brisbane. The city is located on the coast, at the mouth of the Hastings River, and has an estimated population of 44,313....

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  • Port Stephens Examiner (Port Stephens)
  • The Quirindi Advocate
  • The Ridge News (Lightning Ridge
    Lightning Ridge, New South Wales
    Lightning Ridge is a town in north-western New South Wales, Australia, in Walgett Shire, near the southern border of Queensland. The Lightning Ridge area is a world epicentre of the mining of black opals and other opal gemstones. Lightning Ridge has the largest known deposits of black opals in the...

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  • The Riverine Grazier (Hay
    Hay, New South Wales
    Hay is a town in the western Riverina region of south western New South Wales , Australia.  It is the administrative centre of Hay Shire Local Government Area and the centre of a prosperous and productive agricultural district on the wide Hay Plains....

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  • The Scone Advocate
  • Tamworth City News (Tamworth
    Tamworth, New South Wales
    Tamworth is a city in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia. Straddling the Peel River, Tamworth, which contains an estimated population of 47,595 people, is the major regional centre for southern New England and in the local government area of Tamworth Regional Council. The city...

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  • The Tamworth Times (Tamworth
    Tamworth, New South Wales
    Tamworth is a city in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia. Straddling the Peel River, Tamworth, which contains an estimated population of 47,595 people, is the major regional centre for southern New England and in the local government area of Tamworth Regional Council. The city...

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  • The Tenterfield Star
  • The Tumut and Adelong Times
  • The Walgett Spectator
  • The Warren Advocate
  • The Western Advocate
  • The Western Herald (Bourke
    Bourke, New South Wales
    -Transportation:Bourke can be reached by the Mitchell Highway, with additional sealed roads from town to the north , east and south . The town is also served by Bourke Airport and has Countrylink bus service to other regional centres, like Dubbo...

    )
  • The Queanbeyan Age
    The Queanbeyan Age
    The Queanbeyan Age is a weekly newspaper based in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia. First published on the 15th September, 1860 by John Gale and his brother, Peter Francis Gale, The Golden Age, as it was known at the time, was the first newspaper of the small township on the banks of the...

  • The Wingham Chronicle

Defunct regional newspapers

  • Braidwood Liberal
  • Goulburn Chronicle
  • The Central Coast Sun Weekly (last published April 30, 2009)

Melbourne newspapers

  • The Age
    The Age
    The Age is a daily broadsheet newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and...

     (broadsheet).
  • Herald Sun
    Herald Sun
    The Herald Sun is a morning tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia. It is published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Limited, itself a subsidiary of News Corporation. It is available for purchase throughout Melbourne, Regional Victoria, Tasmania, the Australian Capital...

     (tabloid).
  • The Leader
    Leader Community Newspapers
    The Leader Community Newspaper group publishes 33 titles covering metropolitan Melbourne.It is has a circulation of 1.94 million readers per week...

     (The Leader Community Newspaper group publishes 33 local news titles covering metropolitan Melbourne
    Melbourne
    Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

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  • mX
    MX (newspaper)
    mX is an Australian free afternoon daily newspaper in the cities of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, owned and produced by News Limited. Targeted at commuters, its main channels of distribution are inner-city railway stations, tram and bus stops, and major CBD intersections.-Beginnings:The first mX...

     (free afternoon commuter newspaper).
  • G'day India (Indian Newspaper - Monthly Publication)

Defunct Melbourne newspapers

  • The Argus
    The Argus (Australia)
    The Argus was a morning daily newspaper in Melbourne established in 1846 and closed in 1957. Widely known as a conservative newspaper for most of its history, it adopted a left leaning approach from 1949...

     (1846–1957)
  • The Australasian (became the Australasian Post in 1946)
  • The Herald
    The Herald (Melbourne)
    The Herald was a broadsheet newspaper published in Melbourne, Australia from 1840 to 1990.The Port Phillip Herald was first published as a semi-weekly newspaper on 3 January 1840 from a weatherboard shack in Collins Street. It was the fourth newspaper to start in Melbourne.The paper took its name...

     (1840–1990)
  • The Melbourne Advertiser founded 1 January 1838
  • The Melbourne Express
    Melbourne Express
    Melbourne Express was a free newspaper distributed on weekday mornings at suburban railway stations in Melbourne, Australia.Melbourne Express was launched on 5 February 2001, one day before mX, another free newspaper also aimed at commuters, but distributed in the evenings. mX was, and still is,...

     (5 February 2001 - 10 September 2001)
  • Newsday
  • Port Phillip Gazette
    Port Phillip Gazette
    The Port Phillip Gazette was Melbourne's second newspaper. It was first published by Thomas Strode and George Arden in 1838.The first issue of the Port Phillip Gazette, a four page weekly appeared 27 October 1838. From 1 January 1840 it was published bi-weekly. In 1851 it became a daily...

     (1838–1951)
  • The Sun News-Pictorial
    The Sun News-Pictorial
    The Sun News-Pictorial, commonly known as The Sun, was a morning daily tabloid newspaper in Melbourne, Australia established in 1922 and closed in 1990.It was part of The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd stable of Melbourne newspapers...

     (1922–1990)
  • The Sunday Herald
  • The Sunday Sun
  • The Truth
    The Truth (newspaper)
    The Truth was a Melbourne tabloid newspaper established in 1902 as a subsidiary of the Sydney Truth, established in 1890.In its early years its politics was very much left-leaning, and it painted itself as the voice of the working class. Before 1945 it had a style of journalism that was high...

  • The Paper

Regional newspapers

  • The Latrobe Valley Express (Latrobe Valley and surrounding areas)
  • The Surfcoast Times (Surfcoast Shire)
  • The Echo
  • The Weekly Times
  • The Bellarine Times
  • The Bendigo Weekly
    Bendigo Weekly
    The Bendigo Weekly is a tabloid-size, full-colour newspaper published weekly throughout Bendigo, and country districts in central Victoria, including Woodend, Echuca, Wedderburn and Colbinabbin....

  • The Geelong Advertiser
    Geelong Advertiser
    The Geelong Advertiser is a daily newspaper servicing Geelong, Victoria, Australia, the Bellarine Peninsula and surrounding areas. The Geelong Advertiser is the oldest newspaper title in Victoria and the second oldest in Australia, and was first published on 21 November 1840. The newspaper is...

  • The Geelong News
    Geelong News
    The Geelong News is a free weekly paper delivered to houses in the Geelong region. It is published on Wednesdays with a circulation of over 70,000 copies. The focus of moststories are local community issues and sport...

  • The Courier
    The Courier (Ballarat)
    The Ballarat Courier is a daily newspaper circulating in the Ballarat region of regional Victoria.Its editor is Angela Carey. The newspaper is owned by Fairfax Media.-History:...

  • Ballarat News
  • The Warrnambool Standard
  • Shepparton News
  • Benalla Ensign
  • The Advertiser (Bendigo)
  • Sunraysia Daily
    Sunraysia Daily
    The Sunraysia Daily is a daily newspaper in the north-western Sunraysia region of Victoria, Australia. From its first publication in 1920 up until 14 September 2007, it was published in broadsheet format, changing to tabloid-size the following day....

     (Mildura)
  • The Guardian (Swan Hill)
  • The Moe and Narracan News
  • Riverine Herald
    Riverine Herald
    The Riverine Herald publishes Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for circulation throughout both the Campaspe and Murray shires. It is one newspaper among the McPherson Media Group.- Origins :...

     (Echuca)
  • Euroa Gazette
  • The Chronicle
    The Chronicle
    The Chronicle may refer to:Publications* The Chronicle * The Chronicle * The Chronicle * The Chronicle * The Chronicle The Chronicle may refer to:Publications* The Chronicle (Barton, Vermont)* The Chronicle (Dominica)* The Chronicle (Duke University)* The Chronicle (North Central College)* The...

     (Wangaratta)
  • The Gippsland Times (Sale, Maffra and surrounding areas)
  • The Echo
    The Echo
    The Echo may refer to:*The Echo , a novel by Minette Walters*The Echo *The Echo , opera by Frank Patterson premiered in June 1925 with tenor Forrest Lamont and soprano Marie Rappold*The Echo *Sigaw, a Filipino horror film...

  • The Traralgon Journal
  • The Advertiser (Bairnsdale)
  • Yr Australydd
    Yr Australydd
    Yr Australydd was an Australian monthly newspaper in the Welsh language published in Victoria between 1866 and 1872. Its name translates as The Australian....

     (defunct)
  • Ovens Constitution (defunct) 1856-1871?

Chronology of Ballarat Newspapers:

  • The Banner - the first newspaper to be published in Ballarat, a twice weekly, first issued on 11 September 1853, lasted only three weeks.
  • The Diggers Advocate - the first newspaper to be published in Ballarat sometime early in 1854 and defunct by March 1855.
  • The Ballarat Times and South(ern) Cross was published 4 March 1854 to 5 October 1861.
  • Ballarat Leader - only six editions 1856.
  • Ballarat Advertiser - also a short-lived local paper in 1856.
  • Creswick Chronicle - two or three issues only in 1850s.
  • Ballarat Trumpeter published in 1856 as a tri-weekly for about twelve months.
  • The Ballarat Star
    The Ballarat Star
    The Ballarat Star was a newspaper in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, first published on 22 September 1855. Its publication ended on 13 September 1924 when it was merged with its competitor, the Ballarat Courier....

     first edition published 22 September 1855 to September 1924 when it was amalgamated with The Ballarat Courier.
  • The Miner from 1 August 1856 until 24 June 1864s as a weekly edition of the Star.
  • The Chinese Advertiser followed by The English and Chinese Advertiser began weekly in August 1856 until around 1860.
  • The Tribune started in November 1856 and struggled for two years before its demise.
  • Standard published 10-26 November 1856.
  • The Nation - the reborn Standard only lasted for another six weeks.
  • Ballarat Punch began in 1857 for a short time, revived, struggled and disappeared in February 1870.
  • The Corn Stalk started in August 1857 and continued for about two years.
  • The Creswick Advertiser from 1858 until after the turn of the century.
  • North Grenville Mercury came into being on 24 March 1859 for twenty weeks.
  • The Tribune started 21 November 1861 and ended on 11 July 1863.
  • The Sun commenced 26 September 1864 and folded the following year.
  • The Evening Post first edition was 25 May 1863 and continued for decades. After several name changes it was called The Mail in the 1930s.
  • "The Ballarat Courier
    Courier
    A courier is a person or a company who delivers messages, packages, and mail. Couriers are distinguished from ordinary mail services by features such as speed, security, tracking, signature, specialization and individualization of express services, and swift delivery times, which are optional for...

     & District Mining & General Reporter" originated 10 June 1867 and continues to the present day (2011) as Ballarat's only daily newspaper.
  • Evening Mail Ballarat's second evening newspaper began 6 April 1869 and battled along for four years until incorporation with The Evening Post.
  • The Commonwealth first appeared in March 1870 as a monthly publication.
  • Sport a weekly which commenced 1887 and finished soon after a libel action.
  • Sporting World was brought out on 5 Apr 1890 and lasted for forty years.
  • Recreation was also dedicated to sport and also died with the advent of radio.
  • Evening Echo published from February 1895 until March 1929.
  • The Live Wire published 21 Aug 1921 and never again.
  • Ballarat News a free weekly, first printed 1974 and continues to the present (2011).

Brisbane newspapers

  • Brisbane News (free weekly magazine)
  • Brisbane Times
    Brisbane Times
    Brisbane Times is an Internet-based news site for Brisbane and Queensland, Australia. It was launched on 7 March 2007 by then-Queensland Premier Peter Beattie....

     (online)
  • The Courier-Mail
    The Courier-Mail
    The Courier-Mail is a daily newspaper published in Brisbane, Australia. Owned by News Limited, it is published daily from Monday to Saturday in tabloid format. Its editorial offices are located at Bowen Hills, in Brisbane's inner northern suburbs, and it is printed at Murarrie, in Brisbane's...

     (tabloid)
  • mX
    MX (newspaper)
    mX is an Australian free afternoon daily newspaper in the cities of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, owned and produced by News Limited. Targeted at commuters, its main channels of distribution are inner-city railway stations, tram and bus stops, and major CBD intersections.-Beginnings:The first mX...

     (free daily)
  • Newsbytes (online)

Defunct Brisbane newspapers

  • The Telegraph
    Telegraph (Brisbane)
    The Telegraph was a Brisbane evening newspaper first published on 1 Oct 1872. The final edition appeared on 5 Feb 1988. In its day it was recognised as one of the best news pictorial newspapers in the country...

  • Daily Sun
  • The Sunday Sun

Brisbane Community newspapers


Regional newspapers

  • Albert & Logan News
  • Ayr Advocate
  • Bowen Independent
  • Bundaberg NewsMail
  • Caboolture Shire Herald
  • Cairns Bulletin
  • Cairns Newspapers
  • Cairns Northern News
  • Cairns Sun
  • Cooktown Local News
  • Fraser Coast Chronicle
    Fraser Coast Chronicle
    The Fraser Coast Chronicle is a daily newspaper serving the Fraser Coast area in Queensland, Australia. The newspaper is owned by APN News & Media.The circulation of the Fraser Coast Chronicle is 9,550 Monday to Friday and 11,095 on Saturday....

  • Gold Coast Bulletin
  • Gold Coast Mail
    Gold Coast Mail
    The Gold Coast Mail is a weekly newspaper serving Australia's Gold Coast region, owned by APN News & Media.The paper dates back to the Gold Coast Hinterlander, first printed in 1977, which was merged with The Tweed Leader in 1988, to become the Gold Coast Mail, which was first published on 10...

  • Gold Coast Sun
  • Gympie Life
  • Gympie Times
  • Herbert River Express
  • Home Hill Observer
  • Innisfail Advocate
  • Ipswich News
  • Logan West Leader
  • The Daily Mercury
    The Daily Mercury
    The Daily Mercury is the only daily newspaper serving the Mackay region in Queensland, Australia and is published Monday to Saturday. The newspaper is printed by Mackay Printing and Publishing, part of APN News & Media...

  • Noosa News
  • Northern Herald PREVIOUSLY Millstream Times
  • Northern Times
  • Northern Miner
  • Pine Rivers Press
  • Port Douglas and Mossman Gazette
  • QT The Queensland Times
  • Southern Herald
  • Redcliffe & Bayside Herald
  • Sunshine Coast Daily
  • Tablelander
  • Tablelands Advertiser
    Tablelands Advertiser
    The Tablelands Advertiser is the weekly newspaper published for residents of the Atherton Tableland and Mareeba area.The Tablelands Advertiser has a home delivery system that covers around four times the area of any other publication in the region...

  • The Border Post
    The Border Post
    The Border Post is a Croatian action film directed by Rajko Grlić. It was released in 2006.-Synopsis:A JNA military border post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border in the late 1980s is thrown into disarray when its commander discovers he has syphilis, creating chaos in his bid to avoid his wife and...

  • The Cairns Post
    The Cairns Post
    The Cairns Post is a major News Corporation newspaper in Far North Queensland that exclusively serves the Cairns area. It has daily coverage on local, state, national and world news, plus a wide range of sections and liftouts covering health, beauty, cars and lifestyle.It is the oldest business in...

  • The Canungra Times]
  • The Chronicle (Toowoomba
    Toowoomba, Queensland
    Toowoomba is a city in Southern Queensland, Australia. It is located west of Queensland's capital city, Brisbane. With an estimated district population of 128,600, Toowoomba is Australia's second largest inland city and its largest non-capital inland city...

     and The Darling Downs)
  • The Gladstone Observer
    The Gladstone Observer
    The Observer is a daily newspaper serving Gladstone, Queensland in Australia. The newspaper is owned by APN News & Media and published from Monday to Saturday....

  • The Morning Bulletin
    The Morning Bulletin
    The Morning Bulletin is a daily newspaper service Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia and the surrounding areas of Central Queensland.-History:The Bulletin was established in July 1861...

  • The Noosa Journal
  • The Whitsunday Times
  • Toowoomba Chronicle
  • Torres News
  • Townsville Bulletin
    Townsville Bulletin
    The Townsville Bulletin is a daily newspaper published in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It is the only daily paper that serves the northern Queensland region. The paper has a print edition, a free World Wide Web edition, and a subscription digital edition.The newspaper is published by The...

  • Townsville Sun
  • Warwick Daily News
  • Western Cape Bulletin

Western Australia

Perth newspapers

  • The West Australian
    The West Australian
    The West Australian is the only locally-edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia, and is owned by ASX-listed Seven West Media . The West is published in tabloid format, as is the state's other major newspaper, The Sunday Times, a News Limited publication...

     (Tabloid).
  • The Sunday Times
    The Sunday Times (Western Australia)
    The Sunday Times, owned by News Limited, is a tabloid Sunday newspaper printed in Perth and distributed throughout Western Australia.-History:...

  • WA Business News
  • Nedlands Subiaco Post
    Post Newspapers
    Post Newspapers comprises the four editions of a community newspaper covering a group of western suburbs in Perth, Western Australia.The Post Newspapers group was established as the Subiaco Post by reporter Bret Christian and his wife Bettye in September 1977 at a house in Churchill Avenue,...


Defunct Perth newspapers

  • The Daily News
    Daily News (Perth)
    The Daily News was an afternoon daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia from 1882 until 1990, though its origin is traceable from 1840.-Origins:...

  • The Morning Herald c.1902.
  • The Independent
    The Independent (Perth)
    The Independent was a Perth, Western Australian based weekly newspaper owned by mining entrepreneurs Lang Hancock and Peter Wright....

  • The Western Mail
    Western Mail (Western Australia)
    The Western Mail, or Western Mail, was the name of two weekly newspapers published in Perth, Western Australia.-West Australian newspapers:...

  • The Call
  • The Mirror

Regional newspapers

  • Albany Advertiser
  • Broome Advertiser
  • Bunbury Herald
  • Bunbury Mail
  • Busselton-Margaret Times
  • Capes Herald
  • Countryman (statewide).
  • Darlington Review
    Darlington Review
    Darlington ReviewLocal monthly newspaper for Darlington, Western Australia.Possibly one of the longest lasting community newspapers of its sort in Western Australia, commenced in 1954...

  • Esperance Express
  • Geraldton Guardian
  • Goldfields Express (Goldfields Region).
  • Great Southern Herald (Katanning).
  • Harvey Reporter
  • Kalgoorlie Miner
    Kalgoorlie Miner
    The Kalgoorlie Miner is a daily newspaper circulating in the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder and the Goldfields-Esperance region....

  • Kimberley Echo
    Kimberley Echo
    Kimberley echo is a Kununurra, Kimberley, Western Australia based community newspaper.It was founded in 1980 by the late James O'Kenny and Brian Cole...

     (Kununurra).
  • Kimberley Times (Derby).
  • Mandurah Coastal Times
  • Mandurah Mail
  • Manjimup-Bridgetown Times
  • Mundaring Magazine
  • Murray Mail (Pinjarra)
  • Narrogin Observer
  • Northern Guardian (Carnarvon).
  • North West Times (Port Hedland).
  • Pilbara Echo (Karratha/Dampier/Pilbara) .
  • Pilbara News (Karratha).
  • Pinjarra Murray Times (Pinjarra).
  • Southern Avon Chronicle (Northam/York).
  • South Western Times (Bunbury).
  • Sound Telegraph (Rockingham).

Adelaide

  • The Advertiser (tabloid).
  • Sunday Mail
    Sunday Mail (Adelaide)
    The Sunday mail was founded in 1912 by Clarence Moody. Moody initially set up three newspapers - the Sporting mail, Saturday mail and the Mail. The first two titles lasted only two years and five years respectively...

  • The Independent Weekly
    The Independent Weekly
    The Independent Weekly, established in September 2004, is an independent newspaper published and circulated in Adelaide, capital of South Australia...

  • Messenger Newspapers
    Messenger Newspapers
    Messenger Newspapers is the publisher of 11 free suburban weekly newspapers together covering the Adelaide metropolitan area. Established by Roger Baynes in Port Adelaide in 1951, Messenger has since acquired other independent suburban titles to become Adelaide's only suburban newspaper group...

  • The Adelaide Review
  • AdelaideNow

Defunct Adelaide newspapers

  • The News (Adelaide)
    The News (Adelaide)
    The News was an afternoon daily tabloid newspaper in the city of Adelaide, South Australia.The newspaper was established in 1869 as the Evening Journal. In 1933, a controlling stake was taken by The Advertiser, controlled by the Herald and Weekly Times. HWT sold off The News in 1949, and Sir Keith...

  • Adelaide Aeroplane (Adelaide) (November 1919 - February 1920)
  • About Town (Adelaide) (December 1979 - August 1981)
  • Adelaide Echo (Adelaide) (September - October 1877)
  • Adelaide Guardian (Adelaide) (September - October 1839)
  • Adelaide Morning Chronicle (Adelaide) (June 1852 - November 1853)

Regional newspapers

  • The Border Chronicle (Bordertown
    Bordertown, South Australia
    Bordertown is a small South Australian town near the Victorian border. It is where the Dukes Highway and the railway line, the two main routes between Adelaide and Melbourne, cross Tatiara Creek....

    )
  • The Border Times (Pinnaroo
    Pinnaroo, South Australia
    Pinnaroo is a town in the Murray Mallee region of South Australia, near the border with Victoria 243 km east of Adelaide. Pinnaroo is on the Mallee Highway, and the railway line between Tailem Bend and Ouyen. The roadhouses on the highway are the first food and leg-stretch stop on the bus route...

    )
  • The Bunyip (Gawler)
  • The Country Times (Yorke Peninsula
    Yorke Peninsula
    The Yorke Peninsula is a peninsula located north-west and west of Adelaide in South Australia, Australia, between Spencer Gulf on the west and Gulf St Vincent on the east. It has geographic coordinates of...

    )
  • The Courier (Mount Barker
    Mount Barker
    Mount Barker may refer to one of two towns in Australia:* Mount Barker, South Australia* Mount Barker, Western AustraliaMount Barker may also refer to one of the following:...

    )
  • The Leader (Barossa Valley
    Barossa Valley
    The Barossa Valley is a major wine-producing region and tourist destination of South Australia, located 60 km northeast of Adelaide. It is the valley formed by the North Para River, and the Barossa Valley Way is the main road through the valley, connecting the main towns on the valley floor of...

    )
  • The Murray Pioneer (Renmark)
  • The Naracoorte Herald (Naracoorte)
  • The Northern Argus (Clare Valley
    Clare Valley
    The Clare Valley is one of Australia's oldest wine regions, best known for Riesling wines. It lies in the Mid North of South Australia, approximately 120 km north of Adelaide. The valley runs north-south, with Main North Road as the main thoroughfare....

    )
  • The Plains Producer (Balaklava
    Balaklava
    Balaklava is a former city on the Crimean peninsula and part of the city of Sevastopol which carries a special administrative status in Ukraine. It was a city in its own right until 1957 when it was formally incorporated into the municipal borders of Sevastopol by the Soviet government...

    )
  • The Port Lincoln Times (Port Lincoln)
  • The Recorder (Port Pirie
    Port Pirie, South Australia
    -Transport:Port Pirie is located off National Highway One. It is serviced by an airport five minutes out of the city.- Railways :The first railways in Port Pirie were of the narrow [3' 6"] gauge....

    )
  • The Southern Argus (Strathalbyn)
  • The Transcontinental (Port Augusta)
  • The Whyalla News (Whyalla)
  • The Border Watch
    The Border Watch
    The Border Watch is an Australian newspaper based in Mount Gambier, South Australia, owned by the Scott Group of Companies. Published Tuesday through Friday, the paper serves the City of Mount Gambier, the South Australian Limestone Coast and parts of Western Victoria...

    , (Mount Gambier)

Hobart newspapers

  • The Mercury
    The Mercury (Hobart)
    The Mercury is a daily newspaper, published in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, by Davies Brothers Pty Ltd, part of News Limited and News Corporation...

  • The Sunday Tasmanian
    The Mercury (Hobart)
    The Mercury is a daily newspaper, published in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, by Davies Brothers Pty Ltd, part of News Limited and News Corporation...


Defunct Hobart newspapers

  • The Hobart Town Gazette
    Hobart Town Gazette
    The Hobart Town Gazette was established in 1816 in Hobart, Van Diemen's Land as the Hobart Town Gazette, and Southern Reporter. In 1821 the name was changed to the Hobart Town Gazette, and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser...

     (1816–1821)
  • Saturday Evening Mercury (1954–1984)

Regional

  • The Examiner
    The Examiner (Tasmania)
    The Examiner is the daily newspaper of the city of Launceston and north-eastern Tasmania, Australia.- Overview :The Examiner was first published on 12 March 1842, founded by James Aikenhead. Its first editor was the Reverend John West. At first it was a weekly publication . The Examiner expanded to...

     (Launceston
    Launceston, Tasmania
    Launceston is a city in the north of the state of Tasmania, Australia at the junction of the North Esk and South Esk rivers where they become the Tamar River. Launceston is the second largest city in Tasmania after the state capital Hobart...

    )
  • The Advocate
    The Advocate (Australia)
    The Advocate is a local newspaper of Burnie, Tasmania, Australia. Its readership covers the North West Coast and West Coast of Tasmania, including towns such as Ulverstone, Devonport, Penguin, Wynyard, Latrobe and Smithton...

     (Burnie
    Burnie, Tasmania
    - Sport :Australian rules football is popular in Burnie. The city's team is the Burnie Dockers Football Club in the Tasmanian State League.Rugby union is also played in Burnie. The local club is the Burnie Rugby Union Club. They are the current Tasmanian Rugby Union Statewide Division Two Premiers...

    )
  • Tasmanian Country (Hobart)
  • The Gazette (New Norfolk
    New Norfolk, Tasmania
    -References:5. Fellowship of First Fleeters.6. New Norfolk's History and Achievements by Joe Cowburn and Rita Cox 1986-External links:* has extensive local information, history, photographs, resources and attractions...

    )
  • Huon Valley News (Franklin)
  • Circular Head Chronicle (Smithton)
  • North-Eastern Advertiser (Scottsdale
    Scottsdale, Tasmania
    Scottsdale is a town in the north-east of Tasmania, Australia. It lies on the Tasman Highway, around north-east of Launceston and south-east of the coastal town of Bridport. It is part of the Dorset Council....

    )
  • King Island Courier (Currie)
  • Eastern Shore Sun (Eastern Hobart)

Darwin community newspapers


Regional newspapers

  • Alice Springs News (Alice Springs)
  • Arafura Times
  • Centralian Advocate (Alice Springs)
  • Katherine Times (Katherine)
  • Litchfield Times (Darwin)
  • Top End Review

Australian Capital Territory

  • The Canberra Times
    The Canberra Times
    The Canberra Times newspaper was founded in 1926 in Canberra, Australia by Arthur Shakespeare.It was the second paper to be printed in the city, the first being The Federal Capital Pioneer. The paper was sold to the Fairfax group in the 1960s by Arthur Shakespeare on the condition that it continue...

     (broadsheet, liberal).
  • Christian Today (Australian edition) Christian Today
  • The Canberra Chronicle
  • The Good Neighbour
  • The Word

See also

  • ANPlan: The Australian Newspaper Plan - an initiative of Council of Australian State Libraries (CASL)
  • Australian Newspapers Online. Try searching Libraries Australia (the Australian national bibliographic database) to see which Libraries in Australia carry which newspaper/s.
  • Freedom of the press
    Freedom of the press
    Freedom of the press or freedom of the media is the freedom of communication and expression through vehicles including various electronic media and published materials...

  • Graphic design
    Graphic design
    Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...

  • History of British newspapers
    History of British newspapers
    During the 17th century, there were many kinds of publications, that told both news and rumours. Among these were pamphlets, posters, ballads etc. Even when the news periodicals emerged, many of these co-existed with them. A news periodical differs from these mainly because of its periodicity...

  • Journalism
    Journalism
    Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...

  • Jschool: Journalism Education & Training
    Jschool: Journalism Education & Training
    Jschool is an independent journalism college based in Brisbane, Australia.The college, founded in 2001, admitted its first students in 2002.-Diploma of Journalism:...

  • Lists of magazines
  • List of newspapers (by country)
  • List of student newspapers in Australia
  • Magazine
    Magazine
    Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

  • Mass media
    Mass media
    Mass media refers collectively to all media technologies which are intended to reach a large audience via mass communication. Broadcast media transmit their information electronically and comprise of television, film and radio, movies, CDs, DVDs and some other gadgets like cameras or video consoles...

  • Media of Australia
    Media of Australia
    Media in Australia is an important component of the Australian economy. Australian media is widely accessible and caters to a wide variety of audiences...

  • Media in Melbourne
    Media in Melbourne
    Relative to most other Australian cities, Melbourne media is unusual in its size and diversity.-Newspapers:Melbourne has two major and one minor daily newspapers...

  • Media in Sydney
    Media in Sydney
    Media in Sydney is internationally influential, with most Australian media companies and all major television networks headquarterd in Sydney. Sydney is often referred to as Australia's "media capital" since it completely dominates the media market in Australia. The book publishing industry in...

  • Newspaper circulation
    Newspaper circulation
    A newspaper's circulation is the number of copies it distributes on an average day. Circulation is one of the principal factors used to set advertising rates. Circulation is not always the same as copies sold, often called paid circulation, since some newspapers are distributed without cost to the...

  • Photojournalism
    Photojournalism
    Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism that creates images in order to tell a news story. It is now usually understood to refer only to still images, but in some cases the term also refers to video used in broadcast journalism...

  • Printing
    Printing
    Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing....


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