New South Wales

All branches of the library service receive the Sydney Morning Herald. Some branches also hold the Daily Telegraph, The Financial Review and The Australian. These are held for a period of time (three months at Max Webber). Max Webber and Mt Druitt branches also receive copies of The Koori Mail.

Microfilm copies of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian from 1970 onwards are held in the Reference section, Max Webber Library.

Access to online databases of Fairfax Australia, Fairfax New Zealand, News Ltd, ABC and some local and regional sources is also available through the library's website: Australia & New Zealand NewsStand .

The National Library of Australia, in co-operation with all state libraries in Australia, is digitising various newspapers. For a list of all newspapers available, click here http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/titles To search for a specific article or keyword, use this link: http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper?q=

The titles published in New South Wales that are available appear below. The dates indicate what is available online.

Australasian Chronicle (1839-1843)

The Australian (1824-1848)

The Australian Abo Call (1938)

Braidwood Independent (1867)

The Colonist (1835-1840)

Liverpool Herald (1897-1907)

The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser (1843-1893)

The Monitor (1826-1828)

Morning Chronicle (1843-1846)

Queanbeyan Age (1867-1904)

Queanbeyan Age (1904 -1907)

Queanbeyan Age (1907 - 1915)

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser (1864- 1867)

Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer (1915-1927)

Queanbeyan-Canberra Advocate (1905-1927)

The Sun-Herald (1953-1954)

The Sunday Herald (1949-1953)

Sydney Chronicle (1846-1848)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (1803-1842)

The Sydney Herald (1831-1842)

The Sydney Monitor (1828-1838)

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser (1838-1841)

The Sydney Morning Herald (1842-1954)

Note: The Sydney Gazette was the first newspaper in Australia. Governor King authorised the publication of what was initially called 'The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser' in 1803!

Local Newspapers

Blacktown Advocate- Now available online