Looking for a specific Australian newspaper?
Start with MultiSearch. Type the title of your newspaper into the search box and hit 'search'. To refine your results, select 'Newspapers' under the Header 'Resource Type'. MultiSearch will then narrow the results to newspapers.
To clarify your results:
Click on the Details tab to see the place of publication.
For physical copies, click on Hold/ARC request to see which years we hold at MQ.
For online copies, click on the View Online link to see which years MQ holds.
The State LIbrary of NSW has an extensive collection of Australian Newspapers.
New South Wales residents are eligible to join and access their online collections including the Newsbank database.
The SLNSW also has an extensive Digital Collection some of which is available without joining.
The National Library of Australia also has an extensive collection of Australian Newspapers.
Australian residents are eligible to join.
The NLA digitises and maintains its collection of historic Australian newspapers which are freely accessible via TROVE (see also above)
Use the Newspaper databases in MultiSearch to search for news on a topic (see link below).
Australia and New Zealand Newsstream is recommended for Australian news (see link below).
When searching newspaper databases use the advanced search options to improve your search results.
Looking for news on a particular person or organisation? Use the drop-down menu to search 'person' or 'company/organisation'.
Use the publication date filter to look for stories in a particular date range.
When finding news sources on social media platform X, look for the verified symbol which means that the account belongs to the person or organisation it claims to represent.
Here are some key Australian news organisations on X.