Australian Newspaper (The Newcastle Sun)
Australian newspaper archive
History
The Newcastle Sun was an afternoon daily newspaper serving Newcastle and the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales. Published from 1918 to 1955, it competed with the Newcastle Morning Herald for the city's readership and carried a strong focus on local industrial, maritime, and community news. Newcastle's role as a major steel and coal city gave the paper a blue-collar readership distinct from the Sydney press.
The archive's clippings cover 1947 to 1954, the peak years of Australia's early flying saucer reports. The Hunter Valley's industrial corridor, RAAF base at Williamtown, and coastal shipping lanes all generated sighting reports that The Newcastle Sun covered alongside wire service stories from interstate and overseas.
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23 articles catalogued, grouped by issue
