Il Giornale Italiano

Il Giornale Italiano (The Italian Journal) commenced publication on 19 March 1932.

Il Giornale Italiano had a wide circulation, with 8,000 copies sold each week.

Published weekly, from June 1938, Il Giornale Italiano included an English Section with its own separate masthead.

By the late 1920s, many thousands of Italian workers had immigrated to Australia.

According to Robert Pascoe, the style of language used in Il Giornale Italiano was "officious and uncompromisingly 'pure'… Dialects were…dismissed as obsolescent by the Mussolini government, so an insistence of Standard Italian in a stilted form was part of the purpose of such a newspaper".