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News Weekly
Cover of September 2020 issue
EditorPeter Kelleher
FrequencyFortnightly
PublisherNational Civic Council
Founded1941;83 years ago(1941)
(Former title:Freedom)
CountryAustralia
Based inBalwyn, Victoria
Websitenewsweekly.au

News Weeklyis an Australiancurrent affairsmagazine, published by theNational Civic Council,with its main headquarters inBalwyn, Victoria.[1][2]It also has offices in Queensland, New South Wales, Western Australia and South Australia.[3]

History and profile

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News Weeklywas founded byB. A. Santamariaand first published in September 1943, under the nameFreedom.It later changed its name toAustralia's national news-weekly,[3]and adopted its current name in 1946–47.[4][5][6][7]

News Weeklyadheres to the five primacies[8]of the National Civic Council: "natural family as the basic unit of society", decentralisation, "integrity of the individual", patriotism, and "Judeo-Christian virtues".[3]

According to theKempseyLibrary listing,News Weeklyprovides analysis of current cultural, social, political, educational, and economic trends in Australia, focusing onethics.[9]

In 1955, it had a circulation of 30,000 copies.[10]

Associated groups include the Thomas More Centre and theAustralian Family Association.[3]

Controversy and conflict with other political groups prevailed over time.[11][12][13]

Publication details

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  • Frequency: 25 issues per year.
  • Pages: 28
  • Pricing/Ordering: from $2/day to $120/year.[14]
  • Delivery/Distribution: worldwide.[15]

The editor is Peter Kelleher and the publisher is Freedom Publishing Company Pty Ltd.

  • Microform:Santamaria, B. A. (Bartholomew Augustine), 1915-1998 (1965),News weekly,Freedom Publishing Company,ISSN0726-7304{{citation}}:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  • Online:News weekly: independent opinion for independent minds,Freedom Publishing Company Proprietary Limited, 1986,ISSN2209-4415
  • Printed:Santamaria, B. A. (Bartholomew Augustine), 1915-1998 (1965),News weekly,Freedom Publishing Company,ISSN0726-7304{{citation}}:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

References

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  1. ^Europa World Year.Taylor & Francis Group. 2004.ISBN9781857432541.Retrieved20 January2012.
  2. ^"Contact News Weekly".News Weekly.Archived fromthe originalon 9 February 2012.Retrieved20 January2012.
  3. ^abcd"News Weekly and the National Civic Council".News Weekly.Archived fromthe originalon 9 February 2012.Retrieved20 January2012.
  4. ^Thomas Sheridan (1975).Mindful militants: the Amalgamated Engineering Union in Australia, 1920–1972.ISBN0-521-20680-4.Retrieved20 January2012.
  5. ^Ross Fitzgerald; Adam James Carr; William J. Dealy (2003).The Pope's battalions: Santamaria, Catholicism and the Labor split.Univ. of Queensland Press.ISBN9780702233890.Retrieved20 January2012.
  6. ^"Freedom".National Library of Australia.Retrieved20 January2012.
  7. ^National Civic Council; Santamaria, B.A. (Bartholomew Augustine), 1915-1998,Freedom, then Freedom: Australia's national news-weekly, then Australia's national news-weekly, then News weekly,retrieved16 February2021{{citation}}:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^"What We Stand For - News Weekly".National Civic Council.Archived fromthe originalon 8 June 2021.Retrieved8 June2021.
  9. ^Australian Newspaperson kempsey.nsw.gov.au
  10. ^Hughes, Robin (23 April 1997)."Australian Biography: Bob Santamaria".National Film and Sound Archive.Retrieved20 February2022.
  11. ^Reprint from "News - Weekly": Red Plot to Split Allies, 1947,Trove, 1947,retrieved16 February2021
  12. ^"News Weekly Concoction".Tribune.No. 1039. New South Wales, Australia. 5 March 1958. p. 2.Retrieved16 February2021– via National Library of Australia.
  13. ^"News Weekly".The Australian Jewish News.Vol. 55, no. 54. Victoria, Australia. 15 September 1989. p. 17.Retrieved16 February2021– via National Library of Australia.
  14. ^"Subscribe - News Weekly".National Civic Council.Archived fromthe originalon 6 March 2023.
  15. ^"News Weekly 1-year - Digital & Print".National Civic Council.Retrieved8 June2021.
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