The Federal Capital Pioneer, also published as The Federal Capital Pioneer Magazine, was a newspaper published in Canberra, Australia from 1924 to 1927. [1] [2]
The Federal Capital Pioneer, also published as The Federal Capital Pioneer Magazine, was a newspaper published in Canberra, Australia from 1924 to 1927. [1] [2]
The Federal Capital Pioneer was published from 3 December 1924 to August 1926 in Canberra. [2] It was then published as The Federal Capital Pioneer Magazine from 15 October 1926 to 20 August 1927. [3]
This newspaper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia. [2] [3]
The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act 1960 for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the Australian people", thus functioning as a national library. It is located in Parkes, Canberra, ACT.
Kingston is the oldest and one of the most densely populated suburbs of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. The suburb is named after Charles Cameron Kingston, the former Premier of South Australia and minister in the first Australian Commonwealth Government. It is adjacent to the suburbs of Barton, Fyshwick, Griffith and Manuka. The suburb of Kingston is situated about 4 km from the centre of Canberra.
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The Queanbeyan Age is a weekly newspaper based in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia. It has had a number of title changes throughout its publication history. First published on 15 September 1860 by John Gale and his brother, Peter Francis Gale, The Golden Age, as it was known at the time, was the first newspaper of the small township on the banks of the Queanbeyan River. It was named due to the short-lived Kiandra goldrush, which generated large amounts of gold-based traffic through the region.
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