Notable contributors included Virginia Fraser, Ron Cobb,, Bob Daly, Beatrice Faust, Ponch Hawkes, Helen Garner, Michael Leunig, Hall Greenland, Anne Summers, Wendy Bacon, Neil McLean, Patrick Cook and Phil Pinder.
The paper had headquarters in Carlton, Victoria, and in Glebe, NSW[1] With Frazer as the common thread, The Digger was produced by a frequently changing collective—including Bruce Hanford, Helen Garner, Ponch Hawkes, Jenny (Jewel) Brown, Colin Talbot, Garrie Hutchinson, Virginia Fraser, Hall Greenland,[2] Grant Evans, Kate Jennings, Isabelle Rosenberg, Sandra Zurbo, and Michael Zerman — until December 1975, when it folded under the weight of too little money and too many lawsuits: a libel suit from Builders Labourers union boss Norm Gallagher, another filed by the head of the South Australian Police, and an obscenity case brought by the State of Victoria for Helen Garner's article describing a sex-education class.
Frazer's blog coorabellridge.com includes posts of articles and graphics from The Digger archive, and 100 commentaries he wrote in the Byron Echo on his return after 40 years in the US.
In October 1972 Helen Garner wrote (anonymously) an article for The Digger in which she chronicled a spontaneous sex education lesson she gave to her 13-year-old students while working as a teacher at Fitzroy High School.
In the article, Garner said that she had intended to give a lesson on Ancient Greek art but the textbooks given to her students had been defaced with sexually explicit imagery.