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The Boomerang
''The Boomerang'' was a weekly newspaper published in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. History The newspaper was established by William Lane in 1887, publishing its first issue on 19 November 1887. James Drake, future Attorney-General of Australia, was a shareholder, writer and joint editor. In 1891, Lane was approached to be the editor of ''The Worker'', a newspaper being established by the local labour unions. As a consequence, Lane sold ''The Boomerang'' to Gresley Lukin. Lukin published the newspaper until 9 April 1892 after the company was voluntarily wound up. Alfred Stephens worked as a sub-editor, but left in 1891 to become editor and part proprietor of the '' Cairns Argus''. Other staff included Alfred Yewen. Zora Cross was a journalist for the paper for three years. No connection has been found between this newspaper and the 1894 Melbourne ''Boomerang'' weekly published by Edward Findley. A hand-written index to ''The Boomerang'' is held by the John Oxley Libr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brisbane
Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the states and territories of Australia, Australian state of Queensland, and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of the South East Queensland metropolitan region, which encompasses a population of around 3.8 million. The Brisbane central business district is situated within a peninsula of the Brisbane River about from its mouth at Moreton Bay, a bay of the Coral Sea. Brisbane is located in the hilly floodplain of the Brisbane River Valley between Moreton Bay and the Taylor Range, Taylor and D'Aguilar Range, D'Aguilar mountain ranges. It sprawls across several local government in Australia, local government areas, most centrally the City of Brisbane, Australia's most populous local government area. The demonym of Brisbane is ''Brisbanite''. The Traditional Owners of the Brisbane a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Stephens
Alfred George Stephens (28 August 1865 – 15 April 1933), commonly referred to as A. G. Stephens, was an Australian writer and literary critic, notably for '' The Bulletin''. He was appointed to that position by its owner, J. F. Archibald in 1894. Early life and journalism Stephens was born at Toowoomba, Queensland. His father, Samuel George Stephens, came from Swansea, Wales, and his mother, originally Euphemia Russell, was born in Greenock, Scotland. The first enrolled boy, he was educated at Toowoomba Grammar School until he was 15, and had a good grounding in English, French, and the classics, but his education was later much extended by wide reading. His father was part-owner of the ''Darling Downs Gazette'', and in its composing room the boy developed his first interest in printing. On leaving school he was employed in the printing department of William Henry Groom, proprietor of the ''Toowoomba Chronicle'', and later in the business of A. W. Beard, printer and bookbi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1887 Establishments In Australia
Events January–March * January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the Académie Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher. * January 20 ** The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base. ** British emigrant ship ''Kapunda'' sinks after a collision off the coast of Brazil, killing 303 with only 16 survivors. * January 21 ** The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is formed in the United States. ** Brisbane receives a one-day rainfall of (a record for any Australian capital city). * January 24 – Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat the Italians. * January 28 ** In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the largest snowflakes on record are reported. They are wide and thick. ** Construction work begins on the foundations of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. * February 2 – The first Groundhog Day is observed in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. * February 4 – The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers Published In Brisbane
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th century, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Library Of Queensland
The State Library of Queensland is the main reference and research library provided to the people of the State of Queensland, Australia, by the state government. Its legislative basis is provided by the Queensland Libraries Act 1988. It contains a significant portion of Queensland's documentary heritage, major reference and research collections, and is an advocate of and partner with public libraries across Queensland. The library is at Kurilpa Point, within the Queensland Cultural Centre on the Brisbane River at South Bank. History The Brisbane Public Library was established by the government of the Colony of Queensland in 1896, and was renamed the Public Library of Queensland in 1898. The library was opened to the public in 1902. In 1934, the Oxley Memorial Library (now the John Oxley Library), named for the explorer John Oxley, opened as a centre for research and study relating specifically to Queensland. The Libraries Act of 1943 established the Library Board of Queen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Findley
Edward Findley (8 September 1864 – 26 October 1947) was an Australian politician and publisher. He served as a Senator for Victoria from 1904 to 1917 and from 1923 to 1929, representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He was also a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1900 to 1901. Early life Findley was born in Bendigo, Victoria (then called Sandhurst), and was apprenticed as a compositor on ''The Bendigo Independent'' before moving to Melbourne in the early 1880s to work on the ''Daily Telegraph'', which closed in 1892. He became an active unionist and was elected president of the Australasian Typographical Union in 1897. He established a weekly newspaper, ''The Boomerang'' in 1894, but it ran for only eight issues. In 1896, he helped establish the '' Toscin'', a radical union weekly, which continued in publication until 1906. Political career Findley was elected as an Australian Labor Party member for the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Melbourne in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zora Cross
Zora Bernice May Cross (18 May 1890 – 22 January 1964) was an Australian poet, best-selling novelist and journalist. Life Zora Bernice May Cross was born on 18 May 1890 at Eagle Farm, Brisbane, to Earnest William Cross and Mary Louisa Eliza Ann. Her father was a Sydney born accountant. Cross published and was known for her serialised novels, books of poems and children's verse and inherited her love for literature from both her parents. She was educated at Ipswich Girls' Grammar School, Burwood Public School, Sydney Girls' High School and then Sydney Teachers' College from 1909 to 1910. As a child Zora was a prolific contributor to the Children's Corner in the ''Australian Town and Country Journal,'' where she attracted the attention of the editor, writer Ethel Turner, who went on to be a significant friend and mentor throughout Zora's writing career. Zora combined her teaching career with writing and acting, including tours with the Cherry Abraham's Comedy Costume Company i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Gregory Yewen
Alfred Gregory Yewen (16 May 1867 – 11 June 1923) was an Australian agricultural writer, journalist and socialist. Yewen was born in Croydon, Surrey, England and died in Newport, New South Wales. See also * William Lane * William Henry Thomas McNamara * Henry George * Gresley Lukin * William Morris Hughes * William Arthur Holman * Francis Mephan Gellatly * Sir Henry Parkes Sir Henry Parkes, (27 May 1815 – 27 April 1896) was a colonial Australian politician and longest non-consecutive Premier of the Colony of New South Wales, the present-day state of New South Wales in the Commonwealth of Australia. He has be ... References Australian journalists Australian socialists Australian people of English descent 1867 births 1923 deaths People from the London Borough of Croydon British emigrants to Australia {{Australia-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairns Argus
The ''Cairns Argus'', from 1911 onward Cairns Daily Argus, was a newspaper published from 1888 to 1918 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. History The newspaper was founded in 1888 by William Graham Henderson (1864, Edinburgh, Scotland - 1943, Atherton, Queensland). Thereafter it had a succession of owners. The Argus was published biweekly and three times weekly and from 1911 daily. In July 1918 the Council of Cairns made available advise from the publishers of the Cairns Times, a publication close to the labour movement, that they were taking over the Argus and forthwith coming out as a daily paper. The Times in turn would in be absorbed by the Cairns Post in December 1935. Alfred Stephens was editor and part-owner from 1891 to 1893. C. J. Fox was editor from May 1899 to February 1903, when he suffered a fall and died in Townsville Townsville is a city on the north-eastern coast of Queensland, Australia. With a population of 180,820 as of June 2018, it is the largest settl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warwick Argus
The ''Warwick Argus'' was a newspaper published in Warwick, Queensland, Australia from 1879 to 1919. History The Warwick Argus was preceded by the '' Warwick Argus and Tenterfield Chronicle'' published between November 1864 and 21 August 1879. The ''Warwick Argus'' was first published on Tuesday 26 August 1879, as a bi-weekly newspaper published on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Later it was published three times a week. Andrew Dunn bought the ''Warwick Argus'' in 1914 and installed his son William Dunn as editor. The last issue was published on 31 January 1919. It was subsequently merged with the ''Warwick Examiner and Times'' to create the ''Warwick Daily News''. Digitisation Issues of the ''Warwick Argus and Tenterfield Chronicle'' from 1866 to 1869 and from 1874 to 1879 and of the ''Warwick Argus'' from 1879 to 1901 have been digitised and made available online as part of the National Library of Australia The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland
) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_date = Colony of Queensland , established_title2 = Separation from New South Wales , established_date2 = 6 June 1859 , established_title3 = Federation , established_date3 = 1 January 1901 , named_for = Queen Victoria , demonym = , capital = Brisbane , largest_city = capital , coordinates = , admin_center_type = Administration , admin_center = 77 local government areas , leader_title1 = Monarch , leader_name1 = Charles III , leader_title2 = Governor , leader_name2 = Jeannette Young , leader_title3 = Premier , leader_name3 = Annastacia Palaszczuk ( ALP) , legislature = Parliament of Queensland , judiciary = Supreme Court of Queensland , national_representation = Parliament of Australia , national_representation_type ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mirror Of Australia
''The Mirror of Australia'' was an English-language newspaper published in Sydney, Australia from 1915 to 1917. It later merged with the ''Globe and Sunday Times War Pictorial'' and continued under the masthead of ''Mirror''. History The first issue of ''The Mirror of Australia'' appeared on 30 June 1915 and was modeled on the '' London Daily Mirror'' and ''London Daily Sketch'' papers. The last issue of ''The Mirror of Australia'' appeared on 19 May 1917. The paper was published during the First World War, and featured articles about Australian Imperial Forces and their engagement in the conflict. The paper is listed in the ''Union list of local newspapers in New South Wales public libraries''. Digitisation The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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