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The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser was the first newspaper printed in Australia, running from 5 March 1803 until 20 October 1842. [1] It was a semi-official publication of the government of New South Wales, authorised by Governor Philip King and printed by George Howe. [2]
Australia Was the first newspaper in Australia Published weekly from 1803 to 1842 1831 The Sydney Morning Herald: English Sydney: Australia Is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia, originally called the Sydney Herald 1833 The West Australian: English Perth: Australia Second oldest continuously operated newspaper in Australia ...
Australia's first newspaper was the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, which began in 1803.In 1810, the second newspaper in Australia, the Derwent Star and Van Diemen's Land Intelligencer was founded in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), but it was short-lived and ceased publication the same year.
5 March – George Howe publishes the first issue of the weekly The Sydney Gazette and The New South Wales Advertiser, Australia's first newspaper. 19 April - Governor King proclaims toleration for Catholics and allows Fr James Dixon to say mass for Irish convicts. [1] [2] 14 May - Illegal Masonic meeting held in Sydney and all participants ...
Soon after he arrived George Howe became the government printer, and in 1802 printed New South Wales General Standing Orders consisting of 146 pages, the first book to be printed in Australia. In May 1803 Governor King, in a dispatch to Lord Hobart, mentioned the establishment of the Sydney Gazette as a weekly publication—its first number had ...
Connections between the West Indies and Australia began in the early days of European settlement. Australia’s first newspaper publisher, and founder of the Sydney Gazette in 1803 was George Howe, a white convict from the island of St Christopher.
Australia's most-read newspaper apologised for its coverage of a massacre two centuries ago in which it campaigned against prosecuting colonists who slaughtered dozens of Indigenous people, saying ...
Western Australia's only regional daily newspaper. 1 January 1896 – 13 January 1909: Morning Herald [2] [3] Perth; daily from Monday to Saturday: 19 December 1897 – present: The Sunday Times: Weekly on Sunday: Perth; distributed statewide. From its origin until 1902 was known as the "West Australian Sunday Times" 1897 - 1954: Albany Advertiser