Online Publications: Newspapers in Australia

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Newspapers
National Library of Australia. Australian Newspapers Online. This site offers online access to Australian newspapers. Select newspapers by title, state, town.There is also a search facility for Australian journals online.

Australian Newspapers Beta New service offers access to historic Australian newspapers digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program. This free service currently contains 433,000+, out of copyright, newspaper pages from 1803-1954 with new digitised pages being added each week. Newspapers available include the Advertiser (Adelaide), Argus (Melbourne), Brisbane Courier, Canberra Times, Courier-Mail (Brisbane), Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter, Hobart Town Gazette and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser, Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser, Mercury (Hobart), Moreton Bay Courier, Northern Territory Times, Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal, South Australian Advertiser and Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser.

Victoria Government Gazette Online Archive 1836-1997. New This fully searchable site contains digitised images of the New South Wales Government Gazette (1836-1851), Port Phillip Government Gazette (1843-1851) and Victoria Government Gazette (1851-1997).

Onlinenewspapers.com. This site is searchable for online newspapers by geographic region.

World Newspapers. A searchable directory of online newspapers, magazines and news sites.

Newspaper Indexes
The Ryerson Index

is an index to death notices appearing in current Australian newspapers. It also includes some funeral notices, probate notices and obituaries. This ongoing project currently contains over two million entries from 145 newspapers including the Adelaide Advertiser (2001-), Brisbane Courier Mail (2000-), Canberra Times (2003-), Melbourne The Age (1998-), Melbourne Herald Sun (2004-), Sydney Morning Herald (1831-), Sydney Mail (1860-1889) and Sydney Daily Telegraph (1936-) plus numerous country newspapers (mostly NSW).

News Limited Click the Announcements tab for current birth, death, marriage and funeral notices from the The Australian, Herald Sun, Daily Telegraph, Courier-Mail, The Advertiser, The Mercury and others.

Fairfax Newspapers offers access to Notices (births, deaths, funerals, in memoriams, engagements and marriages) for one week. Includes the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age (Melbourne), Illawarra Mercury (Wollongong), the Newcastle Herald & Post and community newspapers (Sydney).

News Store offers searches of Fairfax publications including the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age (Melbourne), Illawarra Mercury (Wollongong) Central Coast Herald (Gosford/Wyong) and the Newcastle Herald from 1990 to today. It is free to search but a small charge applies to view the full text of an article.

Sydney Morning Herald Archives with access to digitised copies of the Herald and Sun-Herald 1955-1990. All articles, captions, classifieds and advertisements are keyword searchable. Results are returned as digital reproductions of the printed pages as originally published. It is free to search with various subscription options for full access to digitised copies of the full articles and page results.

National Library of Australia Online Index to the Argus (Melbourne) 1870-1879. The index can be browsed or keyword searched. This site does not provide online access to the full text of the paper.

OzLife is a selective index to articles about prominent Australians appearing in major Australian newspapers from September 2000 to July 2005.

Old News Copy offers indexes to random years of 55+ Victorian newspapers from 1840s onwards. A search returns name, year, area and publication. Copies of relevant pages are available for a small fee.

Infoquick is a selective index to the Sydney Morning Herald, Sun Herald, Good Weekend, Eastern Herald and Northern Herald from January 1988 to June 2005.

State Library of Victoria, Australiana Index offers online searches of biographical and local history references from newspapers, journals, books and in-house files.

Sydney Morning Herald In Memoriam Indexes by Ken Campbell are searchable by surname.

Toowoomba Dead Persons Society. Click on Newspaper Indexing for indexes to The Chronicle (Toowoomba), Cairns Post, The Gatton Star, Daily News (Warwick) and Queensland Times (Ipswich).

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Online Publications: Newspapers in Australia