The West Australian

The West Australian is an Australian newspaper. Your Sunday edition is called The Sunday Times. Its head office is in Perth.

It is the second oldest newspaper produced in Australia. Your first issue appeared in 1833. During the week, the circulation is 200,000, on Saturday, the newspaper reaches 370,000 readers.

The West Australian is published in tabloid format.

Content

The West is politically populist strictly conservative orientation. Former Prime Minister Paul Keating described the newspaper as the worst in Australia. The newspaper contains international, national and local news. In addition, the newspaper the West Weekend Magazine, which is included in the Saturday edition published.

History

The West Australian has its origins in The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal, whose first issue appeared on January 5, 1833. The postmaster of Perth, Charles Macfaull, founded and created the sheet initially as a four -page weekly newspaper. It By 1864, The West Australian published every Saturday, then Friday. Later it was renamed The Perth Gazette and published by Arthur Shenton. On 26 June 1874, the newspaper was eventually bought by a group of entrepreneurs and renamed The Western Australian Times - this was also the first publication of two days a week for the result. On November 18, 1879, the newspaper was refounded as The West Australian. Following the increase in circulation on three weekdays in the year 1883, two years later was issued daily. In 1885, was first published in The Western Mail of the owners of "The West Australian ". Among the most famous authors, among others belonged Sir Paul Hasluck.