Australian Newspaper (Tharunka)

History

Tharunka was the student newspaper of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, published by the UNSW Students' Union from 1953 onward. The paper served as a forum for student journalism, campus politics, counter-cultural opinion, and investigative reporting that fell outside the scope of mainstream commercial media.

The archive holds clippings from 1957 to 2003, a span that covers nearly five decades of Australian UFO discourse from multiple angles. As a student publication, Tharunka approached the UFO subject differently from commercial newspapers, reflecting the shifting intellectual currents of each era, from Cold War anxieties through the counter-culture period to the post-X-Files revival of public interest.