The Sunday Independent (also known as The Independent) was a Western Australian weekly newspaper owned by mining entrepreneurs Lang Hancock and Peter Wright,[2][3] printed and published in the Perth suburb of East Victoria Park.
[1] The paper was launched on 27 April 1969 as a Sunday-only publication, under the banner The Independent.
Circulation was claimed to be 80,000 copies at its peak,[5] however it never seriously challenged that of its rival, the well established The Sunday Times.
In 1973 it ran as a daily for four weeks, as The Independent Sun, in direct competition with The West Australian.
[7] By 1979 the Sunday Independent became one of the first Australian newspapers to integrate its composing, editorial and classified advertising production via computer, using software developed in-house.