Melbourne Advertiser

Ten hand-written weekly editions were published before Fawkner acquired a wooden press and some metal fount from Launceston.

[2] After printing a further seventeen issues he was forced by law to cease publication because he had failed to register the newspaper.

Images and transcripts of 16 issues of the Melbourne Advertiser (1838) are available freely online, via the State Library of Victoria.

[5] Issues published during 1845–1848, when it was known as the Port Phillip Patriot and Morning Advertiser, are also available freely online, via Trove.

[6] Issues of The Melbourne Daily News and Port Phillip Patriot are available freely online, via Trove.

Headquarters of the Port Phillip Patriot and Melbourne Advertiser next to Fawker's former hotel (c. 1846-1848) from State Library Victoria pictures collection.