Newspapers By Area

North Queensland Newspapers

Index by Place of Publication

See also JCU's holdings for NQ Newspapers

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Airlie Beach

Airlie times and island news

1983

 

Whitsunday times

1983 +

Aramac

Aramac mail

1879-1882

 

Mitchell and Gregory mail

1881-1885

 

Winton herald and Western Queensland grazier

1885-1952

Atherton

Atherton news and Barron Valley advocate

1905-1931

 

Atherton tableland times

1980-1981

 

Atherton times

1977-1980

 

Barron Valley advocate

1904-1908

 

Chronicle

1878-1902

 

Tableland Australian

1952

 

Tableland examiner

1931-1942

 

Tablelander (1)

1942-1952

 

Tablelander (2)

1983 +

 

Tablelander focus

1981-1983

 

Tablelands advertiser

1961 -

 

Tabletops

1943-1946

Ayr

Advocate (1)

1944+

 

Ayr chronicle

1897-1902

 

Delta advocate

1902-1944

 

Lower Burdekin agriculturist and Ayr chronicle

1897-1903

Bowen

Bowen advocate

1899-1900

 

Bowen chronicle

1914-1920

 

Bowen independent

1903 +

 

Bowen mirror

1896-1899

 

Bowen observer

1882-1892

 

Bowen record

1902

 

Port Denison times and Bowen advocate

1900-1910

 

Port Denison times and Kennedy District advertiser

1864-1900

 

Weekend independent

 

Brisbane

Weekly herald and Queensland pastoral and agricultural advertiser

1864-1868

Bucasia

Northern beaches

1983-1984

Cairns

Cairns advertiser and Smithfield observer

1877-1881

 

Cairns advocate

1897-1900

 

Cairns argus

1889-1900

 

Cairns chronicle

1880-1881, 1885-1889

 

Cairns daily argus

1900-1920

 

Cairns daily times

1882, 1899-1900, 1919-1937

 

Cairns focus

1979-1984

 

Cairns life.

1966 +

 

Cairns morning post

1907-1909

 

Cairns post (1)

1884-1893

 

Cairns post (2)

1909 +

 

Cairns telegraph

1882-1883

 

Cairns times (1)

1885-1890

 

Cairns times (2)

1919 or 1920

 

Cairnsweek

[1976?]-

 

Cape times : serving the Gulf and Cape York Peninsula

1983-1985

 

Evening Australian

1948-1949

 

Far north focus

1975

 

Focus news

1979-1984

 

Morning post

1895-1907

 

North Queensland chronicle

1890

 

Northern herald

1913-1935

Cairns

Northerner

1966 - 1983

 

Smithfield advertiser

 
 

Telegraph

1882

 

Trinity times

1901-1919

Charters Towers

Advocate (2)

1912-1922

 

Australian republican and journal of the trades unions of north Queensland

1890-1891

 

Charters Towers and north Queensland mining journal

1884

 

Charters Towers daily herald and mining record

1886-1894

 

Charters Towers mining record and commercial gazette

1888-1889

 

Charters Towers mining standard

1899-1904

 

Charters Towers times

1888-1891

 

Eagle

1893-1899

 

Evening telegraph

1901-1921

 

New eagle

1904-1906

 

North Queensland figaro

1894-1900

 

North Queensland times (1)

1908-1920

 

Northern advocate and miners journal

1873-1877

 

Northern miner

1872 +

 

Towers herald and mining record

1880-1899

 

Towers herald and mining record

1877-1879

 

Tribune

1899

Chillagoe

Chillagoe standard

1900-1913

 

Miner

1902

 

Mount Garnet and Chillagoe Miner

1903-1906

 

Sporting news weekly

 

Clermont

Central free press

1876-1877

 

Clermont miner

1902-1903

 

Clermont telegram

1864-1981

 

Peak Downs advertiser

1877-1881

 

Peak Downs telegram (and advertiser)

1864-1943

 

Peak Downs telegram and Copperfield miner

 

Cloncurry

Cloncurry advocate

1889-1953

 

Cloncurry mining news

1907

 

Cloncurry news and Mt. Isa record

1920-1933

 

Mining news (1)

1908-1910

 

Pastoral and mining news

1922-1924

 

Western mail

1915-1918

Collinsvale

Collinsvale star

1930-1958

Cooktown

Cooktown courier

1874-1896

 

Cooktown herald, and Palmer River advertiser

1874-1885

 

Cooktown independent

1884-1940

 

Endeavour beacon and Cook district advertiser

1894-1911

 

Endeavour times and Cook district journal

1890-1891

 

Far north weekly

1986

 

New endeavour beacon

1906

 

Northern boomerang and Cooktown independent

1940-1947

Copperfield

Copperfield miner, and Peak Downs record

1873-1877

Croydon

Croydon express and mining record

1899

 

Croydon golden age

1888-1897

 

Croydon golden age and Normanton advertiser

1897-1898

 

Croydon independent and mining record

1898-1899

 

Croydon miner

1887-1888

 

Croydon mining news

1887-1929

 

Croydon mining record and Gulf advocate

1902-1907

Croydon

Express

1899

(continued)

Gulf news

1930-1932

 

Independent

1898

 

Mining news (2)

 

Georgetown

Etheridge courier and Gilbert and Cloncurry mining journal

1875-1877

 

Etheridge herald

 
 

Etheridge mining journal

1892-1893

 

Mundic miner and Etheridge gazette

1889-1917

 

Walsh and Tineroo miner

1905-1915

Geraldton

Geraldton advocate and Johnstone River guardian

1891-1896

 

Mirror

1896-1899

Gunpowder

Gunpowder gazette

1972-1973

Herberton

Advertiser (3)

1881-1895

 

Friend

1912-1923

 

Herberton advertiser and western observer

1881-1895

 

Herberton and western miner

1883-1884

 

Herberton times

1917-1918

 

Jenkins Wild River mining circular

1882

 

Wild River independent

1882

 

Wild River mining courier

1882

 

Wild River times (2)

1974-1979

 

Wild River times(1)

1883-1917

Home Hill

Home Hill observer

1923-1969

 

Observer

1969 -

Horn Island

Horn herald

1943 - 1944

Hughenden

Flinders chronicle

1931 -1940

 

Flinders crier

1983 +

 

Hughenden ensign

1883-1889

 

Hughenden observer (Richmond, Cloncurry and Winton advertiser)

1890-1913

Ingham

Herbert River express

1904-

 

Ingham planter

1885-1899

 

News

1902

 

Northern planter

1899-1909

 

Planter

 

Innisfail

Advocate (3)

1891-1899

 

Babinda Mulgrave herald

1979

 

Democrat (2)

1929-1930

 

Evening advocate

1906 - 1978

 

Free press

 
 

Geraldton chronicle

1891-1892

 

Geraldton courier

 
 

Geraldton independent

1899

 

Geraldton sentinel

1906-1907

 

Geraldton world

1900-1901

 

Innisfail advocate

1978 +

 

Innisfail chronicle

1975 - 1978

 

Innisfail democrat

1911

 

Johnstone River advocate and Innisfail news

1900 - 1941

 

Newsnorth

1981

 

North Queenslander

1957

 

Northern leader

?-1935

 

Northern sportsman

1927-1928

 

Sunday Australian

1939-1952

 

Weekend advocate

1978-1985

Mackay

Canegrower

1928-1932

 

Daily chronicle

1895-1905

 

Daily mercury

1906- 1979

 

Mackay banner

1888-1889

 

Mackay chronicle

1895-1905

 

Mackay daily mercury

1979 +

 

Mackay free press

1880-1882

 

Mackay life.

1996 -

 

Mackay mercury and South Kennedy advertiser

1866-1906

 

Mackay midweek

1987 +

 

Mackay sentinel

1929-1930

 

Mackay standard

1877-1919

 

Miners gazette

1979-1985

 

Miners midweek

1985 +

 

New pioneer

1911-1913 (?)

 

Pioneer

1905-1912

 

Pioneer news :free community newspaper

1984 +

 

Sarina local news

1999 - 2003

 

Sarina midweek

1985 -1986

 

Sarina times

1979-1985

 

Sugar times

1999+

 

Whitsunday truth

1969

Magnetic Island

Magnetic times.

1997 +

Mareeba

Focus tablelander

Nov 1981 - 1983

 

Herald

1874-1901

 

Mareeba express

1894-1898

 

Mareeba herald

1898

 

Mareeba sentinel

1915-1920

Maytown

Golden age :Edwardstown, & Palmer district mining journal

1876-1877

 

Palmer chronicle

1877-1891

Millaa Millaa

Millaa news

1946

Mossman

Mossman champion and Port Douglas mail

1904-1907

 

Mossman mail and Port Douglas and Daintree dispatch

1931

 

Port Douglas and Mossman gazette

1896-1899

Mount Isa

Australian message

1966-1967

 

Isa mine and your news

1980-1986

 

Isa news (1)

1970-1980

 

Isa news (2)

1995 +

 

Minews

1966-1970

 

Mount Isa mail

1953-1966

 

Mount Isa news

1965

 

Mount Isa standard

1948-1949

 

Mount Isa times

1932

 

Mount Isa weekly news

1940-1949

 

Mount Isan sanomat: Mt. Isa news

1965-1966

 

Northern daily star

1979 +

 

North-west star

1966-1993

 

Ristin sanoma: Message of the cross

1962-1969

Mount Morgan

Mount Morgan argus

1900-1920

 

Mount Morgan chronicle and mining gazette

1886-1920

 

Mount Morgan herald

1887

 

Mountain echo

1947- 1951 (?)

 

Truth

1896-1899

Normanton

Carpentaria times

1883-1890

 

Norman chronicle

1885-1917

 

Normanton herald and Gulf of Carpentaria advertiser

1883-1884

Normanton

Gulf chronicle

1999-2000

 

Norman chronicle

1885-1887

   

Palm Island

Palm Island news

1948-1966

 

Palm Island newsletter

1975-1977

 

Palm Islander

1976-1979

Port Douglas

Douglas times

1988-1995 (?)

 

Douglas times and Douglas Shire visitors guide

1986-1988

 

Port Douglas and Mossman record

1901-1913

 

Port Douglas chronicle

1881-1889

 

Port Douglas gazette

1874-1880

 

Port Douglas times (1)

1878

 

Port Douglas times (2)

1990s

 

Times

1878-1893

Proserpine

Proserpine guardian

1904-1955

Ravenswood

Argus

1878-1880

 

Mining journal

1887

 

Ravenswood miner

1870-1874

 

Ravenswood mining journal

1879-1910

 

Ravenswood times and mining record

1875-1877

Thornborough

Hodgkinson miner, Tate, Etheridge and Herberton Observer

1882

 

Hodgkinson mining news and General advertiser for the northern gold fields

1877-1879

Thursday Island

Daily pilot

 
 

Torres news

1969 +

 

Torres Strait pearler

1905-1909

 

Torres Straits pilot and New Guinea gazette

1887-1914

 

Torres Straits pilot

1914-1942

Townsville

Advertiser (1)

1903

 

Advertiser (2)

1994-1996

 

Banner

 
 

Castletown times

1865

 

Clarion

1937-1940

 

Cleveland Bay express

1867-1876

 

Cleveland Bay express and Cardwell advertiser

1867

 

Cleveland Bay express and northern advertiser

1866-1870 (?)

 

Cleveland Bay herald (and northern pioneer)

1866

 

Cleveland Bay times

1962-1963

 

Cockatoo and north Queensland Figaro

1883

 

Daily northern standard

 
 

Democrat (1)

1895-1897

 

Evening star

1889

 

Express

1996 +

 

Federal weekly

1901-1921

 

North Queensland bulletin

1887- 1910

 

North Queensland country

1984

 

North Queensland guardian

1937-1943

 

North Queensland herald

1891-1911

 

North Queensland illustrated weekly herald

1898

 

North Queensland register

1892 +

 

North Queensland sentinel

1887-1892

 

North Queensland separationist

1887 (3 weeks only)

 

North Queensland telegraph and territorial separationist

1885-1889

 

North Queensland times (2)

1985

 

Northern age

1896-1897

Townsville

Northern age and North Queensland telegraph

1889-1891

(continued)

Northern echo

1886

 

Northern labour news

1908-1923

 

Northern mining register

1891-1892

 

Northern standard

1878-1879

 

Northern world

1885-1886

 

Sports north

1979

 

Spout : Townsville's community paper

1975-1976

 

Sun

1997 +

 

Thuringowa sun

1996-1997

 

Townsville & district weekly express

1975

 

Townsville advertiser

1976 -1986

 

Townsville and district times

1972-1973

 

Townsville argus

1877

 

Townsville bulletin

1984 +

 

Townsville city heart express

1992-1996

 

Townsville daily bulletin

1883-1984

 

Townsville evening star

1889-1940

 

Townsville herald

1876-1891

 

Townsville sun

1996-1997

 

Townsville times and North Queensland advertiser

1875-1876

 

Townsville weekly express

1975

 

Twin cities advertiser

1986-1994

Tully

Tully times

1963+

Weipa

Alumina

1966

 

Bauxite bulletin : Weipa's community paper

1966- 1994

 

Weipa bulletin

1994 +

Winton

Gregory news

1898-1903

Yarrabah

Aboriginal news

1912-1923

 

Yarrabah news