The ''Cooktown Independent'' was a

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published in

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History

The ''Cooktown Independent'' was first published in Cooktown on 6 June 1884 by James Fowler for Cooktown Independent Newspaper Company. In 1937, it became the ''Cooktown Independent and Northern Sun''. From November 1939 to 1947, it was published in Mossman under the title ''Northern Boomerang''. In November 1947, Brian Keighley Gerardy (also known as Brian Keighley-Gerardy) purchased the printing plant to relocate to

Murgon Murgon () is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Murgon had a population of 2,220 people. Geography Murgon is in the region of Queensland ...

to establish the '' Murgon Advertiser''.

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{{Reflist Defunct newspapers published in Queensland Cooktown, Queensland Mossman, Queensland

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