The Australasian Chronicle
The Australasian Chronicle was a twice-weekly
Catholic newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was published in a broadsheet
format. It was also published as The Morning Chronicle, The Chronicle and The Sydney Chronicle. It was the first Catholic newspaper published in Australia.
History
First published on 2 August 1839, The Australasian Chronicle was published by Andrew Bent, for
The Freeman's Journal which commenced publication on 27 June 1850.[4]
Duncan was followed as editor by the Rev. John McEncroe and after him came McEncroe’s nephew Michael D’Arcy.[5] Trove lists the Edward John Hawksley as the editor in 1848, just prior to him starting his own newspaper, The People’s Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator.[6]
The publication defended Governor Gipps against attacks from the squatters and denounced the ill-treatment of Aborigines.[7]
Digitisation
The paper has been digitised as part of the
Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program, a project of the National Library of Australia in cooperation with the State Library of New South Wales.[8][9][10]
See also
References
- ^ Barton, George Burnett (1866). Literature in New South Wales. Government Printer. p. 33.
- ^ "The Journey of the Catholic Church in Australia". Catholic Enquiry Centre. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
- ^ J.M. O'Brien, W. A. Duncan, the Irish question, and the NSW elections of 1843, Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society, 4 (1) (1972), 40-57; B.J. McGrath, Catholic journalism in New South Wales to 1850, Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society 1 (3) (1964), 27-32; C. Fowler, Anti-Catholic polemic at the origins of Australia's first Catholic newspaper, Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society 37 (2) (2016), 147-160.
- ^ "The Catholic Weekly - Sydney". Archived from the original on 7 February 2005. Retrieved 25 June 2013. Catholic Weekly/About Us
- ISBN 0424000237
- ^ "The Sydney Chronicle". Trove. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ "The Aborigines". Australasian Chronicle. 4 December 1840. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
- ^ "Newspaper and magazine titles". Trove. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
- ^ "Newspaper Digitisation Program". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
- ^ Brown, Jerelynn (2011). "Tabloids in the State Library of NSW collection: A reflection of life in Australia". Australian Journal of Communication. 38 (2): 107–121.
External links
- Australasian Chronicle (Sydney, NSW : 1839 - 1843) at Trove
- Morning Chronicle (Sydney, NSW : 1843 - 1846) at Trove
- Sydney Chronicle (NSW : 1846 - 1848) at Trove
- The Catholic Weekly
- Isaacs, Victor, Kirkpatrick, Rod and Russell, John (2004). Australian Newspaper History: A Bibliography
- Isaacs, Victor; Kirkpatrick, Rod, Two hundred years of Sydney newspapers: A short history, Rural Press Ltd.