The Daily Standard (Brisbane)
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The Daily Standard was a newspaper
Newspaper
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 published in Brisbane
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, Queensland
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, Australia
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 from 1912 to 1936. The newspaper was closely affiliated with the Australian Labor Party
Australian Labor Party
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.

The newspaper was published from its first edition on Tuesday, 10 December 1912 through to its 7322nd edition on Tuesday, 7 July 1936.

The editors of The Daily Standard included:
  • Walter Russell Crampton
    Walter Russell Crampton
    Walter Russell Crampton was an Australian trade unionist, journalist and politician.-Personal life:Crampton was born in 1877 in Redfern, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, the eldest child of Walter James Crampton and Sarah Phillips.He left school at age 14 and then "humped his swag" around...



Contributors to The Daily Standard included:
  • Walter Russell Crampton
    Walter Russell Crampton
    Walter Russell Crampton was an Australian trade unionist, journalist and politician.-Personal life:Crampton was born in 1877 in Redfern, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, the eldest child of Walter James Crampton and Sarah Phillips.He left school at age 14 and then "humped his swag" around...

    , sometimes under the pseudonym
    Pseudonym
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     of Jack Aster
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