Post Newspapers comprises the four editions of a

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covering a group of western suburbs in

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, Western Australia.

History

The Post Newspapers group was established as the ''Subiaco Post'' by reporter

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and his wife Bettye in September 1977 at a house in Churchill Avenue, Subiaco. The first edition was published in September 1977. The paper moved to a former wine saloon in Keightley Road, Subiaco, in 1979, and moved again to Onslow Road in Shenton Park in 2006. The ''Post'' started as a monthly, became fortnightly in 1978 and went to weekly publication from 26 November 1980. While continuing to publish the ''Subiaco Post'', the Post Newspapers developed other suburban editions: '' Nedlands Post'' in April 1978, Claremont ''Post'' in July 1978, '' Cottesloe Post'' in August 1979, ''

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Post'' in November 1980 (the Cottesloe and Mosman Park edition were combined at that time), and the ''

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Post'' (formerly Floreat) in October 1981. All four are still published. The ''Post''s distribution area reaches as far south as

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, as far north as

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and

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, and as far east as West Perth and

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. The ''Post''s Time Out section has arts coverage; reviews of films, books and restaurants; and an

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column by Wayne and Tamara Mitchell. The page 4 Listening Post feature first appeared in 1989: the column includes gossipy or curious items. A semi-regular feature is photographs of people reading the paper at well-known tourist destinations or places of historic note. The first was published in 1993, when a Nedlands resident was photographed with the ''Post'' at the top of

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, in

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. Other residents have posed with the paper at the

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, in front of

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and underwater at the

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{{official website, postnewspapers.com.au/ Publications established in 1977 Newspaper companies of Australia Companies based in Perth, Western Australia Newspapers published in Perth, Western Australia

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