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Daily Liberal Daily Liberal office in Dubbo Type Weekly newspaper Format Tabloid Owner Australian Community Media Founded 1875 Headquarters Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia Website www.dailyliberal.com.au

Dubbo Liberal & Macquarie Advocate 3 January 1894

The ***Daily Liberal*** is a [weekly newspaper](/source/Weekly_newspaper) produced in the city of [Dubbo](/source/Dubbo), [New South Wales](/source/New_South_Wales), Australia. The news stories published relate particularly to the city of Dubbo and the surrounding district. The newspaper was first printed in 1875. The current price for the daily editions is [A$](/source/Australian_dollar)2.00. It has previously been published as *The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate* and *The Daily Liberal and Macquarie Advocate*.

## History

The paper was named *The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate* from 1892-1927, and was published by William White.[1] It sought to publish "The latest colonial and intercolonial telegrams, cablegrams, local and general news".[2] The newspaper was distributed every Wednesday and Saturday mornings from an office in Wingewarra Street, Dubbo to surrounding towns including [Bourke](/source/Bourke%2C_New_South_Wales), [Bathurst](/source/Bathurst%2C_New_South_Wales), [Gilgandra](/source/Gilgandra), [Narromine](/source/Narromine), [Orange](/source/Orange%2C_New_South_Wales), [Walgett](/source/Walgett) and [Wellington](/source/Wellington%2C_New_South_Wales).[2]

From June 1964 it was published by Macquarie Publications as *The Daily Liberal and Macquarie Advocate*.[3]

In February 2025, [Australian Community Media](/source/Australian_Community_Media) reduced the printed edition from daily to weekly.[4]

## Distribution

The *Daily Liberal* is distributed to the major western towns of Dubbo, [Brewarrina](/source/Brewarrina), [Narromine](/source/Narromine), [Wellington](/source/Wellington%2C_New_South_Wales), [Gilgandra](/source/Gilgandra), [Coonamble](/source/Coonamble), [Bourke](/source/Bourke%2C_New_South_Wales), [Cobar](/source/Cobar) and [Walgett](/source/Walgett) most commonly as an insert to each town's respective local paper.

## Ownership

In 1949, the newspaper was purchased by Leo Armati and his wife Pat, establishing Macquarie Publications group that grew into the largest independently-owned regional publishing group in Australia. Macquarie retained ownership until December 1995 when [Rural Press](/source/Rural_Press) acquired the *Daily Liberal*, the *Weekend Liberal* and the other 55 newspapers and magazines in the Macquarie Publications group.[5] Rural Press merged into [Fairfax Media](/source/Fairfax_Media) in 2007, but was split out into [Australian Community Media](/source/Australian_Community_Media) when Fairfax was acquired by [Nine Entertainment](/source/Nine_Entertainment) in July 2018.[6]

## Digitisation

This newspaper has been partially digitised as part of the [Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program](/source/Australian_Newspapers_Digitisation_Program) project hosted by the [National Library of Australia](/source/National_Library_of_Australia).[7]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Trove_1-0)** ["The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title188). National Library of Australia. Retrieved 28 November 2012.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-3Jan1894_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-3Jan1894_2-1) ["The Local Newspaper, The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate"](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page6935974). *[The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate (NSW : 1892 - 1927)](/source/The_Dubbo_Liberal_and_Macquarie_Advocate)*. NSW: National Library of Australia. 3 January 1894. p. 4. Retrieved 29 November 2012.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Daily liberal and Macquarie advocate (microform)"](http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b2565069~S2). *Catalogue*. [State Library of New South Wales](/source/State_Library_of_New_South_Wales). Retrieved 29 November 2012.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Australian Community Media flags future further reduction in print editions](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-07/acm-newspapers-print-editions-saturdays/104908300) *[ABC News](/source/ABC_News_(Australia))* 7 February 2025

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** *[Rural Press Limited Annual Report to Shareholders 1995-1996](http://www.ruralpress.com/corp/finance/report96/mac.asp) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20050702013815/http://www.ruralpress.com/corp/finance/report96/mac.asp) 2 July 2005 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine)*, Review of Operations, Regional Acquisitions by Ian Law, General Manager Special Projects (accessed 1 January 2006)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Marsh, Stuart (26 July 2018). ["Nine and Fairfax agree terms to merge to become Australia's largest media company"](https://finance.nine.com.au/business-news/nine-and-fairfax-agree-terms-to-merge/c1c826d8-51b6-4999-b657-a2d4f8e6c501). *9Finance*. Retrieved 2 May 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["Newspaper Digitisation Program"](https://web.archive.org/web/20150702090621/http://www.nla.gov.au/content/newspaper-digitisation-program). National Library of Australia. Archived from [the original](http://www.nla.gov.au/content/newspaper-digitisation-program) on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 5 June 2013.

## External links

- [*Daily Liberal* website](http://www.dailyliberal.com.au/)

- [*The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate*](http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title188) at [Trove](/source/Trove)

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