{{Use Australian English|date=July 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}} {{italic title}} '''''The National Times''''', later '''''National Times on Sunday''''', was an Australian weekly newspaper published by Fairfax News from 1971 to 1986.<ref>[http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/681466 Catalogue entry]. National Library of Australia</ref><ref>''[http://search.lib.monash.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=MON&search_scope=default_scope&docId=catau21203112450001751&fn=permalink Australia: The National Times]'' at Monash University Library</ref>
==Background== The paper quickly developed a reputation for accurate investigative journalism, winning four consecutive Walkley Awards for best newspaper feature in 1975, 1976, 1977 and 1978.<ref>{{Citation | url=https://www.academia.edu/22322899 | title=The History of Investigative Journalism in Australia |first=Andrea | last=Carson | accessdate=2021-11-15}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | author1=Pullan, Robert, 1944- | author2=National Times | title=The Way we are : a national portrait by the National Times | year=1985 | publication-date=1985 | publisher=Unwin Paperbacks | isbn=978-0-86861-751-0 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation | author1=Phillips, Richard | author2=Hogg, Russell | author3=Brown, David (David Bentley), 1948- | title=Not the National Times | publication-date=1985 | publisher=The Editors | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/34895643 | accessdate=20 July 2017 }}</ref> In the 1980s, it "exposed networks of influence and links between organised crime and public administration in New South Wales".<ref>Minchin, Liz. [http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/4c40/essays/minchin.htm Digging in the dirt]. ABC Four Corners</ref><ref> The library summary text of {{Citation | author1=Amos, Jessica | title='The National Times: bastard of a paper' | publication-date=1 January 2005 | publisher=School of Journalism and Creative Arts - Faculty of Creative Arts | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/4008546 | accessdate=20 July 2017 }}</ref>
It coincided with the publication of ''Nation Review'' (1970 to 1981), also a weekly newspaper.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Walsh, Richard | author2=Walsh, Richard, 1941- | title=Ferretabilia : life and times of Nation review | year=1993 | publication-date=1993 | publisher=University of Queensland Press | isbn=978-0-7022-2450-8 }}</ref>
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