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'The Queensland Times is the oldest surviving provincial paper in Queensland. Founded in 1859 as the Ipswich Herald, it has continued ever since. Until a printer's strike briefly interrupted production in 1972, it had the proud record of never having missed a scheduled issue, in spite of fires, floods and machinery breakdowns.
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'One of the main aims of the Ipswich Herald was to promote Ipswich's claims to be capital city of the Moreton bay colony as separation from New South Wales loomed. It was bought in 1861 by Hugh Parkinson and two other north Australian employees, Hugh [sic] Bowring Sloman and Francis Kidner. They changed its name to The Queensland Times and said it "would undertake to speak as from the centre of authority, the capital, and would oppose centralization in Brisbane." The editor was J. C. Thompson, who later surveyed and laid out the city of Bundaberg.
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'Between the 1860s and the 1880s the bi-weekly Queensland Times faced competition from other newspapers, but outlasted them all. It became a morning daily in 1899, but a depression forced it to revert to a tri-weekly publication until, in 1908, it became a daily again.'
The Queensland Times later became 'a member of the APN News & Media Ltd Group'.
Source: The Queensland Times website: http://www.qt.com.au/aboutus/
Sighted: 23/04/2013
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Early editors: C. J. Thompson, George Butterfield, Joseph Butterfield, Dr Carr Boyd, John Irwin, John Woolley (for 20 years), A Robinson, F J Meacham, K S McGill, E J Hutton and C Cook.
Source: Beryl Johnston, 'Proud History of Publishing', Queensland Times, (24 December 2011): 18
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