Albany Advertiser
Front cover of the first issue of the Albany Advertiser
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| Type | Bi-weekly |
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| Owner(s) | Seven West Media |
| Founder(s) | Lancel Victor De Hamel, William Forster |
| Founded | 1888 |
| City | Perth |
| Country | Australia |
The Albany Advertiser, also published as the Australian Advertiser and the Albany Advertiser and Plantagenet and Denmark Post, is a biweekly English language newspaper published for Albany and the Great Southern region in Western Australia.
First published in 1888 as the Australian Advertiser, the paper is still in circulation. The paper is the oldest continuous-running non-metropolitan newspaper in Western Australia.
The paper is printed twice weekly, on Tuesday and Thursday, and distributed to towns through the Great Southern region including Albany, Cranbrook, Mount Barker, Jerramungup, Ravensthorpe, Katanning and Walpole.
The office of the newspaper is called Newspaper House and is located in the main street York Street, Albany.
Australian Advertiser co-founder, Lancel Victor de Hamel, arrived in Albany in 1886 and announced his intention to run for mayor. De Hamel was given little support from the only paper in town, the conservative Albany Mail and King George's Sound Advertiser. He then set up a second publication with his partner, William Forster, called the Australian Advertiser which first published on 14 May 1888. Shortly afterward De Hamel was elected as mayor. The Albany Mail was absorbed by the Australian Advertiser September1889.
Forster took over the paper after De Hamel's departure in 1891. He remained the editor of the paper until 1900, when he left to work on the Morning Herald in Perth. After his departure Arthur Catling took over as editor, and the paper moved to a bi-weekly format.
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