Daily News (Perth, Western Australia)

One of the early newspapers of the Western Australian colony was The Inquirer, established by Francis Lochee and William Tanner on 5 August 1840.

Lochee became sole proprietor and editor in 1843 until May 1847 when he sold the operation to the paper's former compositor Edmund Stirling.

[4] Competition from television evening news resulted in losses in circulation and eventual cessation of most Australian afternoon newspapers.

In 1986, Holmes à Court sold the Daily News to a small company headed by businessman Simon Hadfield.

[7][8] The Government of Western Australia legislated to retrospectively place the Daily News beyond the jurisdiction of the (federal) Trade Practices Commission—a move which the Liberal Opposition condemned as prejudicial to Commonwealth-State relations.

In November 1893, William John Hardy joined the Daily News as the first pictorial engraver in the state.