The Queanbeyan Age

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The Queanbeyan Age is a weekly newspaper based in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia. Founded in 1860 by John 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 "The Golden Age" presumably because of the very small gold rush in and around Queanbeyan during the 1850s.

These days, The Queanbeyan Age publishes once a week on Fridays. It has a readership of approximately 15,000^[1] or about 40 per cent of the population of the city. The newspaper previously published twice a week, and prior to that it was published three times a week. Due to economic reasons publishing has been scaled back. The paper currently publishes in 40 or 48 page editions, which contain local news, community news, business, arts and entertainment, sport, a TV Guide and a puzzles page.

It survives with only three full-time reporters - one for sport, and two for all other news, one of these being the editor. There are also some part-time and casual reporting staff.

It also has approximately four or five people who work on classifieds and advertising.

The Queanbeyan Age has a close relationship with The Canberra Times, and relies on it for its printing presses in order to create the publication. Since July 2006, it has been working in much closer relationships with both The Canberra Times and The Canberra Chronicle - all three papers are owned by Rural Press.

It has been available on the Internet since about 2000.

The Queanbeyan Age also distributes a monthly magazine, known as Homefront.