<P> Australia's earliest newspaper, the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, was first printed in 1803 . In 1810 the second newspaper in Australia, the Derwent Star and Van Diemen's Land Intelligencer was founded in Van Diemen's Land, but ceased the same year . Victoria's first paper was the Melbourne Advertiser in 1838 . By the mid-1850s, there were 11 papers in Tasmania . The Tasmanian and Port Dalrymple Advertiser founded in Launceston in 1825 was the first provincial newspaper in Australia . </P> <P> Australia's longest - running newspaper, the Sydney Morning Herald, was first published as the Sydney Herald in 1831 . The Herald's rival, The Daily Telegraph, was first published in July 1879 . Weekly newspapers were an important feature of the Australian newspaper scene in the nineteenth century . </P> <P> Australia's first national daily newspaper, Daily Commercial News (now Lloyd's List Australia) was first published in April 1891 . Only during the second part of the twentieth century did other national newspapers start to be published . </P> <P> Australia's first foreign - language newspaper, Die Deutsche Post für die australischen Kolonien was published in Adelaide in 1848 . </P>

Who launched australia's first national daily newspaper