The Sydney Morning Herald Celebrates 185 Years
It started when a trio of twentysomething commercial printers decided to take on the Monitor, Australian and Gazette.
The Sydney Morning Herald has gone full bore to celebrate its 185th anniversary, and the result is too many great features to mention. The first weekly edition rolled off the presses April 18, 1831, and by Oct. 1, 1840, the paper was a daily. (At press time, it’s Monday morning in Sydney.)
Reporter Julie Power highlights several subscribers for whom the paper meant so much that it figured prominently at their funeral or burial. Columnist Peter FitzSimmons remembers how, as a day laborer, he breached new ground and pride when his piece about playing rugby in Italy was published.
And in the historical summary by Max Prisk, one of the paper’s darkest early episodes is recalled:
In 1838, when up to 30 Aboriginal men, women and children were massacred by white stockmen at Myall Creek, near Inverell, came one of the most regretted stains on the Herald’s history.
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