National Library of Australia

The Australian Newspaper Plan

newspapersThe 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.

Collect

Do you know the whereabouts of a missing newspaper?

Preserve

The overall aim of the ANPlan project is to preserve all Australian newspapers and to give the public access to them.

Access

ANPlan lets you access our newspaper heritage.

Partners

The Australian Newspaper Plan is a cooperative initiative of National and State Libraries Australasia involving:

  • National Library of Australia
  • Northern Territory Library
  • State Library of New South Wales
  • State Library of Queensland
  • State Library of South Australia
  • State Library of Tasmania
  • State Library of Victoria
  • State Library of Western Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory Heritage Library

The National Library of New Zealand is a full member of the Australian Newspaper Plan with observer status.

Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program

What's new

WANTED: Australia's missing newspapers

Cooperative Newspaper Microfilming 2009/10

For researchers

Have a look at what was making news on this day by viewing digitised historic Australian newspapers.

Australian Newspapers beta

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.