Australian Newspaper History: A Bibliography

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1 Australian Newspaper History: A Bibliography Compiled by Victor Isaacs, Rod Kirkpatrick and John Russell.

2 First published in 2004 by Australian Newspaper History Group 13 Sumac Street Middle Park Queensland 4074 Australian Newspaper History group This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be addressed to the publisher. A cataloguing record for this book is available from the National Library of Australia. Isaacs, Victor, 1949, and Kirkpatrick, Rod, 1943, and Russell, John, 1939 Australian Newspaper History: A Bibliography ISBN Printed in Australia by Snap Printing, Sumner Park, Queensland. 2

3 The compilers This bibliography is another product of the active minds belonging to key members of the Australian Newspaper History Group. The founder of the group, Victor Isaacs, was the inspiration for the bibliography. Isaacs, of Canberra, has interests in newspaper, political and railway history. Rod Kirkpatrick, of Brisbane, is a journalism educator, newspaper historian, former provincial daily newspaper editor and the author of histories of the provincial presses of Queensland and New South Wales. He has nearly completed writing a history of the national provincial daily press. He is the Program Director, Journalism, in the School of Journalism and Communication, University of Queensland, Brisbane. John Russell, of Canberra, has interests in the history of colonial printing and publishing especially newspapers and periodicals, the role of women, and labour in print. The compilers would be pleased to hear of additional entries and corrections. Please send to Victor Isaacs, to abvi@webone.com.au, or post to him at 43 Lowanna St, Braddon ACT Every issue of the Australian Newspaper History Group Newsletter from its establishment in October 1999 contains a cornucopia of articles, chronologies and reviews about Australian newspaper history and current developments. Only the longer articles are indexed here. The Australian Newspaper History Group Newsletter is available free to those on , or for $30 for hard copies (10 issues) by cheque payable to R. Kirkpatrick (ANHG). Write to the editor, Rod Kirkpatrick: address is r.kirkpatrick@uq.edu.au and postal address is 13 Sumac Street, Middle Park, Qld, Institutional subscriptions are $33. Abbreviations: ANHG Newsletter is the Australian Newspaper History Group Newsletter. PANPA Bulletin is published by the Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers Association. August

4 1. AUSTRALIA-WIDE Historical The media generally Nineteenth-century printers and publishers Newspaper directories and listings Journalists and Journalism Rupert Murdoch CAPITAL CITY NEWSPAPERS Sydney General histories Sydney Gazette Sydney Morning Herald and the Fairfaxes (family and Co.) Consolidated Press and the Packers Biographies in Australian Dictionary of Biography Memoirs Facsimiles Melbourne General Argus and Star Age Herald, Sun and Weekly Times Biographies in the Australian Dictionary of Biography Facsimiles Brisbane Perth Adelaide Canberra

5 2.7. Hobart Darwin NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS PROVINCIAL NEWSPAPERS Australia-Wide New South Wales Albury-Wodonga Newcastle Other New South Welsh towns, and general Victoria Ballarat Bendigo Geelong Other Victorian towns, and general Queensland Cairns Charters Towers Maryborough, Qld Rockhampton Toowoomba Townsville Warwick Other Queensland towns, and general

6 4.5. Western Australia Kalgoorlie Other Western Australian towns, and general South Australia Tasmania INDIGENOUS and ETHNIC PRESS INDUSTRIAL AUTHOR ALPHABETICAL INDEX

7 1. AUSTRALIA-WIDE 1.1. Historical. Beavan, G.R. (1993), A critique of newspaper history, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 17 (1): Bennett, Bruce, ed. (1981), Cross currents: Magazines and Newspapers in Australian Literature, Melbourne: Longman Cheshire. Bonwick, James (1890), Early Struggles of the Australian Press, London: Gordon and Gotch. A general introduction to the colonial press in Australia. Cannon, Judy (2004), The National Press Club: home of Australia s fourth estate, National Library of Australia News, June: Carroll, Vic (2003), The development of national newspapers in the second half of the twentieth century, in The Australian Press: A Bicentennial Retrospect, Australian Newspaper History Group. Corden, W.M. (1956), Towards a history of the Australian press, Meanjin, June. Cryle, Denis (1992), The Australian newspaper industry: inter-colonial perspectives, Australian Studies in Journalism, 1: Cryle, Denis, (1993), The popular press in colonial Australia: a culture industry perspective, Australian Studies in Journalism, 2: Cryle, Denis and others (1997), Disreputable Profession: Journalists and Journalism in Colonial Australia, Rockhampton, Queensland: Central Queensland University Press. Contains a variety of articles from around Australia. Cryle, Denis (1996), Culture and Commerce : Gordon and Gotch in Australia , History of the Book in Australia, 96. Cryle, Denis (1999). Corporations and Collectives: An overview of Australian newspaper companies , Australian Studies in Journalism, 8: Provides an Australia-wide overview of the processes of capitalisation and company formation that overtook the newspaper press from the second half of the 19th century. Davies, Glenn (1996), Looking backward - republican journalism in the 1880s and the 1890s, Australian Studies in Journalism, 5: Denholm, Michael (1979), Small Press Publishing in Australia: The early 1970s, Sydney: Second Back Row Press. 7

8 Dowling, Peter (1998), The Culture of Newspapers in Australia from the 1880s to the 1920s: The Slow Birth of the Modern Newspaper in Australia, History of the Book in Australia, 98. Farmer, Geoffrey (1986), The Literature of Australian Private Presses and Fine Printing, Studies in Australian Bibliography, no.26. Gibbney, H.G., comp. (1975), Labour in Print: A guide to the people who created a labour press in Australia between 1850 and 1939, Canberra: Australian National University. Green, H.M. (1961), A History of Australian Literature, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, Vols I and II. See Vol I, chs. 5, 8, 10, 13, 20; Vol II, chs. 15 and 21. These two volumes contain excellent summaries of and observations on the development of newspapers in Australia to the end of the 1950s. Green, H.M. (1930), An Outline of Australian Literature, Sydney: Whitcombe and Tombs. Greenop, F. (1947), History of Magazine Publishing in Australia, Sydney: K.G. Murray. Griffin, Grahame, An historical survey of Australian press photography, Australian Journal of Communication, no. 21 (1): Griffen-Foley, Bridget, Party Games: Australian Politicians and the Media from War to Dismissal, Text Publishing, 292pp. The influence of media proprietors on Australian politics from World II to the dismissal of Gough Whitlam is examined. Guyatt, B.J. (1970), The Publicists - The Labour Press 1880 to 1915, in Murphy, D.J., Joyce, R.B., Hughes, Colin A., [eds.]. Prelude to Power, The Rise of the Labour Party in Queensland , Milton, Hagan, J. (1965), An incident at the Dawn, Labour History, 8 (May): Harvey, Ross (1998), A Historical Dictionary of Australian Newspapers, History of the Book in Australia, 98. Harvey, Ross (1999), Newspaper Archives on Australia and New Zealand, Media History, 5 (1). Hergenham, Laurie, ed. (1988), The Penguin New Literary History of Australia, Penguin Books. History of the Book in Australia (1996), Conference papers and abstracts, Conference held at State Library of NSW, August Papers & abstracts available at <idun.itsc.adfa.edu.au/asec/hoba Papers 1996.htm> 8

9 History of the Book in Australia (1997), Conference papers and abstracts, Conference held at State Library of Victoria and RMIT, November Papers & abstracts available at <idun.itsc.adfa.edu.au/asec/hoba htm>. History of the Book in Australia (1998), Conference papers and abstracts, Conference held at the State Library of NSW, September Papers & abstracts available at <idun.itsc.adfa.edu.au/asec/hoba98.html>. Holden, W.S. (1961), Australia Goes to Press, Detroit: Wayne State University Press, also Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. An excellent overview of the Australian Press in the 1950s. Hughes, Colin A. and Western, J.S. (1973), The Geographical Sources of Foreign News in Australian Newspapers, Australian Outlook, 27 (1): Hughes, Colin A. (1974), The Geographical Sources of Domestic News in Australian Newspapers, Politics, IX (2): Isaacs, Victor (1999), Local Newspapers - Local Identities Conference, ANHG Newsletter, 1 (October). Isaacs, Victor (2000), Australian Newspaper Reproductions, ANHG Newsletter, 3 (January): 3. Isaacs, Victor and Kirkpatrick, Rod (2000, 2001), Front Page News, ANHG Newsletter, 3 (January): 3; 5 (April): 1; 13 (July): 11. Isaacs, Victor et al (2000), Indexes to Australian Newspapers, ANHG Newsletter, 4 (February): 4. Isaacs, Victor (2000), Newspaper Prices, ANHG Newsletter, 8 (August): 13. Isaacs, Victor, and Kirkpatrick, Rod, eds. (2003), The Australian Press: A Bicentennial Retrospect, Australian Newspaper History Group. Kirk, Pauline (1971), Colonial Literature for Colonial Readers, Australian Literary Studies, 5: Kirkpatrick, Rod (2001), Select chronology of Australian newspaper events , ANHG Newsletter, 11 (March): 21. Kirkpatrick, Rod (2001), Select chronology of Australian newspaper events , ANHG Newsletter, 12 (May): 18. Kirkpatrick, Rod (2001), Select chronology of Australian newspaper events , ANHG Newsletter, 13 (July): 19. Kirkpatrick, Rod (2001), Select chronology of Australian newspaper events , ANHG Newsletter, 14 (September): 20. 9

10 Kirkpatrick, Rod (2001), A select chronology of Australian newspaper events , ANHG Newsletter, 15 (November): 19. Kirkpatrick, Rod (2002), A select chronology of Australian newspaper events , ANHG Newsletter, 16 (February): 20. Kirkpatrick, Rod (2002), A select chronology of Australian newspaper events , ANHG Newsletter, 17 (April): 19. Kirkpatrick, Rod (2002), A select chronology of Australian newspaper events , ANHG Newsletter, 18 (July): 20. Kirkpatrick, Rod (2002), A select chronology of Australian newspaper events , ANHG Newsletter, 19 (September): 18. Kirkpatrick, Rod (2002), A select chronology of Australian newspaper events , ANHG Newsletter, 20 (December): 20. Kirkpatrick, Rod (2001), History unravels millennium debate, PANPA Bulletin, (February): Kirkpatrick, Rod (2002), Bicentenary of newspaper publishing in Australia, PANPA Bulletin (December): Kirkpatrick, Rod (2004), Hot Metal: Last Man Standing, ANHG Newsletter, 26 (February): 14. Kirkpatrick, Rod (2004), Media Columnists, ANHG Newsletter, 26 (February): 13. Kramer, Leonie and Mitchell, Adrian [eds.] (1985), The Oxford Anthology of Australian Literature, Oxford University Press. Laurie, Ross (2004), Reporting on Race, White Australia, Immigration and the Popular Press in the 1920s, Royal Historical Society of Queensland Journal, 18 (10), April Lindesay, Vane (1983), The Way We Were: Australian Popular Magazines , Oxford University Press. Livingston, Paul (2002), Broadsheets, ANHG Newsletter, 16 (February): 17. Lloyd, Clem (1999), British press traditions, colonial governors, and the struggle for a free press, in Curthoys, Ann, and Schultz, Julianne [eds.], Australian Print, Politics and Popular Culture, Brisbane, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, A good broadsweep introduction to the first 50 years of the press in Australia. Lloyd, Clem (2001), Reporting Caucus: The Press and Labor Crises, in Faulkner, John and Macintyre, Stuart [eds.], True Believers: The Story of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party, Allen & Unwin. Local Newspapers - Local Identities: Proceedings of the Newspaper History Conference, Chiltern, Victoria 1-3 October 1999, Bulletin of the 10

11 Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 23 (4); 24 (1). A rich collection of papers on a variety of topics. Mahood, Marguerite (1973), The Loaded Line: Australian political caricature Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. Mayer, Henry (1963), Bibliographical Notes on the Press in Australia and Related Subjects, Sydney: Dept of Government, University of Sydney. Mayer, Henry (1964), The Press in Australia, Melbourne: Lansdowne Press. An excellent overview of the Australian newspaper scene in the early 1960s. [See also Mayer s separately circulated typescript, Bibliographical notes on the press in Australia and related subjects, available in major public libraries]. Mayer, Henry and Pantzer, Sara (1975), Australia s Press: Control and Circulation , Sydney: University of Sydney. Miller, J., The Origin and Development of Photo-Lithography, Australasian Printer, II (3): 26-31; II (4): Miller, E.M. (1952), Pressman and Governors, Sydney. Morrison, Elizabeth (1980), Victorian Country Newspapers in 1888: William Hine s Rupanyup Spectator and James Ryan s Maffra Spectator, Australia 1888 Bulletin 4 (1980): Morrison, Elizabeth (1983), Newspapers and Novelists in Late Colonial Australia: Serial Fiction in the Age , MA Preliminary Discussion, Monash University. Morrison, Elizabeth (1988), Press Power and Popular Appeal: Serial Fiction and the Age, Media Information Australia, 49 (August): Morrison, Elizabeth (1989), Retrieving Colonial Literary Culture: The Case for an Index to Serial Fiction in Australian (or Australasian) Newspapers, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 13,1: Morrison, Elizabeth (1989), Government Regulation of the Newspaper Press in Nineteenth-Century Victoria Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 13,4: Morrison, Elizabeth (1991), The Archaeology of Australian Colonial Newspapers, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Serials Librarianship, 2, 2: Morrison, Elizabeth (1993), Australian colonial newspapers as literary publishers, Australian Studies in Journalism, (2): Morrison, Elizabeth (1993), The role of Victoria s colonial press in shaping political institutions, Australian Studies in Journalism, (2):

12 Morrison, Elizabeth (1994), A Rich Fund for Future Historians : Colonial Victorian Newspapers in the State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Library Journal, 13, 53, October: Morrison, Elizabeth (1995), Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers, in Jordan, D. and Patten, Robert L. [eds.], Literature in the Marketplace: Nineteenth Century British Publishing and the Circulation of Books, Cambridge University Press, Morrison, Elizabeth (1998), Newspapers, in Davison, Graeme, Hirst, John, and Macintyre, Stuart, eds., The Oxford Companion to Australian History, Melbourne: OUP: Morrison, Elizabeth (2003), A Fourth Estate Down Under: How Newspapers in the British Mould Dominated Colonial Australian Print Culture, Maintained Imperial Ties and Fostered National Consciousness, Épilogue: Canadian Bulletin for the History of Books, Libraries and Archives, 13 (2003): Mutch, T.D. (1942), Fifty Years of a Labor Journal, Worker, 5 (February). National Library of Australia (1989). The Hazel de Berg Recordings, Canberra: National Library of Australia. Annotated catalogue of Hazel de Berg s interviews with many Australians including authors, journalists, printers & publishers. Newspaper News 25th Anniversary (1953), Sydney, May. An interesting review of 1928 to Newspaper Newsletter ( ), published and edited in Melbourne by Antony Whitlock, for 40 issues, from 4 February 1972 to May Fortnightly for 24 issues until 8 December 1972, and then monthly for 16 issues from January Newton, Sarah (1993), Maxwell Newton: A Biography, Fremantle, Western Australia: Fremantle Arts Centre Press. A biography of an unusual person who was involved with an unusually large number of newspapers. Pares, Philip (2001), Photojournalism: Earliest Half-Tone - 6 Jan 1888, ANHG Newsletter, (15) (November): 16. Picker, Greg (1994), Understanding colonial ideologies: the use of newspaper evidence, Australian Studies in Journalism, (3): Review of Reviews Articles [about Australian newspapers in the early 1890s] (2003), ANHG Newsletter, 24 (October): 13. Russell, John (2002), Newspaper Music: A Fearless Press, ANHG Newsletter, 18 (July):

13 Sanz, Ken (2003), Newspaper production then: The production of newspapers in the nineteenth century, in The Australian Press: A Bicentennial Retrospect, Australian Newspaper History Group. Schedvin, C.B., ed. (1963), Checklist of Australian business histories and biographies of businessmen, Business Archives and History, 3 (1), February: Covers some newspapers and newspapermen and printers. Smith, Wendy (2000), Caring for Newspapers, ANHG Newsletter, 4 (February): 1. Starck, Nigel (2004), Writes of Passage: A comparative study of newspaper obituary practice in Australia, Britain and the United States, PhD thesis, Department of English, Flinders University, Adelaide. Taylor, Brian (1997), 200 Years of Printing in Australia, Biblionews, 22 (1): Toohill, David (1993), Our words are our bonds: a study of Labor newspapers, Australian Studies in Journalism, (2): Turner, H.E., ed.] (1926), The Imperial Press Conference in Australia 1925, London: Hodder & Stoughton. Some references to Australia among general discussion. Veale, Brigid (2004), The changing face of regional newspapers: a case study of the Advocate (Coffs Harbour), Master of Professional Communication thesis, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba. Examines the impact of corporate ownership on the news content of a regional newspaper, through a case study of the Advocate; includes a content analysis of the newspaper and interviews with editors and journalists. Ventress, Alan (1999), Newspaper Microfilming in the State Library of New South Wales and the National Plan for Australian Newspapers, ANHG Newsletter, 2 (November): 2. Waterford, Jack (2003), A choice of newspaper size and shape, Panorama in Canberra Times, 8 November. Broadsheet size compared with tabloid. Webby, Elizabeth (1981), Before the Bulletin: Nineteenth century Literary Journalism, in Bennett, Bruce, ed., Cross currents: Magazines and Newspapers in Australian Literature, Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, Webby, Elizabeth (1988), Writers, Printers Readers: The production of Australian literature before 1855, in Hegenham, Laurie, ed., The Penguin New Literary History of Australia, Penguin Books. 13

14 Webby, Elizabeth (2003), More than just the news: The literary content of early Australian newspapers, in The Australian Press: A Bicentennial Retrospect, Australian Newspaper History Group. Wilson, I.F.H. (1959), The Australian Press and Foreign Affairs, MA thesis, Melbourne: University of Melbourne. York, Barry (2003), Ethnic Presses, National Library of Australia News, November and December The media generally. Bowman, David (1988), The Captive Press, Penguin. An analysis of the concentration of press ownership in Australia. Bray, Sir Theodor (1965), A Newspaper s Role in Modern Society, University of Queensland Press. Brown, Allan (1992), Newspaper ownership and the Australian Print Media Inquiry, Current Affairs Bulletin, 69 (7), December, Chadwick, Paul (1989), Media Mates: Carving Up Australia s Media, Melbourne: Macmillan. Another analysis of ownership concentration. Coleman, Peter and Tanner, Les (1967), Cartoons of Australian History, Nelson. Cunningham, Stuart and Turner, Graeme (2002), The Media and Communications in Australia, Allen & Unwin. Curthoys, Ann and Schultz, Julianne (1999). Journalism: Print, Politics and Popular Culture, University of Queensland Press, 331 pages, $ Investigates the fascinating history of print journalism in Australia in all its aspects - the lives, working conditions and consciousness of journalists, and the newspapers and magazines they produced. Investigates the inventiveness of the journalists and the changing patterns of ownership and readership to which they adapted. Articles are: British press traditions, Colonial Governors and the struggle for a free press (Clem Lloyd) The provincial press (Rod Kirkpatrick) Black Wednesday (Victoria 1878) and the manufacture of public opinion (Elizabeth Morrison) Popular journalism (Denis Cryle) The radical press (Frank Bongiorno) The Bulletin from 1880 to Federation (Sylvia Lawson) Journalists, gender and workplace culture (Paula 14

15 Hamilton) The Home in the 1920s (John Docker) The shadow of the photographer (Kathryn Evans) Cadet training at Consolidated Press in the 1940s (Bridget Griffen- Foley) The investigative tradition in Australian journalism (David McKnight) Newspaper feature writing (Mathew Ricketson) Editors as intellectuals (Pat Buckridge) Polling, politics and the press (Stephen Mills) Journalism and technology since the Second World War (Rosslyn Reed) Business journalism in the 1980s (Jennifer Kitchener) The Australian journalist as historian (Prue Torney-Parlicki) The many paradoxes of independence (Julianne Schultz) Gordon, Harry (1976), An Eyewitness History of Australia, Adelaide: Rigby. Goot, Murray (1979), Newspaper Circulation in Australia , Melbourne: La Trobe University. House of Representatives (1992), News and Fair Facts: The Australian Print Media Industry: Report from the House of Representatives Select Committee on the Print Media, Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service. Inglis, K.S. (1962), The Daily Papers, in Coleman, Peter (ed), Australian Civilization, Melbourne, Littlemore, Stuart (1996), The Media and Me, ABC Books. Lloyd, Clem (1988), Parliament and the Press, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. Lumby, Catharine, van Niekerk, Mike and Kenworthy, Brett (2003), The future of newspapers, in The Australian Press: A Bicentennial Retrospect, Australian Newspaper History Group. Petersen, Neville (1993), News Not Views: The ABC, the Press and Politics , Sydney: Hale and Iremonger. Western, J.S. and Hughes, Colin A. (1983), The Mass Media in Australia, University of Queensland Press. Whitlock, Anthony, ed. (1970), Newspapers in the 70s: the proceedings of a seminar at Melbourne, Australia, November , Newspaper Newsletter. (about technical and printing aspects). Windschuttle, Keith (1985), The Media, Penguin Australia. 15

16 1.3. Nineteenth-century printers and publishers. Albinski, Nan Bowman (1997), Australian Literary Manuscripts in North American Libraries: A Guide. National Library of Australia and Australian Scholarly Editions Centre, Australian Defence Force Academy. Alison, Jennifer (1996), An Overview of Angus and Robertson as Publishers , History of the Book in Australia, 96. Anderson, Hugh (1996), Frank Wilmot as Printer and Publisher, History of the Book in Australia, 96. Australian Society of Archivists (1999), Directory of Archives in Australia, < B.J. (1881), Three Old Victorian Magazines, The Melbourne Review, 6 (January to October): Discusses Australia Felix Monthly Magazine, Illustrated Australian Magazine (Ham s Magazine), and The Australasian: a Quarterly Reprint of Articles selected from the Periodicals of the United Kingdom; with Original Contributions, chiefly on subjects of Colonial Interest. Bennett, Bruce, ed. (1981), Cross Currents: Magazines and Newspapers in Australian Literature, Melbourne: Longman Cheshire. Bennett, Bruce, Hay, John and Ashford, Susan [comps] (1981), Western Australian Literature: A Bibliography, Melbourne: Longman Cheshire. Bryans, Dennis (1988), Nineteenth-Century Australian Type Foundries, History of the Book in Australia, 98. Butler, Roger (1987), Some Notes on the Print Trade in Australia in the 19th Century, in Masterpieces of Australian Printmaking, Joseph Lebovic Gallery, 4-5. Includes bibliography and list of artists. Caban, Geoffrey (1983), Early processors, printers and publishers, in Caban, Geoffrey. A Fine Line: A History of Australian Commercial Art, Hale and Iremonger, Campbell, Ronald G. (1949), The First Ninety years: the Printing House of Massina, Melbourne, , Melbourne. Cheshire, Carol (1989), Foundations of Printmaking Within Australia , MA thesis, School of Humanities, Flinders University. Clark, Laurel (1998), The French Connection in 19th Century Australian Publishing: F.F. Baillière and his activities, History of the Book in Australia,

17 Clarke, Ann (1995), Advertising, Rising Circulation and Steam Printing: The Argus in the Early 1850s, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 19 (4): Collings, J. (1943), Thomas Ham, Pioneer Engraver, Publisher, etc., Melbourne. Craig, Clifford (1961), The Engravers of Van Diemen s Land, Tasmanian Historical Research Association. Includes chapter on Goodwin and the Cornwall Chronicle Series. Craig, Clifford (1984), More Old Tasmanian Prints, Launceston: Foot and Playsted. Includes chapters on Illustrated Newspapers Published in Melbourne and in Launceston, Illustrated Newspapers Published in Sydney and in New Zealand, and Illustrated Newspapers Published in England. Darragh, Thomas A. (1995), A Directory of Engravers and Lithographers in Victoria in the Nineteenth Century: A Description and Some Sources, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 19 (4): Darragh, Thomas A. (1997), Printer and Newspaper Registration in Victoria, , North Perth: Elibank Press, 464pp. Provides transcriptions of registration documents required under various acts for Port Phillip and Victoria from 1838 to Full names, addresses and professions of all personnel mentioned are given. Titles, proprietors of publications, firms, printers, publishers, places of printing, sureties, and witnesses to documents are fully indexed. A substantial introduction provides a history of the development of legislation in NSW to control printers and the publication of newspapers and its application in Victoria. Degotardi, John (1982), The Art of Printing in Its Various Branches: With Specimens and Illustrations, (1861), facsimile reprint, Sydney: Brandywine Press and Archive. Said to be the first Australian work on printing, the twenty-four-page booklet is in essence an ambitious prospectus for Degotardi s printing house and the services there available. It includes descriptions of the processes of photolithography, nature printing and electrotyping. Dowling, Edward (1901), Early Colonial Printers, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 1 (2): Eckersall, K.E. (1980), Young Caxton: a history of aims in printing education in Melbourne , Melbourne College of Printing and Graphic Arts. 17

18 Holroyd, John (1968), George Robertson of Melbourne, , Pioneer Bookseller and Publisher, Robertson and Mullins. Kerr, Joan, ed. (1984), Dictionary of Australian Artists. Working paper: painters, photographers and engravers, , Sydney: Power Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney. Kerr, Joan, ed. (1992), Dictionary of Australian Artists, Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870, Melbourne: Oxford University Press. Moignard, Michael (1981), The art of Engraving: Images of Ned Kelly and the Illustrated Press, Bowyang, (6): Morrison, Ian (1996), The Publishing Industry in Colonial Australia, a name index to John Alexander Ferguson s Bibliography of Australia , Melbourne: Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, Occasional Publication no. 6. Morrison, Ian, Perkins, Maureen and Caulfield, Tracey (2003), Australian Almanacs : A Bibliography, Hawthorn East: Quiddlers Press (PO Box 16 Hawthorn East, 3123). Early newspapers often published Almanacs. Neville, Richard (1989), Printmaking in Early Colonial New South Wales, MA thesis, Sydney University. Neville, Richard (1990), Printmaking in Sydney, , Australiana, 12 (3) August Newspaper directories and listings. Australasian Advertisers Manual and Newspaper Directory (1923), Sydney: Weston Co. Australasian Newspaper Directory, Melbourne: Gordon and Gotch, Melbourne, 1886, 1888 and Brown, Jerelynn (2003), National Plan for Australian Newspapers: New South Wales , in The Australian Press: A Bicentennial Retrospect, Australian Newspaper History Group. Borchardt, D.H. (1976), Australian Bibliography: A guide to printed sources of information, Sydney: Pergamon Press. Borchardt, D.H., ed. (1987), Australians: A guide to sources, Sydney: Fairfax, Syme and Weldon Associates. Borchardt, D.H. and Kirsop, W. [eds.] (1988), The Book in Australia: Essays Towards a Social and Cultural History, Australian Reference Publications. 18

19 Bradley, Anthony (1990), Handlist of Fine Arts Fourth Year Essays and Theses, , in the Power Research Library of Contemporary Art, Sydney: Power Institute of Fine Arts, Occasional Paper No.8. Darragh, Thomas A. (1997), Printer and Newspaper Registration in Victoria, , North Perth: Elibank Press, 464pp. Provides transcriptions of registration documents required under various acts for Port Phillip and Victoria from 1838 to Full names, addresses and professions of all personnel mentioned are given. Titles, proprietors of publications, firms, printers, publishers, places of printing, sureties, and witnesses to documents are fully indexed. A substantial introduction provides a history of the development of legislation in NSW to control printers and the publication of newspapers and its application in Victoria. Harvey, Ross (1999), Newspaper archives in Australia and New Zealand, Media History, 5 (1). Henty, Margaret and Jakimow, Rachel (1995), Indexes in Australian Libraries: A Toward Federation 2001 Survey, Canberra: National Library of Australia. Isaacs, Victor et al (2000), Indexes to Australian Newspapers, ANHG Newsletter, 4 (February): 4. Johnson-Woods, Toni (2001), Index to Serials in Australian Periodicals and Newspapers Nineteenth Century, Canberra: Mulini Press, Bibliographica Historica Australiae, no. 10. Johnston, Grahame (1970), Annals of Australian Literature: The Principal Publications of Each Year [ ] together with an Alphabetical Index of Authors and Their Works, Melbourne: Oxford University Press. Latrobe Library (1999), Australia and New Zealand Post Office Directories: Chronological List, Latrobe Library, State Library of Victoria. Available at < Latrobe Library (1999), Australia and New Zealand Post Office Directories: Geographical List, Latrobe Library, State Library of Victoria. Available at < Latrobe Library (1999), Australian trade catalogues: a select list, , Latrobe Library, State Library of Victoria. Available at < Latrobe Library (1999), Australian Women s Magazines: A select list, Latrobe Library, State Library of Victoria. Available at < 19

20 Latrobe Library (1999), Illustrated Newspapers held in the State Library of Victoria: A select list, Latrobe Library, State Library of Victoria. Available at < Latrobe Library (1999), Information Guides: Bibliographies, guides and information sheets, Latrobe Library, State Library of Victoria. Available at < Latrobe Library (1999), Nineteenth century Australian and New Zealand almanacs: an annotated guide to holdings, Latrobe Library, State Library of Victoria, Available at < Latrobe Library (1999), Sporting Newspapers: An annotated bibliography, Latrobe Library, State Library of Victoria. Available at < Margaret Gee s Media Guide, Melbourne: Crown Content. 3 issues per year. Moore and MacLeod (1882), Victorian Press Manual and Advertisers Handbook, containing an alphabetical list, with particulars of all newspapers published in the Colony of Victoria, Melbourne: Moore and MacLeod. Moore-Robinson, J. (1933), Chronological List of Tasmanian Newspapers from 1810 to 1933, Hobart: Monotone Art Printers. Morrison, Ian, Perkins, Maureen and Caulfield, Tracey (2003), Australian Almanacs : A Bibliography, Hawthorn East: Quiddlers Press (PO Box 16 Hawthorn East, 3123). Early newspapers often published Almanacs. National Library of Australia, Australian National Bibliography, Canberra: National Library of Australia. 4 volumes. National Library of Australia (2004), PANDORA Archive: Titles in the archive. Available at National Library of Australia (2004), Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts (RAAM). Available at National Library of Australia (1985), Newspapers in Australian Libraries: A Union List, Part 2: Australian Newspapers, Canberra: National Library of Australia, 4th edition. A useful guide, however, the best guides to the newspaper holdings in major public libraries now are the catalogues accessible through each library s website. NZ Bound (2000), Early New Zealand Newspapers. Available at www2.symet.net/whitehouse/nzbound. Includes some Australian titles. Pacific states newspaper directory, originally published San Francisco, 1892, Australian section reprinted by Riverina Archives. 20

21 Press Directory of Australia and New Zealand, Sydney: Country Press Ltd. Various editions 1914 to Pong, Alfred [comp.] (1985), Checklist of Nineteenth Century Australian Periodicals, Bundoora, Victoria: Borchardt Library, La Trobe University. Smyth, Arthur, ed. (1892), Wimble s Official Newspaper Directory of Australasia, Sydney: Wimble s Advertising Bureau. Stuart, Lurline (1979), Nineteenth Century Australian Periodicals: An annotated bibliography, Sydney: Hale and Iremonger. The Australian Press: early newspapers in New South Wales, a chronological list, Old Times, 1 (3): Wegner, Jurgen (2000), Australasian Advertisers Manual and Newspaper Directory, Australia and New Zealand, ANHG Newsletter, 10 (December): Journalists and Journalism. Angel, Don (1985), The History of the Journalists Club [Sydney], Sydney: Journalists Club. Bathurst, F.H. (1890), Reporters and their Work, Centennial Magazine, 2 (7): 501. Browne, Spencer (1927), A Journalist s Memories, Brisbane: Reed Press. Buckridge, Patrick (1994), The Scandalous Penton: A Biography of Brian Penton, University of Queensland Press. Burchett, Wilfred (1981), At the Barricades, Macmillan Australia. Burchett, Wilfred and Kiernan, Ben (1986), Reporting the Other Side of the World, Quartet Books. Cannon, Michael, ed. (1983), Vagabond Papers: John Stanley James, Melbourne: Hyland House. Clarke, Patricia (1988), Pen Portraits: Women Writers and Journalists in Nineteenth Century Australia, Sydney: Allen & Unwin. Cockerill, George (1943), Scribblers and Statesmen, Melbourne: printed by Roy Stevens. Coleman, Robert, ed. (1970), Reporting for Work: A Guide to Daily Journalism, Herald and Weekly Times. Clune, Frank (1941), Chinese Morrison, Melbourne: The Bread and Cheese Club. 21

22 Crowley, Frank, The Country Journalist. (1872), in Crowley, Frank, A Documentary History of Australia. Vol. 2, Colonial Australia: , 611. Cryle, Denis (1994), A disreputable elite? Journalists and journalism in colonial Australia, Australian Studies in Journalism, 3: Cryle, Denis (1995), Journalism and objectivity: a colonial viewpoint, Australian Studies in Journalism, 4: Cryle, Denis and others (1997), Disreputable Profession: Journalists and Journalism in Colonial Australia, Central Queensland University Press. Contains a variety of articles from around Australia. Curthoys, Ann, Schultz, Julianne and Hamilton, Paula (1993), A history of Australian journalism, 1890 to the present: report on a research project, Australian Studies in Journalism, 2: Dunstan, Keith (2001), Informed Sources: A History of the Melbourne Press Club , Melbourne Press Club. Edwards, Cecil (1972), The Editor Regrets, Melbourne: Hill of Content. Includes recollections of the Herald and the Star. Greenop, Frank S. (1965), The historical background of Australian journalism, Proceedings of the First Summer School of Professional Journalism, Australian Journalists Association, Hurst, John (1988), The Walkley Awards: Australia s Best Journalists in Action, Richmond, Victoria: John Kerr Pty Ltd. Isaacson, Peter (1990), Page 2, Peter Isaacson Publications. A collection of Isaacson s columns. Kirkpatrick, Rod (2004), Media Columnists, ANHG Newsletter, 26 (February): 13. Lloyd, Clem (1983), Profession: Journalist, Sydney: Hale and Iremonger. Macswan, Norman (1982), The Man who Read The East Wind: A Biography of Richard Hughes, Kenthurst: Kangaroo Press. McGuinness, Padraic (1990), Collected Thoughts, Schwartz and Wilkinson - Information Australia. Morrison, Elizabeth (1980), Victorian Country Newspapers in 1888: William Hine s Rupanyup Spectator and James Ryan s Maffra Spectator, Australia 1888 Bulletin 4 (1980): National Library of Australia (1989), The Hazel de Berg Recordings, Canberra: National Library of Australia. Annotated catalogue of Hazel de Berg s interviews with many Australians including authors, journalists, printers & publishers. 22

23 Parker, Derek (1990), The Courtesans: The Press Gallery in the Hawke Era, Allen & Unwin. Pearce, Sharyn (1998), Shameless Scribblers: Australian women s journalism , Central Queensland University Press. Perry, Roland (1988), The Exile Burchett: Reporter of Conflict, William Heinemann Australia. Sparrow, Geoff, ed. (1960), Crusade for Journalism: Official History of the Australian Journalists Association, Australian Journalists Association. Stewart, Ken (1988), Journalism and the World of the Writer: The production of Australian literature , in Hegenham, Laurie, ed., The Penguin New Literary History of Australia, Penguin Books. Style: A guide for journalists (2001), Sydney: News Limited. Tate, Audrey (1996), Fair Comment: The Life of Pat Jarrett , Melbourne University Press. Melbourne Sun s women s editor. Thompson, Peter, and Macklin, Robert (2004), The Man Who Died Twice: The life and adventures of Morrison of Peking, Allen & Unwin. Torney-Parlicki, Prue (2000), Somewhere in Asia: Journalism and Australia s Neighbours , University of NSW Press. Warner, Denis (1995), Wake Me If There s Trouble: Australian Correspondent at the Frontline - Asia at War and Peace , Penguin Books Australia. Warner, Denis (1997), Not always on Horseback: An Australian Correspondent at War and Peace in Asia , Allen & Unwin Rupert Murdoch. The number of biographies of Rupert Murdoch represents a small industry. (For biographies of Sir Keith Murdoch, see entry below) Browning, Julie, and Critchley, Laurie (2001), Dynasties, ABC Books. Chenoweth, Neil (2001), Virtual Murdoch, Secker and Warburg. Kiernan, Thomas (1989), Citizen Murdoch, Robert Hale. Leapman, Michael (1983), Barefaced cheek: the apotheosis of Rupert Murdoch, Hodder & Stoughton. (1985 US edition title: Arrogant Aussie: The Rupert Murdoch Story). 23

24 Munster, George (1984), Rupert Murdoch: a paper prince, Viking. Paperback edition with additional afterword by Glenda Korporaal, Penguin Books, Page, Bruce (2003), The Murdoch Archipelago, Simon and Schuster. Regan, Simon (1976), Rupert Murdoch: a business biography, Angus and Robertson. Shawcross, William (1992), Murdoch, Pan Books. Possibly the most comprehensive of the biographies. Tuccille, Jerome (1989), Murdoch: A Biography, Piatkis. 2. CAPITAL CITY NEWSPAPERS 2.1. Sydney General histories Butlin, N.G. (1947), Collective Bargaining in the Sydney Printing Industry, , Economic Record, 23. Daly, R.A. (1957), The Catholic Times ( ) and the Express ( ), Australasian Catholic Record, XXXIV (2): Cook, Peter (1969), The End of the World, Labour History, (16): Goodman, Charles W. (2001), Printer from the Manly Daily in 1924, ANHG Newsletter, 13 (July): 12. Isaacs, Victor (2000), The Newspaper Olympics, ANHG Newsletter, 9 (October): 1. Isaacs, Victor and Kirkpatrick, Rod (2003), Two Hundred Years of Sydney Newspapers: A Short History, Australian Newspaper History Group. A summary 1803 to Kirkpatrick, Rod (2002), Sydney Sun changes from Broadsheet to Tabloid, ANHG Newsletter, 17 (April): 12. Kirkpatrick, Rod (2003), Sydney of 1800s comes to life at Bicentenary Symposium, ANHG Newsletter, 22 (May): 1. NSW Legislative Assembly (1902), Committee of Inquiry into Newspaper Trains 1902, NSW Parliamentary Papers. Peterson, Bob (2002), Dead Bird Half Tones, ANHG Newsletter, 16 (February): 16. Proctor, S.K. (1971), Henry Dumaresq on the Sydney Press in 1827, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 57 (2):

25 Proctor, S.K. (1967), Aspects of the Sydney Press , MA thesis, Australian National University. The Evening News: A Record of Progress of a Great Australian Newspaper, Evening News, The Sun , Sun Newspapers Ltd, Walker, R.B. (1976), The Newspaper Press in New South Wales , Sydney University Press. Walker, R.B. (1980), Yesterday s News: A History of the Newspaper Press in New South Wales from 1920 to 1945, Sydney University Press. The two books by Walker provide an excellent and comprehensive coverage to Woodhouse, M. (1969), An Index to the Stockwhip, , with a life of John Edward Kelly, Sydney: Margaret Woodhouse Bookshop, History House, 8 Young St, Sydney Sydney Gazette. Histories of the Sydney Gazette, Australia s first newspaper and its competitors: Blair, Sandy (1997), The convict press : Edward Smith Hall and the Sydney Monitor, in Cryle, Denis, ed., Disreputable Profession: Journalists and Journalism in Colonial Australia, Rockhampton: Central Queensland University Press, Blair, Sandy (2003), The Sydney Gazette and its readers , in The Australian Press: A Bicentennial Retrospect, Australian Newspaper History Group. Connor, Michael, ed. (2003), Pig Bites Baby: Stories from Australia s First Newspaper, Duffy and Snellgrove. Articles extracted from the first few years. Enkos, Renėe (1961), The Sydney Gazette : Australia s First newspaper, Longmans. A brief history aimed at young readers. Ellis, M.H. (1953), The Australian press is born, The Bulletin, 21 January, 25. Ferguson, J.A. (1932), Edward Smith Hall and the Monitor, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 17 (2): Ferguson, J.A., Foster, J.E. and Green, H.M. (1936), The Howes and their Press, Sydney: Sunnybrook Press. 25

26 Foster, A.G. (1921), Odd Bits of Old Sydney, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, XXI (VII): Includes early sites of the Herald and the Gazette. Foster, A.G. (1924), George Howe and the Gazette Office, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 10 (2): George Howe and Early Printing in New South Wales, Wayzgoose, 1985, no.1, Kemp, Richard E. (1917), Commercial Life in Australia a Century Ago, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 4 (3): Includes George Howe. Mander Jones, Phyllis (1953), Australia s first newspaper, Meanjin, 12 (1), Autumn, Karskens, Grace (2003), The Sydney Gazette and early Sydney: Exploring the lived town, in The Australian Press: A Bicentennial Retrospect, Australian Newspaper History Group. Kirkpatrick, Rod (2002), Bicentenary of newspaper publishing in Australia, PANPA Bulletin, December. Robb, Gwenda (2003), George Howe: Australia s First Publisher, Kew, Victoria: Australian Scholarly Publishing Sydney Morning Herald and the Fairfaxes (family and Company). Bertie, Charles H. (1920), Old Pitt Street, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, VI (II): Includes detail of Sydney Morning Herald and its building. Brundson, Fletcher C. (1931), Centenary of the Sydney Morning Herald, Royal Australian Historical Society Journal, XVII (II). A Century of Journalism: The Sydney Morning Herald and its record of Australian Life , John Fairfax and Sons Ltd, A massive history of the Company and of Australian history as recorded in the SMH up to Centenary Supplement published in the Sydney Morning Herald, 18 April Carroll, V.J. (1991), The Man Who Couldn t Wait: Warwick Fairfax s folly and the bankers who backed him, William Heinemann Australia. Clune, Frank, (1960), Journey to Canberra: by road from Sydney, with deviations in search of history, geography and curios along the Canberra Highway, Angus & Robertson. Chapter 12 is a deviation discussing the Fairfax family and SMH. 26

27 Fairfax, Sir James (1919), Some Recollections of Old Sydney, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 5 (1): An interesting detailed article which covers buildings, people, businesses, including newspapers, their owners, their buildings, journalists etc Fairfax, James (1991), My Regards to Broadway, Angus and Robertson. A candid inside account. Fairfax, J.F. (1941), The Story of John Fairfax, John Fairfax and Sons Ltd. Fletcher, C. Brunsdon (1931), Centenary of the Sydney Morning Herald, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 17 (2): Foster, A.G. (1921), Odd Bits of Old Sydney, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, XXI (VII): Includes early sites of the Herald and the Gazette. In Memoriam. Obituary Notices and Funeral Services having reference to the late Hon. John Fairfax, Esq. MLC who died 16th June 1877, by members of the literary staff of the Sydney Morning Herald, J. Reading and Co. Printers and Foster and Fairfax, Kepert, L.V., ed. (1981), The Sydney Morning Herald: History as it happened: 150 years of news and pictures from our oldest newspaper, Nelson. Kirkpatrick, Rod (2003), Wanted: The Head of Hilmer on a Plate, ANHG Newsletter, 24 (October): 1. Kirkpatrick, Rod (2004), Granny George calls it a day [re SMH s Column 8], ANHG Newsletter, 26 (February): 5. Pelosi, Janette (2004), Engine Driver Dies in Press at SMH [1875], ANHG Newsletter, 26 (February): 12. Pringle, John Douglas (1973), Have Pen: Will Travel, Chatto & Windus. Ratcliff, Patricia Fitzgerald (2003), The Usefulness of John West: Dissent and Differences in the Australian Colonies, Launceston: Albernian Press. 592pp. A biography of John West, editorial writer of the Launceston Examiner from its foundation in 1842 until he became the first designated editor of the Sydney Morning Herald in Read, P.J. (1967), Conservatism and the Sydney Morning Herald : the editorship of Andrew Garran , Honours thesis, Australian National University. Ryan, Colleen and Burge, Glenn (1992), Corporate Cannibals: The Taking of Fairfax, Melbourne: Heinemann. Souter, Gavin (1981), Company of Heralds: A Century and a half of Australian publishing by John Fairfax Limited and its predecessors 27

28 , Melbourne University Press. A comprehensive and readable history. Souter, Gavin (1991), Heralds and Angels: The House of Fairfax , Melbourne University Press. Souter brings his earlier book update with the events of the 1980s. Sydney Morning Herald Pages, ANHG Newsletter, 24 (October): 12. Sykes, Trevor (1989), Operation Dynasty: How Warwick took John Fairfax Ltd., Greenhouse Publications Consolidated Press and the Packers. Books about Consolidated Press and the Packers provide detail about the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and the Australian Women s Weekly. Barry, Paul (1993), The rise and rise of Kerry Packer, Bantam and ABC Books. Buckridge, Patrick (1994), The Scandalous Penton: A Biography of Brian Penton, University of Queensland Press. Griffen-Foley, Bridget (1999), The House of Packer: The making of a media empire, Sydney: Allen & Unwin. A comprehensive history of the Packer media dynasty. Griffen-Foley, Bridget (2000), Sir Frank Packer: The Young Master, Sydney, HarperBusiness. Guillat, Richard (2003), Shadow over the son, Good Weekend magazine in Sydney Morning Herald and Age, 3 May: 20. About James Packer. O Brien, Denis (1982), The Weekly: A lively and nostalgic celebration of Australia through 50 years of its most popular magazine, Penguin Books. Sun Newspapers Ltd (1929), The Sun , Sun Newspapers Ltd. (The Daily Telegraph was then controlled by this company). Whittington, R.S. (1971), Sir Frank: the Frank Packer story, Cassell Australia Biographies in Australian Dictionary of Biography. Biographies of prominent Sydney newspaper people appear in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Melbourne University Press: John Fairfax (SMH), vol. 4 28

29 Sir James Reading Fairfax and Sir James Oswald Fairfax (SMH), vol. 8 John Fitzgerald Fairfax (SMH), vol.14 Mary Fairfax (SMH), vol 14 Andrew Garran (Sydney Morning Herald), vol. 4 George Howe and Robert Howe (Sydney Gazette and NSW Advertiser), vol. 1 Charles Kemp (SMH) vol. 2 John Dunmore Lang (Colonist), vol. 2 Robert Clyde Packer (Smith s Weekly, Guardian, Women s Weekly), vol. 11 Sir Frank Packer (Guardian, Women s Weekly, Telegraph), vol. 15 Sir Henry Parkes (Empire), vol. 5 Edward Theodore (Women s Weekly), vol. 12 John West (SMH), vol. 2. For a complete list of Newspaper Editors listed in Vols 1 to 12 of the ADB, see the Index to those volumes, pp , for Newspaper Proprietors, see pp , for Newspaper Employees, see p. 227, and for Journalists, see pp Memoirs. Memoirs of, or about, former Sydney journalists are: Baume, Eric (1942), I ve lived another year: a journalist s diary of the year 1941, George G. Harrap. Baume, Eric (1941), I Lived These Years, London: George G. Harrap. Blaikie, George (1966), Remember Smith s Weekly, Adelaide: Rigby. Brodsky, Isadore (1974), The Sydney Press Gang, Sydney: Old Sydney Free Press. Buttrose, Ita (2001), A Passionate Life: Ita Buttrose, Melbourne: Penguin. Cannon, Michael (1981), That Dammed Democrat: John Norton, an Australian Populist, Melbourne University Press. Cockerill, George (1943), Scribblers and Statesmen, Melbourne: printed by Roy Stevens. Diamond, Marion (1997), Edward Hawksley: a catholic and a radical [re the People s Advocate], in Cryle, Denis,, ed., Disreputable Profession: Journalists and Journalism in Colonial Australia, Rockhampton: Central Queensland University Press,