Breaking the News is a 1912 Australian melodrama film directed by W. J. Lincoln based on John Longstaff's 1887 painting of the same name.

According to Table Talk "The story deals with life in a mining centre in Australia, the play opening with the rescue of Roberts by a party of prospectors after he has been deserted by his mate, who clears off with the gold.

The false mate decides to do away with him, and knocks him on the head when below, and in seeking a'place to bury him strikes water and floods the mine.

"[15] The Launceston Examiner said the film was "of great length, but never lacking in interest, is a remarkably realistic Australian mining story, embodying some of the most thrilling situations conceived in dramatic form.

A power ful plot, abounding in exciting incidents, deals with life in the mining fields, which are clearly depicted as the environnient in which the film has been enacted.