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Weekend News (Perth, Western Australia)
The ''Daily News'', historically a successor of ''The Inquirer'' and ''The Inquirer and Commercial News'', was an afternoon daily English language newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia, from 1882 to 1990, though its origin is traceable from 1840. History One of the early newspapers of the Western Australian colony was '' The Inquirer'', established by Francis Lochee and William Tanner on 5 August 1840. Lochee became sole proprietor and editor in 1843 until May 1847 when he sold the operation to the paper's former compositor Edmund Stirling. In July 1855, ''The Inquirer'' merged with the recently established ''Commercial News and Shipping Gazette'', owned by Robert John Sholl, as '' The Inquirer & Commercial News''. It ran under the joint ownership of Stirling and Sholl. Sholl departed and, from April 1873, the paper was produced by Stirling and his three sons, trading as Stirling & Sons. Edmund Stirling retired five years later and his three sons took control as S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perth
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is part of the South West Land Division of Western Australia, with most of the metropolitan area on the Swan Coastal Plain between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp. The city has expanded outward from the original British settlements on the Swan River, upon which the city's central business district and port of Fremantle are situated. Perth is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people, where Aboriginal Australians have lived for at least 45,000 years. Captain James Stirling founded Perth in 1829 as the administrative centre of the Swan River Colony. It was named after the city of Perth in Scotland, due to the influence of Stirling's patron Sir George Murray, who had connections with the area. It gained city statu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Carson
Alfred Carson OBE (7 November 1859 – 24 August 1944) was an Australian journalist and social worker. Biography Carson was born at Upper Swan in Western Australia to wheelwright George Carson and Charlot, ''née'' Hadley. After attending government schools he began teaching at Perth Boys' School as an assistant master when he was eighteen, becoming headmaster of the Geraldton government school in August 1878. On 5 August 1884 he married Eva Massingham of Dongara. In 1887 he joined the staff of the Victorian Express and was soon the editor. In July 1892 he was appointed inaugural editor of the ''Geraldton and Murchison Telegraph''. In January 1896 he worked for ''The West Australian'', eventually becoming associate editor. In 1912 he became editor of the '' Western Mail'' and in 1917 conducted the ''West Australians case in the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration case that determined the first journalists' award. He also travelled to the Western Front and the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Newspapers In Australia
This is a list of newspapers in Australia. For other older newspapers, see list of defunct newspapers of Australia. National In 1950, the number of national daily newspapers in Australia was 54 and it increased to 65 in 1965. Daily newspapers * ''The Australian'' (broadsheet) * ''The Australian Financial Review'' * ''The Guardian Australia'' (online) Weekly newspapers * ''The Saturday Paper'' * ''Green Left'' * ''The Weekly Times'' Bi-weekly and monthly newspapers * ''Koori Mail'', bi-weekly * '' Nichigo Press'' national edition, monthly, Japanese * ''The Life News'' national edition, fortnightly, English New South Wales Sydney and regional newspapers There are many newspapers published in the State of New South Wales, serving both the capital, Sydney and the regions. Some newspapers are defunct; some have been renamed; some have been amalgamated. The two main Sydney newspapers are ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', which was founded in 1831 when the state was still a colon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Library Of Western Australia
The State Library of Western Australia is a research, education, reference and public lending library located in the Perth Cultural Centre in Perth, Western Australia. It is a portfolio agency of the Western Australia Department of Culture and the Arts, and facilitated by the Library Board of Western Australia. The State Library has particular responsibility for collecting, preserving and digitising Western Australia's heritage materials. The Battye Library of West Australian History is the section of the Library dedicated to West Australian historical materials. History In 1886, the Western Australian Legislative Council allocated £5000 to be spent in celebrations for Queen Victoria's golden jubilee. Of this, it was decided that £3000 would be used to establish a free public library in Perth. A foundation stone was laid at a site in St Georges Terrace in 1887, however due to the lack of funds this site was not built upon. Instead, books to the value of £1000 were ord ... [...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] |
Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program
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] |
Llewelyn David Bevan
Llewelyn David Bevan (11 September 1842 – 19 July 1918) was a Congregational church minister and academic active in Australia.Gunson, Niel;Bevan, Llewelyn David (1842 - 1918), ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Volume 7, MUP, 1979, pp 283-285. Early life Bevan was born in Llanelly, Carmarthen, Wales, son of Hopkin Bevan, actuary, and his wife Eliza, ''née'' Davies, a Congregational minister's daughter. Bevan had plans for a legal career, but was converted by the preaching of Henry Grattan Guinness. Bevan studied at New College, then at the University of London (B.A., 1862 and LL.B. 1865) . Ordained in 1865, Bevan assisted Thomas Binney at King's Weigh House Chapel; then 1869-75 was minister of Tottenham Court Chapel and the building, one of the largest Congregational churches in London, was often crowded. Bevan married Louisa Jane, ''née'' Willett in Southampton on 2 April 1870. In 1873 Bevan won the Marylebone seat on the London School Board supporting 'free, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirwan Ward
Edward Bernard "Bernie" Kirwan Ward (2 April 1909 – 5 March 1983) was a journalist most notable for his work with the Daily News in Perth, Western Australia. Early life Kirwan Ward was born in Shotover, Oxfordshire one of eight children of Norman and Bertha Kirwan Ward. At the age of 18 he moved with his family to Australia. In Perth he worked a number of jobs including work as an insurance clerk and a shoe salesman. War Kirwan Ward joined the Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve in 1942 and was discharged in 1946. Writing Jim Macartney, editor of the Daily News offered him a backpage daily column in the newspaper when he left active service. From 1954 he was joined by cartoonist Paul Rigby who often travelled on assignment with Kirwan Ward. The column, Peepshow, written under the pen name Kirwan Ward was published six days a week from 1946 until 1974. From 1974 until his death in 1983 he published two columns a week. Honours In 1978 he was made an MBE Mbe may refer to: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Rigby
Paul Crispin Rigby AM (25 October 1924 – 15 November 2006) was an Australian cartoonist who worked for newspapers in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. He usually worked under the name Rigby. Early life Rigby was born in Sandringham, Victoria,The Independent (2 January 2007) ''Paul Rigby Australia's - No 1 Cartoonist''. Retrieved 28 March 2015. on 25 October 1924, the second son of James Rigby, a telephone engineer, and his wife Violet Wood. He studied at Brighton Technical School before leaving at 15 to work as a |
Amanda Platell
Amanda Jane Platell (born 12 November 1957) is an Australian journalist. Between 1999 and 2001 she was the press secretary to William Hague, the then leader of the British Conservative Party. She is currently based in the UK. Personal life Platell was born in Perth, Western Australia. Her father was a journalist working for ''The West Australian'' newspaper and her mother was a secretary. Platell graduated with an Honours Degree in Politics and Philosophy from the University of Western Australia, her first job was in 1978 when she joined the '' Perth Daily News.'' She has lamented that for medical reasons she has been unable to have children. Early British career After a backpacking tour of the world with her then fiancé John Chenery, she arrived in London in 1985. Aiming to earn enough money to return home she worked as a freelancer for publications including ''The Observer'' and the ''Sunday Express.'' After being part of the start-up team of ''Today,'' she then joined Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Lovekin
Arthur Lovekin (12 November 1859 – 10 December 1931) was a journalist, newspaper editor and owner, and politician. Early life Lovekin was probably born in Slough, Buckinghamshire. He was partly educated at St Edmund's School, Canterbury, from 1871–75. Victoria and South Australia He came to Australia in 1879 and worked in Victoria for 12 months as a surveyor. The next year he joined The Age in Melbourne as a journalist; he married Elizabeth Jane Letcher on 26 June 1882. In 1883 he joined the South Australian Register, "and with Thomas Harry formed a partnership as public shorthand writers in 1885." Western Australia In 1886, Lovekin was a senior reporter on the ''Fremantle Herald'': "the colony's first radical newspaper", according to the ''Australian Dictionary of Biography''. The ''Herald'' was absorbed by the owners of a rival newspaper, '' Daily News'', and in 1890, Lovekin became company secretary and director. In 1893, in England, he bought machinery which enabled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
