Alfred Thomas Chandler

Alfred Thomas "Alf" Chandler (3 June 1852 – 17 October 1941) was a journalist, editor and newspaper proprietor in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. He was prominent in the Western Australian secession movement.

Chandler was born in Geelong, Victoria, and began his journalistic career on The Hamilton Spectator. He moved to Adelaide, where he found employment with both daily papers: the South Australian Register, then The Advertiser. He was, in 1889, with H. O. Evans, J. M. Black, and J. R. Powell, a member of the House of Assembly's first Hansard staff. While working at The Advertiser he published two books of verse: A Bush Idyl and Songs of the Sunland.

He joined Harry Evans as co-editor of Quiz, a satirical weekly, to which he also regularly contributed examples of his poetry. He left the partnership (of, by then, Quiz and The Lantern) on 31 August 1894, and left for Coolgardie, where he worked on J. M. Smith's weekly Goldfield Courier and its sister daily, the Golden Age. In 1896 he was elected secretary to the Coolgardie Stock Exchange and the Coolgardie Railway League. He was next editor of the Coolgardie Miner, and gained a great deal of knowledge on the subject of mining, and served as John Kirwan's Coolgardie secretary. In 1905 he left the Miner for the position of secretary to the North End Gold Mining Company Ltd.

Around 1911 he moved to Perth, where he joined the staff of The Sunday Times and around 1920 was promoted to editor, succeeding J. E. Webb, who left for a position with The Bulletin. He retired around 1925, but continued contributing to the Sunday Times and other journals.

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