Issue Details: First known date: 1867... 1867 South Australian Satirist
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'The lamentably abject condition of the daily Press of South Australia, its want of political principle, its hypocritical fear and timorousness, has forced upon the proprietors of the Satirist the palpable necessity of launching forth upon the unimpassioned waters of honesty, truth, and fearless independence, a journal whose aim shall be to guide, not truckle to, the public opinion of this colony. ...

'What, then, is the demand of the hour? To find and to sustain a fearless advocate of the people's rights and requirements, one who will dare to speak and teach the truth ...'

Source: 'Prospectus.' South Australian Satirist (27 July 1867): 2

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First known date: 1867

Works about this Work

Topics of the Week : The Law of Libel 1868 single work column
— Appears in: The Australasian , 30 May vol. 4 no. 113 (New Series) 1868; (p. 690)

The Australasian reflects on two cases of libel – one in New Zealand and one in South Australia. It believes that in the former case, a newspaper simply reported on 'the public proceedings of a public body' and subsequently suffered 'heavy damages' and 'still heavier law costs'. In the case of the latter, the Australasian believes the penalty – 'one year's imprisonment with hard labour' – was justified as the proprietor of the South Australian Satirist had perpetrated a 'gross falsehood ... apparently, without the slightest foundation'.

Topics of the Week : The Law of Libel 1868 single work column
— Appears in: The Australasian , 30 May vol. 4 no. 113 (New Series) 1868; (p. 690)

The Australasian reflects on two cases of libel – one in New Zealand and one in South Australia. It believes that in the former case, a newspaper simply reported on 'the public proceedings of a public body' and subsequently suffered 'heavy damages' and 'still heavier law costs'. In the case of the latter, the Australasian believes the penalty – 'one year's imprisonment with hard labour' – was justified as the proprietor of the South Australian Satirist had perpetrated a 'gross falsehood ... apparently, without the slightest foundation'.

PeriodicalNewspaper Details

Subtitle:
A Weekly Review of Politics, Principles and General News, and the Special Organ of the Drama, Music, Sporting and the Sciences
Frequency:
Weekly
Range:
27 July 1867 - 18 April 1868
Size:
56cm
Note:
For further, detailed information, see the SA Memory website: http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=61&c=7518
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