{{Short description|Former newspaper in New South Wales, Australia}} {{italic title}}{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}}{{Use Australian English|date=July 2015}} {{For|the newspaper in Blackall and Barcaldine, Queensland|The Western Champion (Queensland)}} thumb|''Western Champion'', 7 January 1898. The '''''Western Champion''''' was a weekly English language newspaper published in Parkes, New South Wales, Australia.
==History== The town of Parkes had been served with many newspapers. The ''Western Champion'' began in 1893 and was published by M. J. Little.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article219099358 |title=The inky way |newspaper=The Forbes Advocate |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=11 July 1950 |access-date=17 February 2020 |page=3 |via=Trove }} </ref> The editor in the late 1890s was Gordon Tidy.
After 33 years as the proprietor, William Giles also acquired the ''Parkes Post'' by September 1932.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article113481757 |title=New company. |newspaper=Western Champion |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=22 September 1932 |access-date=17 February 2020 |page=10 |via=Trove }}</ref> Working from their separate offices, the ''Champion'' would publish on a Friday, and the ''Post'' on the Tuesday. It ceased in 1934 and merged with the ''Champion Post'' to form the ''Parkes Post''.<ref>{{cite web|title=SLNSW Catalogue|url=http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au/record=b1184934~S2|publisher=State Library of New South Wales|accessdate=9 August 2013}}</ref> The paper consisted mainly of advertising and news columns once a month.
Today the newspaper operates as the '''''Parkes Champion-Post'''''.
==Digitisation== The various versions of the paper have been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program<ref>{{cite web|title=Newspaper Digitisation Program|url=http://www.nla.gov.au/content/newspaper-digitisation-program|publisher=National Library of Australia|accessdate=22 August 2013|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> project hosted by the National Library of Australia.<ref>{{cite web|title=Trove Digitised Newspapers|url=http://www.nla.gov.au/content/newspaper-digitisation-program|publisher=National Library of Australia|accessdate=22 August 2013|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>
==See also== * List of newspapers in New South Wales * List of newspapers in Australia
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Trove newspaper|459|Western Champion|Parkes, NSW : 1898 - 1934}} * [https://www.parkeschampionpost.com.au/ Parkes Champion-Post newspaper]
==Bibliography== * ''Country conscience : a history of the New South Wales provincial press, 1841-1995'' / by Rod Kirkpatrick, Canberra City, A.C.T. : Infinite Harvest Publishing, 2000 * ''Looking good : the changing appearance of Australian newspapers'' / by Victor Isaacs, for the Australian Newspapers History Group, Middle Park, Qld. : Australian Newspaper History Group, 2007. * ''Press timeline : Select chronology of significant Australian press events to 2011'' / Compiled by Rod Kirkpatrick for the Australian Newspaper History Group * ''Australian Newspaper History : A Bibliography'' / Compiled by Victor Isaacs, Rod Kirkpatrick and John Russell, Middle Park, Qld. : Australian Newspaper History Group, 2004. * Newspapers in Australian libraries : a union list. 4th ed.
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