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Australian Newspaper History: a Bibliography Australian Newspaper History: A Bibliography Compiled by Victor Isaacs, Rod Kirkpatrick and John Russell. First published in 2004 by Australian Newspaper History Group 13 Sumac Street Middle Park Queensland 4074 © Australian Newspaper History group This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be addressed to the publisher. A cataloguing record for this book is available from the National Library of Australia. Isaacs, Victor, 1949 –, and Kirkpatrick, Rod, 1943 – , and Russell, John, 1939 – Australian Newspaper History: A Bibliography ISBN 0-9751552-1-0 Printed in Australia by Snap Printing, Sumner Park, Queensland. 2 The compilers This bibliography is another product of the active minds belonging to key members of the Australian Newspaper History Group. The founder of the group, Victor Isaacs, was the inspiration for the bibliography. Isaacs, of Canberra, has interests in newspaper, political and railway history. Rod Kirkpatrick, of Brisbane, is a journalism educator, newspaper historian, former provincial daily newspaper editor and the author of histories of the provincial presses of Queensland and New South Wales. He has nearly completed writing a history of the national provincial daily press. He is the Program Director, Journalism, in the School of Journalism and Communication, University of Queensland, Brisbane. John Russell, of Canberra, has interests in the history of colonial printing and publishing especially newspapers and periodicals, the role of women, and labour in print. The compilers would be pleased to hear of additional entries and corrections. Please send to Victor Isaacs, email to [email protected], or post to him at 43 Lowanna St, Braddon ACT 2612. Every issue of the Australian Newspaper History Group Newsletter from its establishment in October 1999 contains a cornucopia of articles, chronologies and reviews about Australian newspaper history and current developments. Only the longer articles are indexed here. The Australian Newspaper History Group Newsletter is available free to those on email, or for $30 for hard copies (10 issues) by cheque payable to R. Kirkpatrick (ANHG). Write to the editor, Rod Kirkpatrick: E-mail address is [email protected] and postal address is 13 Sumac Street, Middle Park, Qld, 4074. Institutional subscriptions are $33. Abbreviations: ANHG Newsletter is the Australian Newspaper History Group Newsletter. PANPA Bulletin is published by the Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers Association. August 2004 3 1. AUSTRALIA-WIDE 7 1.1. Historical. .........................................................................................7 1.2. The media generally. ......................................................................14 1.3. Nineteenth-century printers and publishers. ..................................16 1.4. Newspaper directories and listings.................................................18 1.5 Journalists and Journalism. .............................................................21 1.6. Rupert Murdoch. ............................................................................23 2. CAPITAL CITY NEWSPAPERS ........................................................24 2.1. Sydney ............................................................................................24 2.1.1. General histories ......................................................................24 2.1.2. Sydney Gazette. ........................................................................25 2.1.3. Sydney Morning Herald and the Fairfaxes (family and Co.). .26 2.1.4. Consolidated Press and the Packers.........................................28 2.1.5. Biographies in Australian Dictionary of Biography................29 2.1.6. Memoirs. ..................................................................................29 2.1.7. Facsimiles.................................................................................30 2.2. Melbourne.......................................................................................31 2.2.1. General.....................................................................................31 2.2.2. Argus and Star..........................................................................33 2.2.3. Age. ..........................................................................................35 2.2.4. Herald, Sun and Weekly Times. ...............................................36 2.2.5. Biographies in the Australian Dictionary of Biography..........36 2.2.6. Facsimiles.................................................................................37 2.3. Brisbane..........................................................................................38 2.4. Perth................................................................................................39 2.5. Adelaide..........................................................................................40 2.6. Canberra. ........................................................................................41 4 2.7. Hobart.............................................................................................42 2.8. Darwin……………………………………………………………42 3. NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS...............................................................43 4. PROVINCIAL NEWSPAPERS ...........................................................45 4.1. Australia-Wide. ..............................................................................45 4.2. New South Wales. ..........................................................................46 4.2.1. Albury-Wodonga. ....................................................................46 4.2.2. Newcastle.................................................................................47 4.2.3. Other New South Welsh towns, and general...........................47 4.3. Victoria...........................................................................................53 4.3.1. Ballarat.....................................................................................53 4.3.2. Bendigo ....................................................................................53 4.3.3. Geelong ....................................................................................54 4.3.4. Other Victorian towns, and general. ........................................54 4.4. Queensland. ....................................................................................56 4.4.1 Cairns ........................................................................................56 4.4.2. Charters Towers.......................................................................57 4.4.3. Maryborough, Qld....................................................................57 4.4.4. Rockhampton ...........................................................................58 4.4.5. Toowoomba .............................................................................58 4.4.6. Townsville................................................................................59 4.4.7. Warwick...................................................................................59 4.4.8. Other Queensland towns, and general .....................................60 5 4.5. Western Australia...........................................................................62 4.5.1. Kalgoorlie ................................................................................62 4.5.2. Other Western Australian towns, and general .........................63 4.6. South Australia...............................................................................63 4.7. Tasmania.........................................................................................64 5. INDIGENOUS and ETHNIC PRESS ..................................................65 6. INDUSTRIAL ......................................................................................67 7. AUTHOR ALPHABETICAL INDEX .................................................68 6 1. AUSTRALIA-WIDE 1.1. Historical. Beavan, G.R. (1993), ‘A critique of newspaper history’, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 17 (1): 5-15. Bennett, Bruce, ed. (1981), Cross currents: Magazines and Newspapers in Australian Literature, Melbourne: Longman Cheshire. Bonwick, James (1890), Early Struggles of the Australian Press, London: Gordon and Gotch. A general introduction to the colonial press in Australia. Cannon, Judy (2004), ‘The National Press Club: home of Australia’s fourth estate’, National Library of Australia News, June: 18-21. Carroll, Vic (2003), ‘The development of national newspapers in the second half of the twentieth century’, in The Australian Press: A Bicentennial Retrospect, Australian Newspaper History Group. Corden, W.M. (1956), ‘Towards a history of the Australian press’, Meanjin, June. Cryle, Denis (1992), ‘The Australian newspaper industry: inter-colonial perspectives’, Australian Studies in Journalism, 1: 101-112. Cryle, Denis, (1993), ‘The popular press in colonial Australia: a culture industry perspective’, Australian Studies in Journalism, 2: 38-45. Cryle, Denis and others (1997), Disreputable Profession: Journalists and Journalism in Colonial Australia, Rockhampton, Queensland: Central Queensland University Press. Contains a variety of articles from around Australia. Cryle, Denis (1996), ‘“Culture and Commerce”: Gordon and Gotch in Australia 1890-1940’, History of the Book in Australia,
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