Australian
Newspapers Beta 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.
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 IndexesNews
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.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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