y Smith's Weekly newspaper  
Date: 1919-1931
Date: 1919
Date: 1932-1935
Date: 1935-1939
Date: 1940
Date: 1941-1950
Issue Details: First known date: 1919 1919 OCAL gives final date as 1950; Kinetica gives 1968 but microfilm by pascoes gives 1950 ch 08/09/03 Per his obit, R.J.H. Moses was an editor of Smith's Weekly towards the end of his time there...?1932-1935...but this might or mightn't be the case - rt 27/9/12.
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Abstract

Smith's Weekly was primarily an illustrated broadsheet newspaper carrying whole pages of cartoons, political comment and comic strips. It was named after and initially funded by Sir James Joynton Smith (1858-1943), an Englishman who became lord mayor of Sydney. For much of its life Smith's Weekly was also regarded as 'the Digger's newspaper'. During the 1920s and 1930s it became a leading advocate for the welfare of returned servicemen and women, and throughout its life it ran a regular page of news, correspondence and other items intended for Diggers. This continued in the years following World War II.

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First known date: 1919
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Works about this Work

In the Wake of War : The Rise and Rise of Australia's Media Since 1918 Bridget Griffen-Foley , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Making Australian History : Perspectives on the Past Since 1788 2008;

'Lost in the traditional stories of Depression and unemployment is the extraordinary technological and media revolution that was taking place in Australia of the interwar years. For it was in these years that we now find the origins of the great media empires of the twentieth century: the house of Murdoch and Packer. It saw, too, the birth of widespread radio technology and the iconic Australian serial, The Australian Women's Weekly. Indeed, as Bridget Griffen-Foley demonstrates here, the 1920s and 1930s were far from being just an age of economic hardship. Rather, this was perhaps the first period in Australian history in which most citizens were afforded the opportunity to experience extraordinary new communications technology.'

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Kenneth Slessor Peter Sekuless , 1999-1998 single work biography
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Did You Get It? Humphrey McQueen , 2001 single work biography
— Appears in: Good Weekend , 24 November 2001;
A Prose "Kinema" : Kenneth Slessor's Film Writing Philip Mead , 2000 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Writing and the City : Refereed Proceedings of the 1999 Conference Held at the New South Wales Writers' Centre Sydney 2-6 July 1999 2000;
Drawing Blood Elizabeth Farrelly , 2001 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19-20 May 2001;
y Remember 'Smith's Weekly'? : A Biography of an Uninhibited National Australian Newspaper, Born 1 March 1919, Died 28 October 1950 George Blaikie , 1975 single work criticism
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