Geelong Advertiser
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The Geelong Advertiser is a daily newspaper circulating in Geelong, Victoria, Australia, the Bellarine Peninsula, and surrounding areas. First published on 21 November 1840, the Geelong Advertiser is
Front page from 22 March 2024
Melbourne Advertiser
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The Melbourne Advertiser was the first newspaper published in Melbourne, in what was then known as Port Phillip District, and now is Victoria, Australia. It was published by John Pascoe Fawkner, a co-
Geelong Advertiser
…English company Tegg & Co. Moving to Melbourne in 1839, he found employment with John Pascoe Fawkner, as a compositor, and later editor, of Fawkner's Port Phillip Patriot. When Fawkner acquired a new press, Harrison offered him £30 for the original press, and started Geelong's first newspaper. The first edition of the…
Headquarters of the Port Phillip Patriot and Melbourne Advertiser next to Fawker's former hotel (c. 1846-1848) from State Library Victoria pictures collection.