The South Coast Bulletin

The South Coast Bulletin was an English language newspaper published in Southport, Queensland, Australia between Friday 21 December 1928 and Friday 3 May 1963.

History

The newspaper has undergone a series of masthead and ownership changes.^[1][2] Initially produced in a tin shed in Lawson Street and called The Southern Queensland Bulletin 1885 - 189[?] it was the first newspaper published in Southport, Queensland and was the work of editor/publisher Mr Patrick Joseph McNamara ^[3] who was succeeded by Mr Shepherd and Mr Mellor.^[4] Between 189[?] and 1928, the broadsheet was known as The Logan and Albert Bulletin. It was during this period that the Rootes family became associated with the publication, a relationship that spanned generations^[5] and provided stability to the publication.^[6] In 1908 Mr Edward Fass purchased the newspaper^[7] and sold his interest in 1928. On 21 December 1928,^[8] under the editorship of Mr Michael James O'Donohue, the newspaper changed format to a tabloid and altered its masthead for a third time to The South Coast Bulletin.^[9] In 1930 a new editor, Mr Norman Sydney Woodroffe, was appointed.^[10] During the 1930s The South Coast Bulletin was published weekly ^[11] on a Friday. It focused on local issues and "...was strongly involved in promoting the South Coast as a holiday resort...".^[12] It included information on pioneers of the region,^[13] reported on items of interest to local residents and advocated for the improvement of the steadily growing region now known as the Gold Coast, Queensland.

In 1963 The South Coast Bulletin underwent yet another name change to become the Gold Coast Bulletin.^[14][15]

Digitisation

The paper has been partially digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia.

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• Newspaper Digitisation Program

See also

• List of Newspapers in Australia
• List of Newspapers in Queensland

References

External links

• The Gold Coast Bulletin
• The South Coast Bulletin (QLD : 1929 - 1939) at Trove Digitised newspapers and more
• State Library of Queensland missing newspapers South East region

Bibliography

• Kirkpatrick, Rod (1984), Sworn to no master : a history of the provincial press in Queensland to 1930, Darling Downs Institute Press, ISBN 978-0-909306-60-1 
• Kirkpatrick, Rod; Queensland Country Press Association (2008), Purposely parochial : 100 years of the Country Press in Queensland (1st ed.), Queensland Country Press Association, ISBN 978-0-646-49194-3 
• McRobbie, Alexander (2000), 20th Century Gold Coast People, Surfers Paradise: The Gold Coast Arts Centre Press, ISBN 0-646-39239-5 
• Galton, Barry (1985), The Gold Coast Bulletin: A history of a regional newspaper (1885-1985), Southport: Gold Coast Publications Pty Limited, ISBN 0-9589409-0-8 
• Elliott, John (1980), Southport - Surfers Paradise: An illustrated history to commemorate the Centenary of the Southport State School, Gold Coast Publications Pty Ltd, ISBN 0-9594767-0-9 
• "Coast History Recorded", The Hinterland Sun, 8 November 2001: 2 
• "The reproduction of a Bulletin front page from October, 1929, shows how that newspaper acknowledged the pioneers of the rapidly growing place that would become the Gold Coast", The Gold Coast Bulletin, 5 December 1984: 4 
• "Man of bold type", The Gold Coast Bulletin, 8 April 1993: 8 
• Kirkpatrick, Rod (May 2005). "Bulletin struggled early but boomed with the Gold Coast". Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers Association Bulletin: 56–57. Retrieved 6 March 2014. 
• The Gold Coast Bulletin