Community Newspapers

News Corp have announced changes to their regional and community newspapers across the country, including the Leader group.  Looking at our region, the Whittlesea Leader will no longer be printed and will be digital only moving forward.

Update 1/6/20. An article via the ABC confirms that the Heidelberg Leader and Diamond Valley Leader have ceased production. Heidelberg Historical Society were quoted in this article on 29/5 Scrapped newspapers were communities heart and soul say historians

These links will take you to digitial issues accessible for the time being for the last six months.

Diamond Valley Leader 9 October 2019 - 8 April 2020

Heidelberg Leader 8 October 2019 - 7 April 2020

Whittlesea Leader 15 October 2019 - 7 April 2020

Other local newspapers include:

The North Central Review  which is still being printed weekly, with digital editions available on their website and featured articles with focus on the City of Whittlesea, including Whitltesea township.

The Whittlesea Town Crier is published monthly and includes a digital edition on their website.  

Warrandyte diary is also published monthly and includes news from the Shire of Nillumbik. It includes feature articles on its website and a digitial edition.    

What are your sources for local news?

Image: YPRL Annual Report unknown date

Liz Pidgeon , Local and Family History Librarian, YPRL

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This post first appeared on the YPRL website on 28 May, 2020

Historical newpapers on Trove

Trove has added two more local historical newspapers to its Victorian newspapers collection now totaling 139 papers.

The Heidelberg News and Greensborough and Diamond Creek Chronicle 1914 - 1916 and
Heidelberg News and Greensborough Eltham and Diamond Creek Chronicle 1916- 1918
are the new additions.  Along with other local papers: 

1. Advertiser (Hurstbridge, Vic. : 1922-1939)
2. Eltham and Whittlesea Shires Advertiser and Diamond Creek Valley Advocate (Vic.: 1902-1917)
3.  Evelyn Observer, and South and East Bourke Record (Vic.: 1882-1902)

and The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.: 1848-1954)
 

Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program

The National Library of Australia is pleased to announce the newspapers that are scheduled to be digitised through the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program over the coming year:

Through Trove, the national resource discovery service, there is free online access to over 5 million pages from over 130Australian newspapers. All of the digitised newspapers are fully text-searchable and users can enrich and enhance the data through subject tagging, text correction and annotations.

Titles have been selected by the National Library in consultation with the state and territory libraries. A number of the titles are being digitised with the generous support and funding from a range of organisations. For those libraries and organisations wishing to digitise a specific newspaper title, Contributor Guidelines and a Factsheet provide additional information. If you would like any additional information please email us at austnewsdigiproj@nla.gov.au.

David Ong,
Manager, Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program

Hilary Berthon
Coordinator, Australian Newspaper Plan

Hurstbridge Advertiser

Fantastic news from TROVE. Victoria’s third newspaper is to the “Hurstbridge Advertiser”. Some pages are already on line with more to come. It is currently focusing from 1922 -1939.

The Hurstbridge Advertiser superceded the Evelyn Observor from my understanding. It’s masthead provides a good description of its reporting area:

“This paper has a good and increasing circulation throughout the Counties of Evelyn and Bourke, comprising the Shires of Eltham, Epping, Healesville, Heidelberg, Lilydale, Templestowe and Whittlesea

Is officially recognised as the advertising medium for the districts of Arthur’s Creek, Bundoora, Christmas Hills, Cottle’s Bridge, Diamond Creek, Dixon’s Creek, Doreen, Eltham, Hurstbridge, Kangaroo Ground, Kinglake, Kinglake West, Mernda, Nutfield, Panton Hill, Queenstown (St Andrew’s), Queenstown North, Research, Smith’s Gully, Steel’s Creek, South Morang, Strathewen, Upper Diamond Creek, Watson’s Creek, Whittlesea, Yan Yean, and Yarra Glen”

This resource compliments the

The Heidelberg News 1897-1920 and The Evelyn Observer 1882-1901, which we have as desktop resources. Browesable in PDF format only. This is available at Ivanhoe, Diamond Valley and Eltham Libraries.