The Argus (Melbourne)

The Argus
The Argus office at 76 Collins Street, Melbourne in 1867
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet, then tabloid from 1942[1]
Founder(s)William Kerr
Founded1846 (1846)
Ceased publicationJanuary 19, 1957 (1957-01-19)
Free online archiveshttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/title/13

The Argus was an Australian daily morning newspaper in Melbourne from 2 June 1846 to 19 January 1957, and was considered to be the general Australian newspaper of record for this period.[2] Widely known as a conservative newspaper for most of its history, it adopted a left-leaning approach from 1949. The Argus's main competitor was David Syme's more liberal-minded newspaper, The Age.

  1. ^ "Argus". Paper World. 2014.
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