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Origins of the Mornington Peninsula Post
Local Media Pty Ltd publishes Frankston and Mornington Peninsula editions of The Local Paper. It incorporates the traditions of the Mornington Peninsula Post, Southern Peninsula Gazette and the Hastings Sun. The Peninsula Post began in 1913 as a re-plated edition of the Frankston Post The Mornington Standard was born on October 5, 1889, at a time when the town’s population was 794. William Crawford Jnr…
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