{{Short description|Newspaper in Geraldton, Western Australia}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Geraldton Guardian | school = | logo = | logo_size = | logo_alt = | image = GeraldtonGuardianLogo.PNG | image_size = | image_alt = | caption = The original logo of the ''Geraldton Guardian'' | motto = | type = | format = | owner = <!-- or |owners= --> | founder = Edward Constantine, Frederick Gardner | publisher = | president = | editor = Kate Campbell | chief_editor = | deputy_editor = | associate_editor = | managing_editor = | general_manager = | news_editor = | campus_editor = | campus_chief = | metro_editor = | metro_chief = | opinion_editor = | photo_editor = | staff_writers = | founded = 1906 | political_position = | language = | ceased_publication = | relaunched = | headquarters = | circulation = | circulation_date = | circulation_ref = | readership = | sister_newspapers = | ISSN = 1443-3346 | oclc = | RNI = | website = | free = | publishing_country = Australia | publishing_city = Geraldton }}
The '''''Geraldton Guardian''''' is a newspaper that was established in [[Geraldton, Western Australia]], on 1 October 1906 to serve the Victoria and Murchison Districts. It was launched on principles of liberal democracy, state rights, nationalism and British preference.<ref>{{cite news | title = Introductory | date = 2 October 1906 | url = https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page6483356 | work = Geraldton Guardian | pages = 4 | access-date = 11 March 2014}}</ref>
==History==
===Founding===
The ''Geraldton Guardian'' was established by the proprietors, Constantine and Gardner, at the "Guardian Buildings", Marine Terrace, Geraldton, Western Australia.<ref name=cat1928>{{cite web|title=The Geraldton guardian|url=https://encore.slwa.wa.gov.au/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1734795|website=State Library of Western Australia catalogue|access-date=20 October 2015}}</ref> Edward Constantine, the senior partner of Constantine and Gardner was born in Cornwall, England but emigrated to South Australia with his parents at the age of three.<ref name=Battye>{{cite book|last1=Battye|first1=James Sykes|title=Cyclopedia of Western Australia|pages=986|date=1985|publisher=Hesperian Press|location=State Library of Western Australia|isbn=0859050726|edition=Facsimile|url=https://catalogue.slwa.wa.gov.au/record=b1063017~S7#.VhsqQPmqqko|access-date=12 October 2015}}</ref>
Initially the ''Geraldton Guardian'' was published biweekly on Tuesday and Friday. It consisted of eight demy-folio pages printed on a demy Wharfedale machine.<ref name=Battye /> From 15 October 1907, publication changed to tri-weekly on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.<ref>{{cite news|title=Ourselves and our paper|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/66225932|access-date=13 August 2016|work=The Geraldton Guardian|date=8 October 1907|page=2}}</ref> It was now bring printed on a super double royal Wharfedale powered by a 5-horsepower engine.
===Merged 1929=== On 1 January 1929 the Guardian amalgamated with the other Geraldton newspaper, the ''[[Geraldton Express]]'' (established in 1878), and was published as '''''The Geraldton Guardian and Express''''', an evening daily.<ref>{{cite news | title = The Geraldton Newspaper Merger | date = 8 December 1928 | url = https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article67030989 | work = Geraldton Guardian | pages = 1 | access-date = 11 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title = Ourselves | date = 3 January 1929 | url = https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article67206540 | work = Geraldton Guardian and Express | pages = 1 | access-date = 11 March 2014}}</ref>
===Relaunched 1948=== On 1 January 1948 it changed its name back to ''The Geraldton Guardian''.<ref>{{cite news | title = The Geraldton Guardian with which is incorporated the "Geraldton Express" | date = 3 January 1948 | url = https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page6604364 | work = Geraldton Guardian | pages = 1 | access-date = 11 March 2014}}</ref>
==Availability== Issues of the ''Geraldton Guardian'' (1906 - 1928) and (1948 - 1950) plus ''The Geraldton Guardian and Express'' (1929 - 1947) have been digitised as part of the [[Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Australian Newspaper Digitisaton Program|url=http://www.nla.gov.au/content/newspaper-digitisation-program|website=National Library of Australia|access-date=2 November 2015|archive-date=2 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702090621/http://www.nla.gov.au/content/newspaper-digitisation-program|url-status=dead}}</ref> a project of the [[National Library of Australia]] in cooperation with the [[State Library of Western Australia]].
Hard copy and microfilm copies of the ''Geraldton Guardian'',<ref name=cat1928 /> ''The Geraldton Guardian and Express''<ref>{{cite web|title=Geraldton guardian and express|url=https://encore.slwa.wa.gov.au/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1772429|website=State Library of Western Australia catalogue|access-date=20 October 2015}}</ref> and ''The Geraldton Guardian''<ref>{{cite web|title='The Geraldton guardian|url=https://encore.slwa.wa.gov.au/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1681065|website=State Library of Western Australia catalogue|access-date=20 October 2015}}</ref> are also available at the State Library of Western Australia.
==See also== * [[List of newspapers in Australia]] * [[List of newspapers in Western Australia]]
==References== {{reflist|30em}}
== External links == * Available at [[Trove]]: ** {{trove newspaper|173|Geraldton Guardian|WA: 1906–1928|at=off}} ** {{trove newspaper|220|The Geraldton Guardian and Express|WA: 1929–1947|at=off}} ** {{trove newspaper|221|The Geraldton Guardian|WA: 1948–1950|at=off}}
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