''The Bulletin'' was an Australian weekly magazine first published in
Sydney
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on 31 January 1880. The publication's focus was politics and business, with some literary content, and editions were often accompanied by cartoons and other illustrations. The views promoted by the magazine varied across different editors and owners, with the publication consequently considered either on the left or right of the
political spectrum
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at various stages in its history. ''The Bulletin'' was highly influential in Australian culture and politics until after the
First World War
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, and was then noted for its
nationalist
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, pro-labour, and
pro-republican writing.
It was revived as a modern
news magazine
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in the 1960s, and after merging with the Australian edition of
Newsweek
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in 1984 was retitled ''The Bulletin with Newsweek''. It was Australia's longest running magazine publication until the final issue was published in January 2008.
Early history
![Lithographer at work, 1880](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Lithographer_at_work%2C_1880.jpg)
''The Bulletin'' was founded by
J. F. Archibald
Jules François Archibald, known as J. F. Archibald, baptised John Feltham Archibald, (14 January 1856 – 10 September 1919), Australian journalist and publisher, was co-owner and editor of '' The Bulletin'' during the days of its greatest infl ...
and
John Haynes, with the first issue being published in 1880. The original content of ''The Bulletin'' consisted of a mix of political comment,
sensationalised news, and Australian literature.
For a short period in 1880, their first artist
William Macleod
William Macleod (27 October 1850 – 24 June 1929), was an Australian artist and a partner in '' The Bulletin''. He was described as generous, hospitable, a 'big man with a ponderous overhang of waistfront, a trim, grey beard, the curling moust ...
was also a partner.
In the early years, ''The Bulletin'' played a significant role in the encouragement and circulation of nationalist sentiments that remained influential far into the next century. Its writers and cartoonists regularly attacked the British, Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Jews, and Aborigines.
In 1886, editor
James Edmond
James Edmond (21 April 1859 – 21 March 1933) was a Scottish-Australian journalist and writer of short stories, and notable as an editor of '' The Bulletin''.
Edmond was born in Glasgow, the son of James Edmond, carpet-maker, and his wife Jane ...
changed ''The Bulletin''s nationalist banner from "Australia for Australians" to "Australia for the White Man".
An editorial, published in ''The Bulletin'' the following year, laid out its reasons for choosing such banners:
Its role in the Australian literary surge of the "Nineties" is far more ambiguous: as Sylvia Lawson, the biographer of Archibald, observed, "the heroes of the stockwhip and the wattle blossom ... scarcely existed in the ''Bulletin''".
Contributors
As ''The Bulletin'' evolved, it became known as a platform for young and aspiring writers to showcase their short stories and poems to large audiences. By 1890, it was the focal point of an emerging literary nationalism known as the "Bulletin School", and a number of its contributors, often called
bush poets, have become giants of
Australian literature
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. Notable writers associated with ''The Bulletin'' at this time include:
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Francis Adams
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William Astley
William Astley (13 August 1855 – 5 October 1911) was an Australian short-story writer who wrote under the pseudonym "Price Warung".
Astley was the second son of Captain Thomas Astley, a jeweller, and his wife Mary née Price. He was born in L ...
*
Barbara Baynton
Barbara Janet Baynton (née Lawrence; 4 June 1857 – 28 May 1929) was an Australian writer known primarily for her short stories about life in the bush. She published the collection '' Bush Studies'' (1902) and the novel ''Human Toll'' (1907), ...
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George Lewis Becke
George Lewis Becke (or Louis Becke; 18 June 1855 – 18 February 1913) was an Australian Pacific trader, short story writer and novelist.
Early life
Becke was born at Port Macquarie, New South Wales, son of Frederick Becke, Clerk of Petty Ses ...
*
Randolph Bedford
Randolph Bedford (born George Randolph Bedford 27 June 1868 – 7 July 1941) was an Australian poet, novelist, short story writer and Queensland state politician.
Early life
Bedford was born in Camperdown, Sydney, the son of Alfred Bedford, w ...
*
E.J. Brady
Edwin James Brady (7 August 1869 – 22 July 1952) was an Australian journalist and poet.
Personal life
From Irish parents, Brady was born at Carcoar, New South Wales, and was educated both in the United States and Sydney, Australia. Among hi ...
*
Christopher Brennan
Christopher John Brennan (1 November 1870 – 5 October 1932) was an Australian poet, scholar and literary critic.
Biography
Brennan was born in Haymarket, an inner suburb of Sydney, to Christopher Brennan (d. 1919), a brewer, and his wife Ma ...
*
Victor Daley
Victor James William Patrick Daley (5 September 1858 – 29 December 1905) was an Australian poet. Daley serves chiefly as an example of the Celtic Twilight in Australian verse. He also serves as a lyrical alternative to his contempora ...
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Frank Dalby Davison
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*
C. J. Dennis
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis (7 September 1876 – 22 June 1938), better known as C. J. Dennis, was an Australian poet and journalist known for his best-selling verse novel ''The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke'' (1915). Alongside ...
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Albert Dorrington
Albert Dorrington (27 September 1874 – 9 April 1953) was an English writer, active in Australia, who was born in Fulham, London, England.
Life
Dorrington arrived in Australia around 1890 as a sixteen-year-old and after brief stays in Melb ...
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Edward Dyson
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Ernest Favenc
Ernest Favenc (21 October 1845 – 14 November 1908) was an explorer of Australia, a journalist, author of verse, novels and short stories, and an historian.
Personal life
Favenc was born in Walworth, Surrey, England. Of Huguenot descent, he ...
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Joseph Furphy
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Mary Gilmore
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Gi ...
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C. A. Jeffries
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Biography
Jeffries was born in 1869 at Leigh Woods, near Bristol, England, and in 1878 was brought by his parents to New Zea ...
("Jeff")
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Henry Lawson
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Pattie Lewis
Pattie Fotheringhame, née Lewis ( – 1955), commonly referred to as Mrs J. Fotheringhame, was a journalist in Sydney, Australia, who wrote for ''The Bulletin (Australian periodical), The Bulletin'' as "Mab". She has been described as Sydney's fir ...
("Mab")
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Dorothy Mackellar
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Harry 'The Breaker' Morant
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John Shaw Neilson
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Will H. Ogilvie
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Nettie Palmer
Janet Gertrude "Nettie" Palmer (née Higgins) (18 August 1885 – 19 October 1964) was an Australian poet, essayist and Australia's leading literary critic of her day. She corresponded with women writers and collated the Centenary Gift Book which ...
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Vance Palmer
Edward Vivian "Vance" Palmer (28 August 1885 – 15 July 1959) was an Australian novelist, dramatist, essayist and critic.
Early life
Vance Palmer was born in Bundaberg, Queensland, on 28 August 1885 and attended the Ipswich Grammar School. With ...
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Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson
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Katherine Susannah Prichard
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Early life
Prichard was born in Levuka, Fiji in 1883 to Australian parents. She spent her childhood ...
*
Steele Rudd
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In 2009, as part of the Q150 celebrations, Rudd was named one of the ...
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Alfred Stephens
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*
Douglas Stewart Douglas Stewart may refer to:
*Douglas Stewart (poet) (1913–1985), Australian poet
*Edward Askew Sothern (1826–1881), English actor who was sometimes known as Douglas Stewart
* Douglas Stewart (equestrian) (1913–1991), British Olympic equestri ...
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Louise Mack
Marie Louise Hamilton Mack (10 October 1870 – 23 November 1935) was an Australian poet, journalist and novelist. She is most known for her writings and her involvement in World War I in 1914 as the first woman war correspondent in Belgium.
Bi ...
*
Ethel Turner
Ethel Turner (24 January 1870 – 8 April 1958) was an English-born Australian novelist and children's literature writer.
Life
She was born Ethel Mary Burwell in Doncaster in England. Her father died when she was two, leaving her mother Sarah J ...
*
Alexina Maude Wildman
Alexina Maude Wildman (28 February 1867 – 15 November 1896), also known as Ina Wildman, was an Australian journalist and columnist, known for writing weekly columns for '' The Bulletin'' magazine under her pen name "Sappho Smith". The first o ...
*
David McKee Wright
David McKee Wright (6 August 1869 – 5 February 1928) was an Irish-born poet and journalist, active in New Zealand and Australia.
Early life
Wright was born at Ballynaskeagh, County Down, Ireland, the second son of Rev. William Wright, D.D. (1 ...
A number of notable artists provided illustrations and cartoons for the publication. These include,
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Edward Ambrose Dyson
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Biography
He was born in Melbourne on 15 December 1908, the son of Ambros ...
*
Jimmy Bancks
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Biography
James Charles Bancks was born in Enmore, New South Wales, Australia on 10 May 1889, the son of an Irish ...
*
Les Dixon
Leslie Dixon (1910–2002), was an Australian cartoonist and commercial artist.
Biography
Dixon was born Leslie Charles Brailey in Sydney on 25 July 1910 and adopted by Charles and Lillian Dixon when he was only six months old. He attended ...
*
Ambrose Dyson
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*
Alexander George Gurney
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Family
The son of William George Gurney (1866-1903), and ...
*
Percy Leason
Percy Alexander Leason (23 February 1889 – 11 September 1959) was an Australian political cartoonist and artist who was a major figure in the Australian tonalist movement. As a painter and commercial artist his works span two continents.
Ea ...
*
Lionel Lindsay
Sir Lionel Arthur Lindsay (17 October 187422 May 1961) was an Australian artist, known for his paintings and etchings.
Early life
Lindsay was born in the Victorian town of Creswick, into a creative family – he was the brother of artist Norm ...
*
Norman Lindsay
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*
Ruby Lindsay
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Biography
Lindsay was born in Creswick, Victoria, the seventh child and second daughter of Robert and Jane ...
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David Low
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Jack Lusby
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Career and works
Lusby was born at Drummo ...
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Phil May
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Benjamin Minns
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Larry Pickering
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*
Norm Rice
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Early life
Rice graduated from th ...
*
Alfred Vincent
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Alf Vincent contributed work to the ''Melbourne Punch'' from 1895, in 1896 succeeding Tom Carrington as feature artist. After ...
*
Unk White
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White came to Sydney in 1922 with the artists Joe and Guy Lynch and was soon immersed in the bohemian sce ...
According to ''
The Times
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'' of London, "It was ''The Bulletin'' that educated Australia up to Federation".
In his 1923 novel ''
Kangaroo
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'', English author
D. H. Lawrence
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wrote of a character who reads ''The Bulletin'' and appreciates its straightforwardness and the "kick" in its writing: "It beat no solemn drums. It had no deadly earnestness. It was just stoical and spitefully humorous." In ''The Australian Language'' (1946), Sidney Baker wrote: "Perhaps never again will so much of the true nature of a country be caught up in the pages of a single journal". ''The Bulletin'' continued to support the creation of a distinctive Australian literature into the 20th century, most notably under the editorship of
Samuel Prior
Samuel Henry Prior (10 January 1869 – 6 June 1933), was an Australian journalist, manager and editor of ''The Bulletin (Australian periodical), The Bulletin''.
Prior was educated at Glenelg Grammar School and the Bendigo School of Mines and I ...
(1915–1933), who created the first novel competition.
The publication was
folio
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size and initially consisted of eight pages, increasing to 12 pages in July 1880, and had reached 48 pages by 1899. The first issue sold for four
pence
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, later reduced to three pence, and then, in 1883, was increased to six pence.
''A Woman's Letter''
The ''Bulletin'' was seen to be lacking a "gossip column" such as that conducted by "Mrs Gullett" in ''
The Daily Telegraph
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It was fo ...
''.
W. H. Traill
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, part-owner of the ''Bulletin'', was aware of the literary talents of his sister-in-law Pattie Lewis, who had been, as "Mab", writing children's stories for the ''
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''. He offered the 17-year-old a column to be called ''A Woman's Letter'', which involved reporting on the comings and goings of notable Sydney socialites.
In time the column became quite popular, and reportedly the first item looked for in the magazine by both men and women.
When Lewis married, it was she who recommended her successor, Ina Wildman, the audacious "Sappho Smith".
Seven women wrote the "Woman's Letter" for ''The Bulletin'':
*1881–1888
Pattie Lewis
Pattie Fotheringhame, née Lewis ( – 1955), commonly referred to as Mrs J. Fotheringhame, was a journalist in Sydney, Australia, who wrote for ''The Bulletin (Australian periodical), The Bulletin'' as "Mab". She has been described as Sydney's fir ...
(died 1955) as "Mab"; married James Fotheringhame in 1886
*1888–1896
Ina Wildman (died 1896) as "Sappho Smith"
*1896–1898
Florence Blair
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(died 1937), daughter of
David Blair, she married Archibald Boteler Baverstock in 1898.
*1898–1901
Louise Mack
Marie Louise Hamilton Mack (10 October 1870 – 23 November 1935) was an Australian poet, journalist and novelist. She is most known for her writings and her involvement in World War I in 1914 as the first woman war correspondent in Belgium.
Bi ...
(1870–1935) married John Percy Creed in 1896 and Allen I. Leyland in 1927.
*1901–1911
Agnes Conor O'Brien (died 1934) as "Akenehi" or "Lynette". She married artist and newspaperman
William Macleod
William Macleod (27 October 1850 – 24 June 1929), was an Australian artist and a partner in '' The Bulletin''. He was described as generous, hospitable, a 'big man with a ponderous overhang of waistfront, a trim, grey beard, the curling moust ...
in 1911
*1911–1919
Margaret Cox-Taylor (died July 1939) as "Vandorian"
*1919–1934
Nora Kelly as "Nora McAuliffe"
Later era
The literary character of ''The Bulletin'' continued until 1961, when it was bought by
Australian Consolidated Press
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(ACP), merged with the ''Observer'' (another ACP publication), and shifted to a news magazine format.
Donald Horne
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Horne was a proli ...
was appointed as chief editor and quickly removed "Australia for the White Man" from the banner. The magazine was costing ACP more than it made, but they accepted that price "for the prestige of publishing Australia's oldest magazine".
[ ]Kerry Packer
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, in particular, had a personal liking for the magazine and was determined to keep it alive.
In 1974, as a result of its publication of a leaked Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
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paper discussing Deputy Prime Minister Jim Cairns
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, the Whitlam Government called the Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security
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.
In the 1980s and 1990s, ''The Bulletin''s "ageing subscribers were not being replaced and its newsstand visibility had dwindled". Trevor Kennedy
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convinced publisher Richard Walsh to return to the magazine. Walsh promoted Lyndall Crisp to be its first female editor, but James Packer
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then advocated that former ''60 Minutes
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'' executive producer Gerald Stone
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Early years and career
Born in 1933 and raised in Columbus, Ohio, Stone graduated in poli ...
be made editor-in-chief. Later, in December 2002, Kerry Packer anointed Garry Linnell as editor-in-chief.
Kerry Packer died in 2005, and in 2007 James Packer sold controlling interest in the Packer media assets (PBL Media
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) to the private equity firm CVC Asia Pacific
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. On 24 January 2008, ACP Magazines announced that it was shutting ''The Bulletin''. Circulation had declined from its 1990s' levels of over 100,000 down to 57,000,[ which has been attributed in part to readers preferring the internet as their source for news and current affairs.]
Editors
''The Bulletin'' had many editors over its time in print, and these are listed below:
* J. F. Archibald
Jules François Archibald, known as J. F. Archibald, baptised John Feltham Archibald, (14 January 1856 – 10 September 1919), Australian journalist and publisher, was co-owner and editor of '' The Bulletin'' during the days of its greatest infl ...
* John Haynes
* William Henry Traill
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* James Edmond
James Edmond (21 April 1859 – 21 March 1933) was a Scottish-Australian journalist and writer of short stories, and notable as an editor of '' The Bulletin''.
Edmond was born in Glasgow, the son of James Edmond, carpet-maker, and his wife Jane ...
* Samuel Prior
Samuel Henry Prior (10 January 1869 – 6 June 1933), was an Australian journalist, manager and editor of ''The Bulletin (Australian periodical), The Bulletin''.
Prior was educated at Glenelg Grammar School and the Bendigo School of Mines and I ...
[Peter Kirkpatrick]
"Prior, Samuel Henry (1869–1933)"
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* John E. Webb
* David Adams
* Donald Horne
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Horne was a proli ...
* Peter Hastings
* Peter Coleman
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* Trevor Kennedy
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* James Hall
* Lyndall Crisp
* Gerald Stone
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* Max Walsh
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* David Dale
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* Paul Bailey
* Garry Linnell
* Kathy Bail
* John Lehmann
S. H. Prior
Samuel Henry Prior
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(10 January 1869 – 6 June 1933) was an Australian journalist and editor, best known for his editorship and ownership of ''The Bulletin''.[ Born in ]Brighton, South Australia
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, Prior was educated at Glenelg Grammar School
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and the Bendigo School of Mines and Industries The Bendigo School of Mines was established in Bendigo, Australia in 1873 to provide technical education, predominantly for the mining industry.
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. He started his career as a teacher, before becoming a mining reporter at the ''Bendigo Independent''. In 1887, he was assigned to Broken Hill, New South Wales, to report on the silver mine.["S. H. Prior"](_blank)
''AustLit''.[ He was briefly editor at the ''Broken Hill Times'' and then at its successor, ''Broken Hill Argus''. In 1889, Prior joined the ''Barrier Miner'' as editor, remaining in the role for 14 years,] during which time he displayed nationalism and championed trade unionism and the Federation of Australia.[
After sending some of his work to J. F. Archibald at the ''Sydney Bulletin'', he was appointed finance editor in 1903.][ In this role, he increased importance of the "Wild Cat" column, a financial and investment news and insights column focused on mining companies, which eventually (by 1923) grew into ''Wild Cat Monthly''. Prior was promoted to associate editor in 1912. In 1914, Archibald sold his shares in ''The Bulletin'' to Prior, making Prior the majority shareholder. In 1915, he became the senior editor, in which position he built ''The Bulletin''s reputation for literature and for financial journalism.][ In 1927, he was sold the remaining shares in ''The Bulletin'' and thus became not only its editor but its sole owner and manager. In 1928, he inaugurated the first ''Bulletin'' Novel Competition, offering aspiring writers prize money and the publishing of their work in ''The Bulletin''.
Prior remained editor until 1933, when he died from heart disease. In 1935, his son established the ]S. H. Prior Memorial Prize
The S.H. Prior Memorial Prize was an Australian literary award for a work of fiction. It was established in 1934 by H. K. Prior in recognition of his late father, Samuel Prior, Samuel Henry Prior, who was editor of ''The Bulletin (Australian perio ...
for a work of Australian literature. Prior's family retained control of the magazine until it was bought by Consolidated Press Ltd in 1960.[
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Garry Linnell
Garry Linnell joined ''The Bulletin'' in 2001 and became editor-in-chief in 2002, when the magazine was already dropping in circulation and running at a loss. On one occasion, Kerry Packer called Linnell to his office, and, when Linnell asked what Packer wanted for ''The Bulletin'', Packer said: "Son, just make 'em talk about it." When former Prime Minister Paul Keating
Paul John Keating (born 18 January 1944) is an Australian former politician and unionist who served as the 24th prime minister of Australia from 1991 to 1996, holding office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He previously serv ...
sent Linnell a letter criticising the magazine and calling it "rivettingly mediocre", Linnell published the letter in the magazine, promoted that "Paul Keating Writes for Us", and awarded Keating with "Letter of the Week", with the prize for that being a year's subscription to the magazine. In 2005, Linnell offered a $1.25-million reward to anyone who found an extinct Tasmanian tiger
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Columnists and bloggers
Regular columnists and bloggers on the magazine's website included:
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* Paul Daley
* Julie-Anne Davies
* Roy Eccleston
* Ellen Fanning
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* Katherine Fleming
* Chris Hammer
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* Laurie Oakes
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* Leo Schofield
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* Adam Shand
* Terrey Shaw
* Rebecca UrbanThebulletinblog.com.au
See also
*Bill Fitz Henry
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History
Fitz Henry worked for a while for '' The Lone Hand'' before joining ''The Bulletin'' as an office boy. He served as secretary t ...
*The Bookfellow
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