''The Monitor'' was a biweekly English language newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales and founded in 1826. It is one of the earlier newspapers in the colony commencing publication twenty three years after the ''

Sydney Gazette ''The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser'' was the first newspaper printed in Australia, running from 5 March 1803 until 20 October 1842. It was a semi-official publication of the government of New South Wales, authorised by Governo ...

'', the first paper to appear in 1803, and more than seventy years before the

federation of Australia The Federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia (which also governed what is now the Northern Territory), and Wester ...

. ''The Monitor'' changed name several times, subsequently being known as ''The Sydney Monitor,'' and in June 1838 Francis O'Brien and Edwyn Henry Statham introduced themselves as the new editors of the re-branded ''Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser''.

History

The newspaper was first published on 19 May 1826 by

Edward Smith Hall Edward Smith Hall (28 March 1786 – 18 September 1860)M. J. B. Kenny,Hall, Edward Smith (1786–1860), ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Volume 1, MUP, 1966. Accessed 27 May 2012 was a political reformer, newspaper editor and banker in ...

and Arthur Hill.M. J. B. Kenny,
Hall, Edward Smith (1786–1860)
, ''

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'', Volume 1, MUP, 1966. Accessed 24 April 2013 The paper was not without controversy in the colony, publicly taking up the cause of the poor and convicts with a motto that "nothing extenuate nor set down aught in malice" and being openly critical of the governing authorities.

Name changes

Digitisation

The various versions of the paper have been digitised as part of the

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project hosted by the

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History

Name changes

Digitisation

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