The Australian Newspaper Plan is an ambitious, ongoing project designed to collect and preserve every newspaper published in Australia, guaranteeing public access to these important historical records. There are similar plans for New Zealand's newspapers.
Do you know the whereabouts of a missing newspaper?
The overall aim of the ANPlan project is to preserve all Australian newspapers and to give the public access to them.
ANPlan lets you access our newspaper heritage.
The Australian Newspaper Plan is a cooperative initiative of National and State Libraries Australasia involving:
The National Library of New Zealand is a full member of the Australian Newspaper Plan with observer status.
Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program
Cooperative Newspaper Microfilming 2008/9
Have a look at what was making news on this day by viewing digitised historic Australian newspapers.
Find out about the history of Australian newspapers or about the significant events in the world of Australian newspapers between 1802 and 2005 by looking at the Newspaper Chronology.