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Newspapers

 

What's Available

The following Australian newspapers are available:

  • The Age
  • Australian Financial Review
  • Gold Coast Bulletin
  • The West Australian
  • The Australian
  • Courier Mail
  • Sydney Morning Herald

They are kept on the mezzanine level of the Main Library and Level 2 in the Law Library for one week, and then for three months on Level 2 of the Main Library.

The Asian Wall Street Journal and the People's Daily are also kept on the mezzanine level in the Main Library

Search the library catalogue for the title of the newspaper. The catalogue contains information on how far back the papers are kept, where and in which format they are kept, and links to the website.

 

Australian newspapers

Find Australian newspaper articles using the databases below or from other sources on the Library Journal Database page.

Australian Public Affairs - Full Text or Austrom Select APAIS and APA Full Text
Factiva Search Australian and International newspapers.

 

Australian Newspapers on the Internet

The website http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/npapers.html lists and links to around 280 Australian newspapers on the Internet. Many web-based newspapers will only have quite recent articles for free, you may be asked to pay for earlier ones.

 

Overseas newspapers

Search the following Databases that are also available from our Electronic Resources pages for articles.

Factiva International coverage
ProQuest International coverage - limit your search to only newspapers

 

Overseas Newspapers on the Internet

NOTE: online newspapers may only present a summary of the news, and may be different from the actual published article.

Onlinenewspapers search for websites of newspapers world-wide
ABYZ Newslinks gateway to newspapers, news media, and news sources
Daypop search 6000 news sites and weblogs for current events and breaking news
News Index search for current news stories around the world
Yahoo News Full Coverage updated with links to new stories throughout each day. News is organized into categories, and each category has links to news stories, related web sites and more.

 

News Services

These news services provide current news. ABC News provides an email news service, sending an email twice daily to keep you informed of the major events of the day.