''Nation Review'' was an Australian Sunday newspaper, which ceased publication in 1981. It was launched in 1972 after independent publisher

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bought out Tom Fitzgerald's ''

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'' publication and merged it with his own ''Sunday Review'' journal.

Background

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, Richard Beckett a.k.a. Sam Orr, Mungo MacCallum, John Hindle, Francis James,

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, Fred Flatow and Jenny Brown a.k.a. Zesta (now Jen Jewel Brown). The paper was self-styled "The Ferret", fancying itself as "lean and nosey". ''Nation Review'' was aimed at Australia's new urban, educated middle class, providing mocking political commentary, offbeat cartoons, iconoclastic film, book, music and theatre reviews, and food, wine, chess, and even motoring columns. The paper's satirical tone matched the style of Australian university newspapers like ''

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'' and ''

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'', from which publications many of its contributors and editors had graduated. ''Nation Review'' editorial policy was egalitarian and anti-establishment. The paper was pro-Labor, or at least, pro political change but, after the Federal Labor victory of 1972, "disillusionment set in", according to former editor Richard Walsh. It was sufficiently self referencing at times with changes to style and cost. At times derivative broadsheets and offshoot publications like George Munster's response to the new Medicare in ''Medibunk'' appeared. Its publication history was similar to another weekly newspaper ''

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''. ''Nation Review'' survived several mergers and name changes.

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* {{Citation , author=Walsh, Richard , title=Ferretabilia : life and times of Nation review , publication-date=1993 , publisher=University of Queensland Press , isbn=978-0-7022-2450-8 Weekly newspapers published in Australia Defunct newspapers published in Victoria (Australia) 1972 establishments in Australia 1981 disestablishments in Australia