History: The Gazette has long been at the forefront of local news

By Michelle Nichols, Hawkesbury Family History Group
Updated July 10 2020 - 4:00pm, first published 2:49pm
Front page of the first issue of the Windsor & Richmond Gazette dated July 21, 1888. Picture: Courtesy of Trove.
Front page of the first issue of the Windsor & Richmond Gazette dated July 21, 1888. Picture: Courtesy of Trove.

The first newspaper published in Australia was the Sydney Gazette which appeared in 1803, and for the first few years of the penal settlement, it was the only regular source recording events.