The Queanbeyan Age

It was named due to the short-lived Kiandra goldrush, which generated large amounts of gold-based traffic through the region.

Its weekly coverage includes politics, the courts, council, sport, community, health, environment, police and the emergency services.

A free edition of the Age will be published weekly from Tuesday 16 August 2016.

Staff of the paper includes its editor Kimberley Le Lievre and sports journalist Gemma Varcoe (as of March 2016).

[1] During the period 31 August 1867 until 16 October 1867, the Queanbeyan Age ran a second publication called The Braidwood Independent, which was a semi-weekly English language newspaper published by John Gale in Braidwood, New South Wales.

The Canberra Times building in Fyshwick will be the new base for Age staff.

Sculpture of John Gale holding a rolled copy of The Queanbeyan Age
The Braidwood Independent , 31 August 1867