Local Newspapers

Historic Australian Newspapers. This digital database provides extensive coverage of Australian newspapers from 1803 to 1954. Trove has recently been updated to include the Morwell Advertiser, The Traralgon Record, and Sale's Gippsland Times as well as newspapers from other areas of Gippsland.

Morwell Library

Morwell Library holds the following newspapers in microfilm or paper format

Morwell 

• Morwell & Yinnar Gazette [microfilm]; 6 Oct. 1885 to 5 Jan. 1921
• Morwell Advertiser [microfilm]; 30 Oct. 1886 to 28 Jun. 1965
• Morwell Advertiser [bound]; 1965 to 1972

 Moe- Narracan area

• Narracan Shire Advocate [microfilm]; 12 Jan. 1921 to 21 Dec. 1951
• Moe Register [microfilm]; 14 July 1888 to 30 March 1889
• The Trafalgar & Yarragon times [microfilm]; 3 May 1902 to 27 Dec 1918

 Latrobe Valley

• Latrobe Valley Express.  [bound]; 14 Jul. 1965 to present.
• Latrobe Valley Advocate & Advertiser [bound]; 3 Jan. 1968 to 30 Jun. 1969

The current issue and back copies of the Latrobe Valley Express are also online

 Churchill

• Churchill News [bound]; 19 August 1967 to present

The current issue and back copies of the Churchill News are also online

 Boolarra

• Boolarra Link [bound]; Vol.1, no.1 April(?) 1982 to present (incomplete)

 Traralgon Library

Traralgon Library holds the following newspapers in microfilm or paper format

Traralgon

The Traralgon Record 1886-1932 is now available through the National Libraries Digital Newspapers. Use the Advanced Search section to locate specific articles in the Traralgon Record.

• *Gippsland Farmer's Journal [microfilm]; 27 Jan 1887 to 27 Dec 1923.
• Traralgon Journal [microfilm]; 1 Jan 1933 to 31 Dec 1970.
• Traralgon Record [microfilm]; 14 Dec 1883 to 22 Dec 1932.
• Traralgon Journal [bound] 2nd Dec. 1965 to present.

*Note that the Gippsland Farmer's Journal was renamed the Traralgon Journal in 1923. The Traralgon Journal and the Traralgon Record merged in 1933 and until the fifties was published as the Traralgon Journal and Record. It is now the Traralgon Journal.

 Toongabbie, Glengarry

• Glengarry, Toongabbie and Cowwarr Journal and Central Gippsland Reporter [microfilm]; 3 Oct. 1893 to 31 Dec. 1914

 Latrobe Valley

• Latrobe Valley Express [bound]; 18 Jan. 1967 to 20 Dec. 1974 (Morwell library holds a full run of this newspaper). This newspaper is also available online.

 Rosedale

• Rosedale Courier [microfilm]; 3 Aug. 1889 to 23 Dec. 1920.

 Sale

• Gippsland Times [microfilm]; 16 Aug. 1861 to 25 Jul. 1888 and 3 Jan.1901 to 30 Dec. 1920. The Gippsland Times 1861-1954 is now available through the National Libraries Digital Newspapers. Use the Advanced Search section to locate specific articles in the Gippsland Ttimes

Port Albert

• Gippsland Guardian [microfilm]; 5 Oct 1855 to 13 Jul. 1866

 Drouin

• Gippsland Independent and Express [microfilm]; 3 Jan. 1879 to 5 Jan. 1921  

 Moe Library

Moe Library holds the following newspapers in paper format

Moe

• Moe News 27 July 1988 to present