# Table Tops

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{{Short description|Former newspaper in Australia}}
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{{other uses|Tabletop (disambiguation)}}
{{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}}
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thumb|200px|right|Front cover of ''Table Tops'', issue 103, dated 14 September 1945.
'''''Table Tops''''' was a free daily [newspaper](/source/newspaper) produced for [Australian Army personnel](/source/Second_Australian_Imperial_Force), published in the [Atherton Tableland](/source/Atherton_Tableland) Training Area in [Queensland](/source/Queensland), Australia,<ref name= "PANPA">{{cite web| title= Provincial publishing proliferated in Australia's colonial era| publisher= PANPA| url= https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv/UQ:9460/rk_panpa_0705.pdf| accessdate= 2008-12-04| archive-date= 30 September 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110930074157/https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv/UQ:9460/rk_panpa_0705.pdf| url-status= live}}</ref> with regional editions produced abroad for serving personnel.

''Table Tops'' was produced by the staff of the ''[AIF News](/source/AIF_News)'', who were part of the First Australian Army Printing and Press Unit.<ref>Caption on Australian War Memorial photograph 052478</ref> The newspaper was produced seven days a week: weekday and Saturday editions were four pages long while Sunday editions were eight pages. The pages were [demy quarto](/source/Quarto_(text)) size. Occasional special editions were produced in addition to the daily editions.<ref>Caption on Australian War Memorial photograph 052471</ref>  It contained news on the progress of the war, as well as home news such as current events in Australia and sport results.

It was published in [Atherton](/source/Atherton%2C_Queensland) during the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War), where it was typeset on [Linotype machine](/source/Linotype_machine)s<ref>Caption on Australian War Memorial photograph 052475</ref> and then printed on an old Wharfedale printing press on overnight print runs so that the paper was ready to be sent to units for breakfast.<ref>Caption on Australian War Memorial photograph 052476</ref> During the Second World War, the editor of ''Table Tops'' was Major C. H. Cheong.<ref>Caption on Australian War Memorial photograph 052481</ref>

Regional editions were produced abroad for serving personnel.  These were produced in camps, with mobile generators and truck-mounted printing equipment.<ref>Caption on Australian War Memorial photograph 119998</ref>  News was collected by listening to [short-wave radio](/source/short-wave_radio) broadcasts from [India](/source/India), [Hawaii](/source/Hawaii), the [BBC](/source/BBC) and [Australia](/source/Australia).<ref>Caption on Australian War Memorial photograph 124152</ref>   These regional editions were produced at places such as [Morotai](/source/Morotai) in the [Maluku Islands](/source/Maluku_Islands), and in [Balikpapan](/source/Balikpapan) and [Brunei](/source/Brunei) in [Borneo](/source/Borneo).

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://cas.awm.gov.au/TST2/cst.acct_master?surl=848306923ZZZQTDAQNYNPW04843&stype=5&simplesearch=&v_umo=&v_product_id=&screen_name=&screen_parms=&screen_type=RIGHT&bvers=4&bplatform=Microsoft%20Internet%20Explorer&bos=Win32 Australian War Memorial collections search page for viewing the photographs referenced above]

Category:Defunct newspapers published in Queensland
Category:Australian Army
Category:Atherton, Queensland
Category:Daily newspapers published in Australia
Category:Military newspapers published in Australia
Category:Defunct daily newspapers

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