Table Tops

Table Tops was a free daily newspaper produced for Australian Army personnel, published in the Atherton Tableland Training Area in Queensland, Australia,[1] with regional editions produced abroad for serving personnel.

Table Tops was produced by the staff of the AIF News, who were part of the First Australian Army Printing and Press Unit.

These were produced in camps, with mobile generators and truck-mounted printing equipment.

[7] News was collected by listening to short-wave radio broadcasts from India, Hawaii, the BBC and Australia.

[8] These regional editions were produced at places such as Morotai in the Maluku Islands, and in Balikpapan and Brunei in Borneo.