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premises consisted of three small rooms, one behind the other. In the front room "copy" was produced, the second was the composing room, and the third was where the hand-worked press printed the newspapers. It was decided to move the operation to higher ground on the north side of lower Sturt Street,
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on 3 December 1854. In the aftermath of Eureka, twenty-five liberal-minded gentlemen each contributed £25 to bring the rival newspaper into being. They named their publication after the Star Hotel in Main Street where they met to discuss the proposal and to pledge the capital for their joint-stock
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used it as a mouthpiece for the consolidation of all the diggers' newly won rights which had become the common rights of all
Victorians. From the beginning the paper "maintained its position as a consistent advocate" of State policies which were a continuation of legislative reform in the best
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gave a warning against anarchy but also stated, "Arguments, straightforward and convincing, will be the principal weapon used by us. Candour and impartiality it will ever be our endeavour to maintain, and whilst these columns are open to all, we distinctly state that we shall most assuredly be
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masthead centrepiece depicted a modified Eureka star, only one word, Victoria, and sketches depicting life in
Ballarat. There is a wheatsheaf and mining icons: a windlass, tent, cradle, pick and shovel and a trunk presumably full of gold to be shipped back to the home country.
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Nearly everybody can read, and nearly everybody has leisure to do so. Again the proportion of the population who can afford to subscribe to newspapers is ten times as large as in
England; hence the number of sheets issued is comparatively much
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was sixpence on 22 September 1855, 4d on 1 July 1865, 3d on 1 October 1867, 2d on 19 May 1868, 1d on 1 January 1876. In 1903 the price advertised was still one penny for "six pages daily" and "eight pages on
Saturday".
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In the ensuing decades the prestige of the paper was upheld "as one of the most consistently and ably conducted organs of public opinion extant in
Australia." The following reference to
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began as a tri-weekly journal until 15 December 1856 when it became a morning daily. It was
Ballarat's second successful newspaper, established as a reaction to the more radical
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ceased to be a joint-stock company and became a privately owned partnership between T. D. Wanliss and
Richard Belford, the latter moving on after only a short time.
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has always held a high position amongst the leading provincial journals, and is undeniably one of the best and most ably conducted daily newspapers in the colony.
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from 22 September 1855 to 13 September 1924 and it is the microfilmed masters from this collection that have been sent to
Canberra to be digitised.\
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were near neighbours in lower Sturt Street and the columnists of both papers thrived on the rivalry with amusing references to the opposition.
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Its first number was printed and published in the middle of a hurricane and inundation, with the printers nearly up to their middle in water.
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In the centre is the eight-pointed star used on the Eureka flag at the uprising nine months earlier and the motto of the
British monarchy,
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still in the centre of commercial activity, but in the municipal district of Ballarat West. By 1870 Ballarat's two morning papers,
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venture. T. D. Wanliss was appointed business manager and the first editors were J. J. Ham and Samuel Irwin.
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claimed it "circulated amongst a mining, commercial, and agricultural population of 100,000".
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Mansfield, Peter G. Editor (1982). Spielvogel Papers Volume 1, Ballarat Historical Society. (
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a joint-stock company (R. M. Serjeant chairman, H. R. Nicholls manager)
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is the oldest, most influential, and most widely read Ballarat journal.
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Corfield, Justin; Wickham, Dorothy; Gervasoni, Clare (2004).
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