''The Queenslander'' was the weekly summary and literary edition of the ''
Brisbane Courier
''The Courier-Mail'' is an Australian newspaper published in Brisbane. Owned by News Corp Australia, it is published daily from Monday to Saturday in tabloid format. Its editorial offices are located at Bowen Hills, in Brisbane's inner norther ...
'', the leading journal in the colony (later
state
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**Sovereign state, a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country
**Nation state, a ...
) of
Queensland
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since the 1850s. ''The Queenslander'' was launched by the
Brisbane Newspaper Company
''The Courier-Mail'' is an Australian newspaper published in Brisbane. Owned by News Corp Australia, it is published daily from Monday to Saturday in Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid format. Its editorial offices are located at Bowen Hills, Q ...
in 1866, and discontinued in 1939.
History
''The Queenslander'' was first published on 3 February 1866 in
Brisbane
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by
Thomas Blacket Stephens. The last edition was printed on 22 February 1939.
In a country the size of Australia, a daily newspaper of some prominence could only reach the bush and outlying districts if it also published a weekly edition. Yet ''The Queenslander'', under the managing editorship of
Gresley Lukin—managing editor from November 1873 until December 1880—also came to find additional use as a literary magazine.
Angus Mackay, later a politician, was its first editor.
In September 1919, a series of aerial photographs of Brisbane and its surrounding suburbs were published under the title, ''Brisbane By Air''. The photographs were taken by the newspaper's photographer, Frederick William Thiel and were promoted as the first photographs taken of Brisbane from an aeroplane.
The paper has been digitised as part of the
Australian Newspapers Digitisation Project by the
National Library of Australia
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.
See also
*
Carl Feilberg, who campaigned for Indigenous rights in the paper
*
List of newspapers in Australia
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Top 10 newspapers by circulation
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Footnotes
External links
*
Discover The Queenslander
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