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y separately published work icon The Australasian newspaper  
Alternative title: Australasian National Illustrated Weekly; Australasian (Melbourne)
Issue Details: First known date: 1864... 1864 The Australasian
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Notes

  • Much AustLit indexing of The Australasian was completed prior to the newspaper's digitisation. Links from AustLit records to the digitised versions will be added progressively.
  • Issues of the Australasian from 4 January 1868 to 29 August 1868 were indexed as part of the Colonial Newspapers and Magazines Project.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,:Hugh George , 1864-1946 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
In 1854, W. W. , single work short story

The tale opens on the Clever Gully Diggings where a group of young men are gold-mining. But when one of the men's match boxes falls into the creek, he walks to a nearby house and so begins the retelling of what happened in 1854...

 (p. 2) Section: Supplement
Note:

Published on 15 October 1881 (Saturday)
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 1864
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Related Works

y separately published work icon Bell's Life in Victoria and Sporting Chronicle Bell's Life in Victoria 1857 Melbourne : Charles Frederick Somerton , 1857-1868 Z1270215 1857 newspaper (25 issues)
y separately published work icon The Australasian Sketcher with Pen and Pencil The Australasian Sketcher 1873 Melbourne : Wilson and Mackinnon , 1873-1889 Z1118470 1873 periodical (19 issues) Published by the proprieters of the Argus and the Australasian, the Sketcher contains articles, short stories, theatre and music reviews, social and sporting notes and engravings on Australia, chiefly Victoria and South Australia, and New Zealand. Includes some material on Fiji, New Guinea and the Pacific Islands. Literary content reduced in later issues. Contributors included Marcus Clarke, Thomas Carrington, Louis Buvelot and John Gully.

The Prospectus published in the Argus (24 March, 1873) states that the new publication will 'deal with the picturesque phases of our public and social life' while 'leaving in a great measure the publication and discussion of political and parliamentary news, and legal, commercial, and industrial intelligence, to the daily and weekly press'.
y separately published work icon Australasian Post New Post Melbourne : The Argus and Australian Ltd , 1946-1996 Z1424642 1946-1996 periodical (5 issues)
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Works about this Work

y separately published work icon Index to Serials in Australian Periodicals and Newspapers : Nineteenth Century Toni Johnson-Woods , Canberra : Mulini Press , 2001 Z971477 2001 single work index Index to serials in 15 large circulation weekly publications published in Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales between 1860 and 1899. The index also gives an overview of the publishing history of these titles and includes an author/title index.
'A Careworn Writer for the Press': Henry Kendall in Melbourne Ken A. Stewart , 1992 single work biography
— Appears in: Henry Kendall : The Muse of Australia 1992; (p. 165-205) Investigations in Australian Literature 2000; (p. 47-88)
The Extended Edwardianism of Australian Literature Adrian Mitchell , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Aspects of Australian Fiction : Essays Presented to John Colmer, Professor Emeritus of English, The University of Adelaide 1990; (p. 53-72)
Colonial Periodicals: Patterns of Failure Lurline Stuart , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin , First Quarter vol. 13 no. 1 1989; (p. 1-10)
Retrieving Colonial Literary Culture: The Case for an Index to Serial Fiction in Australian (or Australasian?) Newspapers Elizabeth Morrison , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin , First Quarter vol. 13 no. 1 1989; (p. 27-36) Australian Subject Bibliography After 1988 1990; (p. 35-47)
'Half Bushman - Half Bookworm' - Furphy, Collins and Literary Culture in Victoria Ken A. Stewart , Julian Croft , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: Notes & Furphies , April no. 20 1988; (p. 1-2)
'A Careworn Writer for the Press': Henry Kendall in Melbourne Ken A. Stewart , 1992 single work biography
— Appears in: Henry Kendall : The Muse of Australia 1992; (p. 165-205) Investigations in Australian Literature 2000; (p. 47-88)
A Lady's Letter from London: 1873-1908 Ian Sibley , 1984 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 11 no. 4 1984; (p. 502-507)
Personal Reminiscences of Adam Lindsay Gordon J. Hammersley , 1884 single work biography
— Appears in: Victorian Review , 1 May vol. 10 no. 55 1884; (p. 66-69)
Three Old Victorian Magazines J. B. , 1881 single work criticism
— Appears in: Melbourne Review , July vol. 6 no. 23 1881; (p. 293-302)
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PeriodicalNewspaper Details

Frequency:
Weekly
Range:
No. 1 (1 October 1864) - 31 March 1866 ; New series. v. 1, no. 1 (7 April 1866) - v. 160, no. 5075 (6 April 1946)
Continues:
Bell's Life in Victoria and Sporting Chronicle ; Australasian Sketcher With Pen and Pencil
Continued by:
Australasian Post
Size:
53cm
Note:
Formed by the merger of weekly Argus and Examiner and Melbourne Weekly News and Yeoman and Australian Acclimatiser
Note:
Changed to tabloid format and began new series as of 7 April 1866
Note:
Incorporates Bell's Life in Victoria and Sporting Chronicle as of 11 January 1868
Note:
Incorporates Australasian Sketcher With Pen and Pencil as of 26 December 1889
Note:
Titled Australasian National Illustrated Weekly from 5 June 1937

Has serialised

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Petals on the Stream, Hilda Bridges , single work novel
Jorgenson : King of Adventurers, Marcus Clarke , single work biography
'In Ross's Van Diemen's Land Annual for 1835, appears the first part of a 'Shred of Autobiography, containing various anecdotes, personal and historical, connected with these colonies'. This autobiography is anonymous, and was written by a manumitted convict...' (71)
Up the Murray, Ada Cambridge , single work novel
Dinah, Ada Cambridge , single work novel
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