{{Short description|Newspaper in Queensland, Australia}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}} {{italic title}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} The '''''Beaudesert Times''''' is a newspaper published in Beaudesert, Queensland, Australia.
==History== The newspaper was a result of the merger of two existing newspapers, ''The Beaudesert Despatch and Logan and Albert Leader'' and ''The Beaudesert Herald'' with politician Patrick James Leahy holding the controlling interest. John Adamson Walker and F. Parker had formerly run the Herald and they became manager and editor respectively of the new paper. After Parker left, Walker became the managing editor.<ref>{{Cite web|title = About Us: Beaudesert Times|url = http://www.beaudeserttimes.com.au/about-us/|website = www.beaudeserttimes.com.au|access-date = 2016-02-01|first = |last = |publisher = Fairfax Regional Media|archive-date = 14 July 2014|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140714145914/http://www.beaudeserttimes.com.au/about-us/|url-status = dead}}</ref> The first issue was published on 10 October 1908; it cost threepence.<ref name=bt>{{cite web|title=About us|url=http://www.beaudeserttimes.com.au/about-us/|website=Beaudesert Times|publisher=Beaudesert Times|accessdate=12 June 2014|archive-date=14 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714145914/http://www.beaudeserttimes.com.au/about-us/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=trove>{{Citation | title=The Beaudesert Times | publication-date=1908 | publisher=The Beaudesert Times|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/33692713 }}</ref>
In March 1967 it was renamed the Logan and Albert Times,<ref name=trove/> but returned to being the Beaudesert Times in 1985.<ref name=bt/>
In 2012, the newspaper was purchased by Fairfax Regional Media.<ref name=bt/>
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==External links== * {{official website|http://www.beaudeserttimes.com.au/}}
Category:Newspapers published in Queensland Category:Beaudesert, Queensland Category:1908 establishments in Australia Category:Newspapers established in 1908