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The Border Chronicle
''The'' ''Border Chronicle'' is a weekly newspaper published in Bordertown, South Australia from June 1908 to the present day. Its head office is in Smith Street, Naracoorte. It was later sold to Rural Press, previously owned by Fairfax Media, but now an Australian media company trading as Australian Community Media. History The paper's founder was Leslie Duncan. The first issue of ''The Border Chronicle'' (subtitled: "The only newspaper printed in the huge Tatiara District") was Saturday 13 June 1908. It described itself as "A Journal devoted to the News of the district. the various markets, and condensed reports of State, Inter-State and World's News". It was published in broadsheet style, in a press at the rear of Bordertown's first Institute building on Woolshed Street. Donald Campbell became the sole proprietor in 1931. In 1939, the paper moved to 74 DeCourcey Street in Bordertown, and in 1950 it was bought by Roy Poulton and Ross Warne. The business continued as Neil Poult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bordertown, South Australia
Bordertown, formerly Border Town, is a town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's east near the state border with Victoria about east of the state capital of Adelaide. It is where the Dukes Highway and the railway line cross the Tatiara Creek between Adelaide and Melbourne, the capital of Victoria. Bordertown is the commercial and administrative centre of the Tatiara District Council. ''Tatiara'' is the local Aboriginal word for "Good Country". History Bordertown was established in 1852 when a direct route across the Ninety Mile Desert was being planned for gold escorts from the Victorian goldfields to Adelaide. Police Inspector Alexander Tolmer was instructed to create a town as close as practical to the border. Tolmer was upset when the town was not named after him, but that was made up for by naming several sites around Bordertown after him, such as Tolmer Park and Tolmer Takeaway. Land was first offered for sale in the new governme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tintinara, South Australia
Tintinara is a town located in the Regions of South Australia#Murray and Mallee, Murray and Mallee region of the South East of South Australia. The town is situated on the Dukes Highway and the Adelaide-Melbourne railway line. It is in The Coorong District Council Local government in Australia, local government area, the South Australian House of Assembly Electoral district of MacKillop and the Australian House of Representatives Division of Barker. At the 2016 Australian census, the town and district had a population of 527. The origin of the name has been debated. One possibility is that a local indigenous Australians, Aboriginal man was named ''Tin-Tin'', and the 'ara' was appended to form the place name, or that one of the Boothbys' Aboriginal employees was named Tintinara. Geoff Manning suggests that the name may have derived from an Aboriginal word, ''tinlinyara'', the stars in Orion (constellation), Orion's belt. History The area was first settled by Europeans in the 1840 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers Established In 1908
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] |
Newspapers Published In South Australia
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] |
Trove
Trove is an Australian online library database owned by the National Library of Australia in which it holds partnerships with source providers National and State Libraries Australia, an aggregator and service which includes full text documents, digital images, bibliographic and holdings data of items which are not available digitally, and a free faceted-search engine as a discovery tool. Content The database includes archives, images, newspapers, official documents, archived websites, manuscripts and other types of data. it is one of the most well-respected and accessed GLAM services in Australia, with over 70,000 daily users. Based on antecedents dating back to 1996, the first version of Trove was released for public use in late 2009. It includes content from libraries, museums, archives, repositories and other organisations with a focus on Australia. It allows searching of catalogue entries of books in Australian libraries (some fully available online), academic and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Library Of Australia
The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the ''National Library Act 1960'' for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the Australians, Australian people", thus functioning as a national library. It is located in Parkes, Australian Capital Territory, Parkes, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, ACT. Created in 1960 by the ''National Library Act'', by the end of June 2019 its collection contained 7,717,579 items, with its manuscript material occupying of shelf space. The NLA also hosts and manages the renowned Trove cultural heritage discovery service, which includes access to the Australian Web Archive and National edeposit (NED), a large collection of digitisation, digitised newspapers, official documents, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaniva, Victoria
Kaniva is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located on the Western Highway, north of Little Desert National Park, in the Shire of West Wimmera local government area. It is located roughly east of the South Australian border and east of Bordertown. At the 2016 census, Kaniva had a population of 803. The town is commonly used as a rest point for those travelling between Melbourne and Adelaide. The Kaniva region has some rare flora and fauna. The rare south-eastern red-tailed black cockatoo is found in the region. The Shire of West Wimmera prohibits the felling of dead trees to ensure that they have adequate nesting sites. Economy Kaniva's economy is heavily based on agriculture. According to the 2006 Census 31 percent of employed people are engaged in the sheep, cattle and grain farming industry. The wool industry is celebrated with Kaniva's 'sheep art'; statues along the main street painted by local community groups. When the local fuel station was threatened with clos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coonalpyn, South Australia
Coonalpyn is a town and a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about south-east of the state capital of Adelaide and about south-east of the municipal seat in Tailem Bend. It is situated in the local government area of the Coorong District Council and is in the State electoratal district of MacKillop and the Federal division of Barker. At the 2016 census, the locality had a population of 353 of which 195 lived in its town centre. Origin of the name This town's name is derived from the Aboriginal word ''Coonalpyn'', meaning ''Barren Woman''. ''Coonalpyn Downs'' was chosen by John Barton Hack to name the property and the railway station within this property. History The town of Coonalpyn was proclaimed on 25 November 1909. In 1927, the Congregational Church in Coonalpyn erected its church building, and is now the Coonalpyn Uniting Church. Coonalpyn was originally known as part of the Ninety Mile Desert, until in approximately 1949 when the land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolseley, South Australia
Wolseley (formerly Tatiara) is a small South Australian town near the Victorian border. It is five kilometres south of the Dukes Highway and 13 kilometres east of Bordertown. It was first proclaimed a town in 1884. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Wolseley had a population of 180 people. History The town was surveyed in 1884, and initially named Tatiara, which was described as an "Aboriginal word from the Jackegilbrab Tribe which HC Talbot states is divided into six clans (Kooinkill, Wirriga, Chala, Camiaguigara, Niall & Nunkoora)". The railway station was named after Lord Wolseley, who was the Commander-in-Chief of the British Army. The name of the town was changed to match the name of the station on 20 February 1941. Early in World War II, RAAF No. 12 Inland Aircraft Fuel Depot was established at Wolseley, with an initial capacity of in three tanks camouflaged to look like farm buildings. The depot started operations in 1942 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rural Press
Australian Community Media (ACM) is a media company in Australia responsible for over 160 regional publications. Its mastheads include the ''Canberra Times'', ''Newcastle Herald'', '' The Examiner'', ''The Border Mail'', '' The Courier'' and the ''Illawarra Mercury'' along with more than one hundred community-based websites across Australia and numerous agricultural publications including '' The Land'' and ''Queensland Country Life''. The entity was formerly owned by Fairfax Media prior to its merger with Nine Entertainment in 2018. In April 2019, Nine sold the business to former chief executive of real estate platform Domain Antony Catalano and billionaire Alex Waislitz. History ACM's origins can be traced back to '' The Land'', founded in Sydney in 1911. In subsequent decades, ''The Land'' acquired various other community newspapers. In September 1970, John Fairfax acquired a 25% shareholding. In 1981 the company was renamed Rural Press. In 1985, John Fairfax increased its s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Padthaway, South Australia
Padthaway is a small town in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's south-east within the Limestone Coast region about south east of the state capital of Adelaide and about south-east of the municipal seat of Bordertown. The name is derived from the Potawurutj, the Aboriginal name word for ''cover'' or ''bury''. Padthaway is in the Tatiara District Council, the state electorate of MacKillop and the federal Division of Barker. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Padthaway had a population of 418 people. History Padthaway was the name of the original pastoral station which was established on Bodaruwitj Aboriginal lands in this area in 1847 by a successful Scottish businessman, Robert Lawson. In 1882 the Padthaway Estate Homestead was built by Eliza and Robert Lawson. The historic Padthaway Estate complex is listed on the South Australian Heritage Register. In 1952 Padthaway became the centre of a soldier settl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mundulla, South Australia
Mundulla is a town and a locality in south eastern South Australia. The town is located in the local government area of Tatiara District Council about south east of the state capital of Adelaide. The name of the town is derived from the Aboriginal word ''mantala'' meaning "place of thunder", referring to a rumbling sound made when trampling on the earth. The Council enquired about the spelling in 1965 and the Postmaster General proposed to change it to Mundalla in 1972, but this was not approved by the Geographical Names Board. At the 2016 census, the locality had a population of 436 of which 314 lived in its town centre. The Mundulla school opened in 1878. An Australian rules football club, Mundulla Football Club, compete in the Kowree Naracoorte Tatiara Football League. In 2016 Mundulla was the subject of an episode of Back Roads. Heritage listings Mundulla has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: * Lot 30 Jewell Street: Wirrega Council Chambers * 22 Nalang Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
