John Pascoe Fawkner John Pascoe Fawkner i(A134512 works by) (Organisation) assertion (a.k.a. John Fawkner; J. P. Fawkner)
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1 5 y separately published work icon Geelong Advertiser Geelong Advertiser and Squatters' Advocate; The Geelong Advertiser; The Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer James Harrison (editor), Geelong North : John Pascoe Fawkner J. Harrison , 1840 Z1168422 1840 newspaper (301 issues)
1 4 y separately published work icon Port Phillip Patriot and Melbourne Advertiser William Kerr (editor), John Pascoe Fawkner (editor), 1839 Melbourne : John Pascoe Fawkner , 1839-1845 Z1558486 1839 newspaper (15 issues)
1 7 y separately published work icon The Melbourne Advertiser 1838 Port Phillip : John Pascoe Fawkner , 1838 Z1911739 1838 newspaper 'The first attempt at newspaper literature in Melbourne was made by Mr. John Pascoe Fawkner, on the 1st January, 1838. The pioneer journal, which had been named the Melbourne Advertiser, consisted of a sheet of foolscap in manuscript, and there were 32 copies of it circulated. For nine weeks this tedious process of diffusing intelligence was continued, and by that time the proprietor managed to obtain some old type and other requisites from Hobart Town, which enable him to publish his journal in letter-press ...

'Unfortunately, however, Mr. Fawkner had not complied with the stringent condition of the Press laws then in force, and his publication was temporarily suppressed. Before he could go through the necessary forms to enable the Advertiser to be republished, Mr. George Arden entered the field with the Port Philip Gazette; and when Mr. Fawkner's paper reappeared, under the name of the Port Phillip Patriot, the attitude of the two journals towards one another might have served Charles Dickens for a model, when, years afterwards, he described the proceedings of the two Eatanswill papers. (p.28).

Source: Gordon & Gotch, Australasian Newspaper Directory (1888): 28.
1 1 y separately published work icon Launceston Advertiser The Launceston Advertiser John Pascoe Fawkner (editor), Henry Dowling (editor), 1829 Launceston : John Pascoe Fawkner , 1829-1831 Z1769370 1829 newspaper (1 issues)

John Fawkner used the Launceston Advertiser 'as "the active and avowed friend of the emancipist class in Van Diemen's Land, dealing heavy and repeated blows upon officialdom and the reputed respectable class in the island". He attacked capital punishment in a colony that valued "a man's life at less than a sheep", and made forceful remarks on cruelty to assigned servants.'

Henry Dowling, who had worked on the newspaper, became editor and publisher in 1831.

During his time with the newspaper Dowling relinquished the proprietorship but continued his involvement with the newspaper, 'the cares and labours of a journalist', until the paper's cessation on the last day of December 1846.

Sources: Hugh Anderson, 'Fawkner, John Pascoe (1792 - 1869)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, Melbourne University Press, 1966, pp 368-370; Isabella J. Mead, 'Dowling, Henry (1810 - 1885)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, Melbourne University Press, 1966, pp 316-317 (sighted online 30/03/2011); [Henry Dowling], 'Our Farewell', Launceston Advertiser (31 December 1846): 2-3.
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