The ''Whitsunday Times'' was a weekly newspaper covering the

Whitsunday Shire The Shire of Whitsunday was a local government area located in the North Queensland region of Queensland, Australia. The shire, administered from the town of Proserpine, covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 19 ...

North Queensland North Queensland or the Northern Region is the northern part of the Australian state of Queensland that lies just south of Far North Queensland. Queensland is a massive state, larger than many countries, and its tropical northern part has been ...

, Australia. It continues on as digital-only masthead. Its circulation area includes

Airlie Beach Airlie Beach is a coastal locality in the Whitsunday Region of Queensland, Australia. In the , Airlie Beach had a population of 1,208 people. Geography Airlie Beach is one of many departure points for the Great Barrier Reef. Cruise ships visi ...

, Cannonvale, Proserpine, Bowen and surrounding suburbs and islands. It was published every Thursday, and an average of 7,342 copies were distributed, sold or home delivered across the region. It was published by

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. It was formerly printed by Mackay Printing and Publishing, part of

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History

It was founded in 1981 under the ''Airlie and Island News'' masthead. Along with many other regional Australian newspapers owned by

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, the newspaper ceased print editions in June 2020 and became an online-only publication from 26 June 2020.

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