The Boomerang

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The Boomerang was a weekly newspaper published in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. [1]

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History

The Boomerang was established by William Lane in 1887, publishing its first issue on 19 November 1887. [2] [3] James Drake, future Attorney-General of Australia, was a shareholder, writer and joint editor. [4]

In 1891, Lane was approached to be the editor of The Worker, a newspaper being established by the local labour unions. As a consequence, Lane sold The Boomerang to Gresley Lukin. Lukin published the newspaper until 9 April 1892 after the company was voluntarily wound up. [5] [6] [7] [8]

Alfred Stephens worked as a sub-editor, but left in 1891 to become editor and part proprietor of the Cairns Argus . Other staff included Alfred Yewen. [9] Zora Cross was a journalist for the paper for three years. [10]

No connection has been found between this newspaper and the 1894 Melbourne Boomerang weekly published by Edward Findley.

Publications

A eulogy by Francis Adams for Danish Australian journalist and Indigenous rights activist Carl Feilberg was published in the journal after his death in late 1887, [11] [12] followed by several of Feilberg's short stories. [13]

Access

A hand-written index to The Boomerang is held by the John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, and all issues (from No. 1 (Saturday, 19 November 1887) to No. 230 (Saturday, 9 April, 1892)) are held in the library both on paper and microfilm. [14] The microform version is available for use at some other libraries. [15]

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References

  1. ↑ Lukin, Gresley (1887), The Boomerang, Alfred Walker, for the Boomerang Newspaper Co, archived from the original on 17 January 2023, retrieved 15 September 2015
  2. ↑ Thompson, Stephen (February 2013). "1893 The New Australia Colony Collection". Powerhouse Museum Migration Heritage Centre. Archived from the original on 13 March 2018. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
  3. ↑ "News of the Day". Toowoomba Chronicle and Darling Downs General Advertiser . No. 3899. Queensland, Australia. 22 November 1887. p. 3. Archived from the original on 17 January 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2017– via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ Gibbney, H. J. (1981). "Drake, James George (1850–1941)". Australian Dictionary of Biography . National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN   1833-7538 . Retrieved 19 October 2007.
  5. ↑ "Letters to the Editor". The Telegraph . Queensland, Australia. 11 November 1946. p. 2. Archived from the original on 17 January 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2017– via National Library of Australia.
  6. ↑ "Odd Notes". The Mirror . No. 12. New South Wales, Australia. 15 September 1917. p. 14. Archived from the original on 17 January 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2017– via National Library of Australia.
  7. ↑ The boomerang, W. & F. Pascoe Pty. Ltd, 1887, archived from the original on 17 January 2023, retrieved 4 October 2017
  8. ↑ "Local and General News". Warwick Argus . Vol. XXVII, no. 2116. Queensland, Australia. 16 April 1892. p. 2. Archived from the original on 17 January 2023. Retrieved 4 October 2017– via National Library of Australia.
  9. ↑ Campion, Edmund (1990). "Yewen, Alfred Gregory (1867–1923)". Australian Dictionary of Biography . National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Archived from the original on 14 February 2017. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  10. ↑ Adelaide, Debra (1988), Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide, Pandora, p. 42, ISBN   978-0-86358-148-9
  11. ↑ Eulogy by Francis Adams, in The Boomerang 19 November 1887, p.13.
  12. ↑ Daley, Paul (21 September 2018). "'Wholesale massacre': Carl Feilberg exposed the ugly truth of the Australian frontier". The Guardian .
  13. ↑ "Carl Feilberg: Works by". AustLit . Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  14. ↑ "The Boomerang". State Library of Queensland catalogue. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  15. ↑ "Boomerang (Brisbane, Qld.)". State Library of Victoria catalogue. Retrieved 4 November 2023.

The Boomerang. No. 1 (Nov. 19, 1887) - no. 59 (Dec. 29, 1888). State Library of Queensland

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