Stevenson edited the South Australian Register with an aggressive outspokenness, and continued this approach in his new title.
The earlier spirited inter-press debate continued with this fourth major newspaper, alongside the Register, South Australian, and Adelaide Times.
The newspaper was forced to close in 1852 due to the lack of labour and cash brought by the exodus of men to the Victorian goldfields.
[1]Volume 1, number 1 of the South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register was published on Saturday, 5 July 1845.
[3] Volume III number 119 of the South Australian Gazette and Mining Journal was published the following Saturday, 9 October 1847.