The Port Denison Times was a weekly newspaper published in Bowen, Queensland, Australia.
The newspaper was first published in Bowen on 5 March 1864 until 25 August 1900 as the Port Denison Times and Kennedy District Advertiser.
[3][4] Frederick Thomas Rayner (c. 1835–1900) was the founder and first editor of the "Times", the first newspaper published in tropical Queensland, and for a time Australia's most northerly publication.
[5] It was at the Port Denison Times that James Smith Reid got his start in the newspaper business.
Alexander Vindex Vennard who later wrote under the name of 'Bill Bowyang' undertook his apprenticeship with the paper before its demise.