Port Phillip Gazette

He returned in October that year with printer Thomas Strode, and they launched the Port Phillip Gazette, proclaiming an aim to "assist the enquiring, animate the struggling, and sympathise with all."

From May–June 1842 Augustus Greeves edited the Port Phillip Gazette while Arden was absent but next year retired from the staff and entered politics, becoming mayor in 1849.

[3] Though Arden was a competent writer, his youth and indiscretion led him to criticise the administration of Melbourne's first police magistrate William Lonsdale and resulted in conflict with Judge John Walpole Willis for which he was defendant in the first civil libel case in the colony; George Cavanagh, editor of the Port Phillip Herald,[4] offered surety for Arden when Willis sent him to gaol.

The Gazette was next edited and published by the Scottish-born Thomas McCombie, who became editor and part proprietor in 1844 and until 1851 when his political interests had come to dominate.

"[6][7] The Presbyterian clergyman James Forbes expressed his views on politics and education in the paper before starting his own Port Phillip Christian Herald.

The title Port Phillip Gazette, deliberately archaic and with a correspondingly vintage copperplate-style masthead,[9] was revived for a literary quarterly in 1952.

"[24] Asserting the magazine's independence, the inaugural editorial declared In addition to reviews of theatrical and arts events, articles, poetry and short stories were also accepted.

The fourth issue contained a short story by David Martin, an article by Gordon Gow on television in the United Kingdom (before it had been introduced in Australia), a Vincent Buckley critique of some Bulletin poets, some notes on America under the heading "Behind the Cellophane Curtain," by Neil Clerehan, "Capital Punishment", dealing with affairs in Canberra, particularly the Senator Kennelly incident in the Labor party, and the supposedly dark sources of some A.L.P.

1: "It is gratifying to find that this ominously intelligent little Australian quarterly, with its occasional reminder of The New Yorker (which it resembles on the scale of a Peruvian shrunken head), has survived its first year, a period during which most of its kind in Australia generally expire.

The current issue, on the contrary, is very much alive, with short stories, humor, critical reviews of paintings, plays, books and films, and a ferocious attack on contemporary values in Australian poetry.