Empire (newspaper)

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title: "Empire (newspaper)" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1850-establishments-in-australia", "newspapers-established-in-1850", "newspapers-disestablished-in-1875", "defunct-newspapers-published-in-sydney", "1875-disestablishments-in-australia", "newspapers-on-trove", "defunct-daily-newspapers"] description: "Defunct newspaper published in Sydney, New South, Wales, Australia" topic_path: "geography/australia" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_(newspaper)" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Defunct newspaper published in Sydney, New South, Wales, Australia ::

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Field	Value
name	Empire
image	Empire 28 Dec 1850.PNG
image_size	250
caption	Front cover of first issue of the Empire, 28 December 1850
type	Daily
format	Broadsheet
owners
founder	Henry Parkes
founded
language	English
ceased_publication
publishing_city	Sydney
publishing_country	Australia
sister_newspapers	The Evening News
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The Empire was a newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, in colonial Australia. It was published from 28 December 1850 to 14 February 1875, except for the period from 28 August 1858 to 23 May 1859, when publication was suspended. It was later absorbed by The Evening News.

History

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Henry Parkes founded the Empire and was its editor/proprietor until the business failed in August 1858.{{cite Australian Dictionary of Biography | first=A. W. | last=Martin | title=Parkes, Sir Henry (1815–96) |id2=parkes-sir-henry-4366 | access-date = 13 October 2012}} He made it "a newspaper destined to be the chief organ of mid-century liberalism and to serve as the rallying and reconciliation point for the sharpest radical and liberal minds of the day".

The paper was bought by Samuel Bennett and William Hanson and resumed publication in May 1859 with the promise that "The Empire … will continue under the new management to advocate the same great principles by which it has hitherto been distinguished". In 1875, labour difficulties forced Bennett to merge the Empire with another of his papers, the Evening News.

Digitisation

The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project of the National Library of Australia.

References

References

1. [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn393719 National Library of Australia] {{Webarchive. link. (23 February 2024 accessed 13 October 2012)
2. Bryce, Merilyn J.. "Bennett, Samuel (1815–1878)".
3. Isaacs, Victor. (2003). "Two hundred years of Sydney newspapers: a short history". Rural Press.
4. "Newspaper and magazine titles". National Library of Australia.
5. "Newspaper Digitisation Program". National Library of Australia.
6. Brown, Jerelynn. (2011). "Tabloids in the State Library of NSW collection: A reflection of life in Australia". Australian Journal of Communication.

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