Westralian Worker

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title: "Westralian Worker" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["newspapers-established-in-1900", "1900-establishments-in-australia", "publications-disestablished-in-1951", "1951-disestablishments-in-australia", "westralian-worker"] description: "Newspaper in Western Australia" topic_path: "geography/australia" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westralian_Worker" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Newspaper in Western Australia ::

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Field	Value
name	Westralian Worker
logo	Westralian Worker.png
logo_alt	Westralian Worker logo, as published in the 1 January 1943 issue
type	Weekly
owner
founded
political_position	Western Australian Labor Party
language	English
ceased_publication
publishing_country	Australia
publishing_city	Kalgoorlie, Western Australia (until 1912)
Perth, Western Australia
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History

It was established as the Official organ of the Western Australian Labor Party – with the subtitle of "A journal devoted to the interest of trade unionism, co-operation and labour in politics".

In April 1912 it was moved to Perth and was published by the Westralian Worker Printing and Publishing Company. In 1915 the Worker and People's Printing and Publishing Company amalgamated. The company also published union books and pamphlets as well as the Westralian Worker.

The company was involved in broadcasting with interest in the Perth radio station 6KY.

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The newspaper attempted to balance views between conscriptionists and anti-conscriptionists in World War I, but eventually became a mouthpiece for the anti-conscriptionists.

The editorial policy included tackling perceived biases of other Western Australian newspapers.

The newspaper was based in Holman House. The newspaper ceased publication in 1951.

Notable editors

• Thomas Bath (1901–1902)
• Wallace Nelson (1902–1903)
• Julian Stuart (1903)
• John Curtin (1917–1928)
• Fred Gates (1928–1937)

Publishing details

• Vol. 1, no. 1 (7 Sept. 1900)-no. 2219 (Friday, 22 June 1951)

Notes

References

1. "Records of the Australian Labor Party WA Branch".
2. ""Westralian worker" and the AWU".
3. "Records".
4. "Collection of miscellaneous political and trade union pamphlets printed by the Westralian Worker press c.1920–1950". Westralian Worker.
5. (8 August 1941). "Westralian Worker and 6KY". Westralian Worker.
6. "Lovers of Australia: a series of talks sponsored by the W.A. State Executive Australian Labor Party & broadcast over Radio 6KY. Perth, WA ALP, 1942".
7. Corr, Robert. "Sitting on the rail: the Westralian worker in wartime".
8. (22 July 1949). "What The "Miner" Doesn't Print!". Westralian Worker.
9. [https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20140513213300/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/24883/20140514-0733/john.curtin.edu.au/journalist/workerb.html ] {{cbignore
10. (22 June 1951). "New 'Worker' Next Week". Westralian Worker.
11. (22 June 1951). "The Worker To Close". [[Daily News (Perth, Western Australia).
12. (27 June 1951). ""Worker" Closes Down". [[Kalgoorlie Miner]].
13. (January 2000). "Westralian Worker Editor – Cigarette Box presented by ''Worker'' Staff to John Curtin".
14. "The Westralian worker". Milsons Point, W. & F. Pascoe Pty. Ltd.
15. http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/title/741 online form details

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