SA Newspapers: Far North

This title began as a newsletter. After some financial difficulties it was bought by the editor, Margaret McKay in 2007, and its circulation tripled.

This title began as a newsletter. After some financial difficulties it was bought by the editor, Margaret McKay in 2007, and its circulation tripled.

Eucla was important as the location of a repeater station on the Adelaide-Perth telegraph line. The little magazine largely contained news for the staff employed at the station.

This began as a community magazine for Woomera residents.

The Northern Sun replaced the earlier Dam News newsletter. It was the first newspaper for the mining camp of Olympic Dam. Since 2002 the newspaper has been titled Roxby Downs Sun, and the town re-named Roxby Downs. It is published by the Transcontinental at Port Augusta. It was taken over by Rural Press in 1991, which is now part of Fairfax Media.

The Roxby Downs Sun was founded in 1988 under the title Northern Sun. This was the first newspaper for the mining camp of Olympic Dam.

The discovery of gold at Teetulpa attracted 2,000 prospectors to the makeshift town. (Terowie Enterprise 29 October 1886, p. 2) By the middle of the following year the gold was giving out, and the population dwindled. At the height, Robert Osborne of the Port Augusta Dispatch published a newspaper for the miners. Only one issue of the newspaper (number 11) is known to now exist. This contains advertisements for local businesses, brief news items, stories and poems. Local news includes reports of typhoid fever, a visiting ‘Indian tourist’ and ‘Lady minstrel’ company, and a Christian mission service held to raise funds for the local destitute poor.