Archives for October 1970

Local Media Pty Ltd, current-day publisher of the Melbourne Observer and The Local Paper network, can trace its beginnings to the first days of the Sunday Observer and Nation Review newspapers. The Sunday Observer newspaper was established in Melbourne by businessman Gordon Barton (IPEC) on September 14, 1969. The Sunday Review (later The Review and then Nation Review) first hit the streets on October 11, 1970. Local Media Pty Ltd

Nation Review was a central part of Australian politics in the early 1970s, and Local Media pioneer Ash Long was there at the beginning. The weekly Sunday Review newspaper was founded on Sunday, October 11, 1970, and the family of Ash Long (then aged 13) had a part-time newspaper distribution business for Gordon Barton’s Melbourne Sunday Observer. It would