List of defunct newspapers of Australia explained

This is a list of defunct newspapers of Australia. For current Australian newspapers, see List of newspapers in Australia.

National

• Business Review Weekly (1981–2013)
• The Bulletin (1880–2008)
• Nation (1958-1972)
• Nation Review (1972–1981)
• The National Times (later The Times on Sunday) (1971–1987)^[1]
• Trading Post (until 2009) - 22 regional editions across Australia

New South Wales

For defunct newspapers in New South Wales, refer to List of newspapers in New South Wales.

Victoria

Defunct Melbourne newspapers

• The Argus (1846–1957)
• The Australasian (became the Australasian Post in 1946, 1838–2002)
• Australasian Sketcher with Pen and Pencil (1873–1889)
• Box Hill Reporter (1889–1918)
• Brighton Southern Cross
• Broadford Courier
• Broadmeadows Camp Sentry
• Brunswick and Coburg Leader
• Brunswick and Coburg Star
• Camberwell and Hawthorn Advertiser
• Caufield and Elsternwick Leader
• Coburg Leader
• Collingwood Fitzroy Mercury
• Daily Telegraph (1869–1892)
• Dandenong Advertiser
• Elsternwick Leader
• Eltham and Whittlesea Shires Advertiser
• Essendon Gazette
• Evelyn Observer
• Fitzroy City Press
• Flemington Spectator
• The Footscray Advertiser (1874–1982)
• Footscray Chronicle
• Frankston Standard
• The Graphic of Australia
• Hawthorn Citizen
• Healesville and Yarra Glen Guardian
• Heidelberg News
• The Herald (1840–1990)
• The Sunday Times
• Hurstbridge Advertiser
• The Illustrated Australian News
• Independent
• Labor Call
• The Leader
• Lilydale Express
• Malvern Courier and Caulfield Mirror
• Malvern News
• Malvern Standard
• Marlborough & Dunolly Advertiser
• Melbourne Advertiser (1 January 1838 – 1851)
• The Melbourne Express (5 February 2001 – 10 September 2001)
• Melbourne Punch
• Melbourne Star (1934)
• Melton Express
• Mercury (Fitzroy)
• Moorabbin News
• Mornington Standard
• mX (free afternoon commuter newspaper)
• Newsday (30 September 1969 – 3 May 1970)
• North Melbourne Advertiser (1873–1894)
• North Melbourne Courier and West Melbourne Advertiser (1895–1913)
• North Melbourne Gazette (1894–1901)
• Oakleigh and Caulfield Times
• Oakleigh Standard
• The Paper (Melbourne)
• Prahran Chronicle
• Prahran Telegraph (1860–1930)
• Port Melbourne Standard
• Port Phillip Gazette (1838–1851)
• Public Opinion
• Record (Melbourne paper)
• Richmond Australian
• Richmond Guardian
• Ringwood and Croydon Chronicle
• Sandringham News
• Sandringham Southern Cross
• Sealake Times
• Seaside News
• Smith's Weekly
• South Bourke and Mornington Journal
• South Bourke Standard
• Spectator Methodist Chronicle
• Sporting Judge
• The Sun (1922–1924)
• The Sun News-Pictorial (1922–1990)
• Sunbury News
• The Sunday Herald
• The Sunday Sun
• Sunshine Advocate
• Table Talk (1885–1939)
• Talbot Leader
• Terang Express
• Trading Post (1966-2009)
• Trafalgar and Yarragon Times
• Traralgon Record
• Truth
• Vigilante
• Weekly News (Yarraville)
• Weekly Times (Melbourne)
• Williamstown Advertiser
• Williamstown Chronicle
• Winner (1914–1917)

Defunct regional newspapers

• Alpine Observer
• Ararat Chronicle and Willaura and Lake Bolac Districts Recorder
• Avoca Free Press
• Avoca Mail
• Bacchus Marsh Express
• Ballan Times
• Bealiba Times
• Benalla Independent
• Bendigonian
• Berringa Herald
• Beulah Record and Mallee Advocate
• Beulah Standard
• Birchip Advertiser
• Birrengurra Times
• Boort Standard
• Bruthen and Tambo Times
• Bunyip Free Press and Berwick Shire Guardian
• Camperdown Herald
• Casteron Free Press
• Casteron News
• Castlemaine Advertiser (1858-1862)
• Castlemaine Leader (1883-1915)
• Castlemaine Representative (1870-1883)
• Chiltern and Howlong Times
• Clunes Guardian and Gazette
• Cobden Times
• Colac Reformer
• Coleraine Albion and Western Advertiser
• Cressy and Lismore Pioneer
• Creswick Advertiser
• Dimboola Chronicle (1921-29)^[2]
• Donald Times
• Dookie and Katamatite
• Dunmunkle Standard
• Dunolly and Betbet Shire Express
• Echuca and Moama Advertiser
• Elsternwick Leader (1887–1902)
• Euroa Advertiser
• Evelyn Observer (1873–1942)
• Federal Standard
• Foster Mirror and South Gippsland Shire Advocate
• Toora and Welshpool Ensign
• Gippsland Farmers Journal
• Gippsland Guardian (1855–1868)
• Gippsland Independent
• Gippsland Mercury
• Gippsland Standard
• Gippslander and Mirboo Times
• Gisborne Gazette
• Glengary, Toongabbie & Cowwarr Journal and Central Gippsland Reporter
• Gordon, Ergerton and Ballan Advertiser
• Great Southern Advocate
• Great Southern Star
• Grenville Advocate
• Grenville Standard
• Heyfield Herald
• Heytesbury Reformer
• Hopetoun Courier and Mallee Pioneer
• Horsham Times
• Inglewood Advertiser
• Jamieson and Wood's Point Chronicle
• Kerang New Times
• Kerang Observer
• Kerang Times
• Kerang Times and Swan Hill Gazette (1877–1889)
• Kilmore Advertiser
• Kilmore Free Press
• Kooweerup Sun, Lang Lang Guardian and Cranbourne Shire Record
• Korong Vale Lance
• Korot Sentinel and Tower Hill Advocate
• Kyabram Free Press and Rodney and Deakin Shire Advocate
• Kyabram Guardian
• Kyabram Union (1886–1894)
• Kyneton Guardian
• Lancefield Mercury and West Bourke Agricultural Record
• Lang Lang Guardian
• Lilydale Express
• Lismore, Derrinallum and Cressy Advertiser
• Maffra Spectator
• Maldon News
• McIvor Times & Rodney Advertiser
• Melton Express
• Mildura Cultivator
• Mildura Independent star
• Mildura Telegraph
• Miner's Right and Castlemaine Advertiser (1856-1858)
• Minyup Guardian
• Mornington Standard (1911–1939)
• Morwell Advertiser (1876–1972)
• North Eastern Ensign
• Numurkah Standard
• Omeo Standard
• Our Daily News Castlemaine (1862-1869)
• Ouyen Mail
• Ouyen Mail West Express
• Ovens Constitution (1856–1871)
• Pakenham Gazette and Berwick Shire News
• Penshurst Free Press
• Pitfield Banner and Hollybush Times
• Port Fairy Gazette
• Port Fairy Times and Macarthur News
• Port Melbourne Standard
• Portland Guardian (1842–1964)
• Portland Observer
• Powlett Express
• Quambatook Times
• Queenscliff Sentinel
• Rainbow Argus
• Riverine Herald
• Rushworth Chronicle and Goulburn Advertiser (1886–1977)
• Sandringham Southern Cross
• Sentinel
• Seymour Express
• South Bourke and Mornington Journal
• South Gippsland Shire Echo
• St Arnaud Mercury
• Stawell News and Pleasant Creek Chronicle
• Stock and Land
• Stratford Sentinel and Briagolong Express
• Traralgon Record (1883–1932)
• Tungamah and Lake Rowan Express
• Upper Murray and Mitta Herald Chronicle
• Utima and Chillonga Star
• Violet Town Sentinel
• Walhalla Chronicle
• Warracknambeal Herald
• Warragul Guardian
• Warrnambool Standard
• Wedderburn Express
• Werribee Shire Banner
• West Gippsland Gazette
• West Wimmera Mail and Natimuk Advertiser
• Willaura Farmer
• Wodonga and Towong Sentinel (1885–1954)
• Woodend Star
• Woomeland Sun and Lascelles and Ouyen
• Yackandandah Times (1890–1934)
• Yarrawonga Mercury and Southern Riverina Advertiser
• Yr Australydd

Queensland

Defunct Brisbane newspapers

• The Catholic Age (1892–1929)
• Daily Mail (1903–1933)
• mX (2001–2015)
• The National Leader (1916–1918)
• Queensland Country Life (1900–1910)
• The Queenslander (1866–1939)
• The Telegraph (1872–1988)
• Truth (1900–1954)

Defunct regional newspapers

• Bayside Bulletin
• Blackwater Herald
• Bundaberg star and Burnett River times (1875–1879)
• Cairns Argus
• Central Telegraph
• The Central Queensland Herald
• The Charleville Times
• Cooktown Independent
• Coolangatta Chronicle
• Dayboro Times and Moreton Mail
• The Humpybong Weekly and Advertiser
• The Logan and Albert Advocate
• The Logan Witness
• Murgon Advertiser
• North Queensland Telegraph and Territorial Separationist
• Northern Age and North Queensland Telegraph
• Northern Boomerang
• Queensland Telegraph
• St George Standard and Balonne Advertiser

Western Australia

Defunct Perth newspapers

• The Call (1904–1953)
• Daily News (1840–1990)
• Fremantle Herald (1913–1919)
• The Herald (1867–1886)
• The Independent (1969–1986)
• The Mirror (1921–1956)
• Perth Morning Herald (1896–1909)
• Truth (1903–1931)
• The Western Mail (1885–1955), renamed Countryman
• The Western Mail (1980–1988)

Defunct regional newspapers

South Australia

Defunct Adelaide newspapers

• About Town (December 1979–August 1981)
• Adelaide Aeroplane (November 1919–February 1920)
• Adelaide Echo (September–October 1877)
• Adelaide Guardian (September–October 1839)
• Adelaide Morning Chronicle (June 1852–November 1853)
• Adelaider Deutsche Zeitung (1851–1862), German-language paper
• Australische Zeitung (1874–1916) German-language newspaper
• Weekly Herald, Herald, and Daily Herald Labor weekly then daily
• Die Deutsche Post (1848–1850 or later), German-language paper, mentioned in Australische Zeitung
• Evening Journal (1869–1912), became The News
• The Express (Adelaide), 1864–1867
• The Express and Telegraph (1867–1922)
• The Independent Weekly (since 2010 online only as InDaily)
• The Journal (1912–1923), previously Evening Journal and continued as The News
• The News (1923–1992), continuation of The Journal
• Port Adelaide News (1878–1933), a weekly (and for a time bi-weekly) published which folded and restarted several times
• Quiz (1889–1890, 1900–1909), a satirical weekly; incorporated into Quiz and the Lantern (1890–1900)
• The Register, newspaper in Adelaide
• The South Australian (1844–1851), previously Southern Australian
• South Australian Chronicle (July 1858 – 1955) published weekly under various similar titles by The Advertiser
• South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register (1837–1931)
• South Australian Register
• Southern Australian (1838–1844) became The South Australian
• Süd Australische Zeitung (1849–1874) predecessor of Australische Zeitung
• Truth four different newspapers between 1890 and 1964, the last one part of the Norton stable
• The Voice (1892–1894) political weekly founded by J. Medway Day

Defunct regional newspapers

• The Bridge Observer (Murray Bridge) – a free community paper c. 1971–1976, revived briefly 1983
• Herald (Tanunda) (1860–c2020), previously known as Barossa and Light Herald
• The Kapunda Herald (1864–1951)
  • The Midlands Gazette - a section of The Kapunda Herald
  • The Northern Star - predecessor
• The Roxby Downs Sun (Roxby Downs) – discontinued August 2015
• Süd-Australische Zeitung - German-language newspaper variously from Tanunda and Adelaide
• Tanunda Deutsche Zeitung - German-language newspaper from Tanunda, founded by C. H. Barton
• The Warrigal Review (1901) - "a newspaper published by the South Australian Sixth Contingent, Imperial Bushmen, on board the steamship Warrigal on route to Durban during the South African War".^[3] Its single issue was printed by the Natal Mercury.^[4]

Tasmania

Defunct Hobart newspapers

• The Clipper (1893–1909)
• The Hobart Town Gazette (1816–1821)
• Saturday Evening Mercury (1954–1984)
• The World (1918–1925)
• The Critic (1904–1924 or later).

Defunct regional newspapers

• The Leven Lever
• The West Coast Miner
• The Daily Telegraph (Launceston)
• The Tasmanian (Launceston)

Northern Territory

• Army News (1941-1946) - for the troops stationed in Darwin
• Moonta Herald and Northern Territory Gazette (1869)
• The Darwin Sun (1981-1982) - a community newsletter^[5]
• The North Australian (1883–1889)
• The North Australian and Northern Territory Government Gazette (1889–1890)
• The Northern Standard (1921–1955)
• The Northern Territory Times (1927-1932)
• The Northern Territory Times and Gazette (1873–1927)

Australian Capital Territory

• The Chronicle (Canberra) (1981-2020)

Other newspapers (unsorted)

• The Arrow
• The Australian Children's Newspaper
• Yr Australydd
• Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer
• The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal
• The Chaser
• The Children's Newspaper (Australia)
• Colonial Times
• The Courier
• Daily News
• Empire Times
• The Farmer and Settler
• Filmnews
• Kiama Examiner
• The Labor News
• The Leader (NSW: 1946-1949)
• The Liverpool Herald (NSW: 1897–1907)
• Ovens Constitution
• The News
• The Sun News-Pictorial
• Telegraph
• Western Argus
• Western Mail
• The Wild Goose
• The Worker

References

1. Isaacs V., Kirkpatrick R.: Two hundred years of Sydney newspapers: A Short History at National Library of Australia pp 19, 26
2. Book: The Dimboola chronicle. 1921. J. and H. D'Arbon.
3. Web site: LibGuides: SA Newspapers: T-Z. Laube. Anthony. guides.slsa.sa.gov.au. en. 2018-08-24.
4. News: The Warrigal Review . 1901-07-05. Register (Adelaide, SA: 1901-1929). 2018-08-24. 4.
5. Book: The Darwin Sun: your family newspaper. 1981. Darwin, N.T. . Provincial Press. English.