''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
State may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Literature
* ''State Magazine'', a monthly magazine published by the U.S. Department of State
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) of
Queensland
)
, nickname = Sunshine State
, image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg
, map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia
, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, establishe ...
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 format. Its editorial offices are located at Bowen Hills, in Brisbane's inner northe ...
in 1866, and discontinued in 1939.
History
''The Queenslander'' was first published on 3 February 1866 in
Brisbane
Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of the South ...
by
Thomas Blacket Stephens
Thomas Blacket Stephens (5 January 1819 – 26 August 1877) was a wealthy Brisbane businessman and newspaper proprietor who also served as an alderman and mayor of Brisbane Municipal Council,Brisbane City Council Archives a Member of the Legis ...
. 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
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by the
National Library of Australia
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.
See also
*
Carl Feilberg
Carl Adolph Feilberg (21 August 1844 – 25 October 1887) was a Danish-born Australian journalist, newspaper editor, and general political commentator, who is today best known as an Australian indigenous human-rights activist.
Biography
Life
...
, who campaigned for Indigenous rights in the paper
*
List of newspapers in Australia
This is a list of newspapers in Australia. For other older newspapers, see list of defunct newspapers of Australia.
National
In 1950, the number of national daily newspapers in Australia was 54 and it increased to 65 in 1965.
Daily newspape ...
Footnotes
External links
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1939 disestablishments in Australia
Defunct newspapers published in Queensland
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Publications disestablished in 1939
Newspapers established in 1866