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Newspapers and current events

Newspaper Databases

Databases with Full Text (Complete newspaper articles)

  • Australia New Zealand Reference Centre (EBSCO)
    Full text articles from selected Australian newspapers, includes The Age, The Australian,
    Herald-Sun, Sydney Morning Herald.
  • Factiva
    Full text articles from major Australian and international newspapers and news magazines, includes The Age, Herald-Sun, The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, Wall Street Journal.
    Note: Limit of 5 simultaneous users.
  • elibrary Australasia
    Full-text articles from selected Australian newspapers including The Australian, The Age,
    Herald-Sun, Sydney Morning Herald.

Databases with Abstracts (Summaries) only

  • MediaScan (Informit)
    Indexes Australian newspapers including The Age, Australian, Bulletin, Herald-Sun, Sydney Morning Herald.
  • TVNews (Informit)
    Indexes Australian television news, current affairs and selected documentaries from free-to-air networks with links to the digitised video content in a compressed format. Updated daily.
  • RequestTV
    RequestTV is a TV program guide for ABC1, ABC2, SBS, Seven, Nine and Ten networks from October 2007 onwards.
    You can request a DVD copy of any program in RequestTV to be added to the library collection.

Australian Newspaper Websites

You can usually view news articles and features for the current day only free of charge. You may need to register.

News Services

Other Australian & International Newspaper Sites

Australian Multicultural Media Websites

Major Events of Previous Years

  • Year in Review
    Annual review of notable people and events of the previous year, from Encyclopedia Britannica.

Author: Kim Hodgman