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 130 Australian newspapers. All of the digitised newspapers are fully text-searchable and users can enrich and enhance the data . . . more »

The following newspapers have been added to Australian newspapers, magazines and more.  In addtion to the recently reported Advertiser (Hurstbridge, Vic. : 1922-1939,  We now have Eltham and Whittlesea Shires Advertiser (Vic. : 1940-1942), Eltham and Whittlesea Shires Advertiser and Diamond Creek Valley Advocate (Vic. : 1917-1922) as well as other regional Victorian newspapers.  To view the current list visit: Victoria - Newspaper and Magazine . . . more »

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 The Hurstbridge Advertiser superceded the Evelyn Observor from my understanding.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 . . . more »

Newspapers are a wonderful source for information for local history researchers. They will often have an obscure piece of information not found anywhere else. Yarra Plenty Regional Library holds local newspapers in each of our local history collections. These include hard copies of Diamond Valley News/Diamond Valley Leader 1974 - 2010 at Eltham and Diamond Valley Libraries Heidelberg Leader at Ivanhoe Library and Whittlesea News . . . more »