Missing home, need news?

You’re a homesick Irish backpacker yearning for some local Celtic content.  Read the latest Irish Times online at the State Library.  Whether on microfilm, newsprint or online, the State Library will give you access to a large array of newspapers, from neighbourhood to international, current or historic. See what’s going on in your home town. You’ll feel better.

                                                                                                                                                                      Most e-newspapers are available only within the  library.  register with the library to access and book library computers.  Access the database from our Electronic Resources e-Newspapers page.

All the Western Australian news that’s fit to print (or is that upload)!

You may have noticed some fanfare in the press about Fairfax’s new WA news site… This is only one of several sites specialising in Western Australian News.  For lots of News about WA you can go to:

• WAtoday.com.au - the new site from Fairfax
• thewest.com.au - the West Australian’s online site
• perthnow – “powered by the Sunday Times”
• ABC News – Western Australia
• WA Business News
• Online WA newspapers  – extensive listing in the National Library’s Australian Newspapers Online

(Print copies of the West Australian, Sunday Times and WA Business News are available at the State Library)

Need overseas or interstate news?  There’s much more online than Google News Australia!  Try the State Library’s subscription newspaper databases accessible in the Alexander Library Building, use your WA library card to log on to Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre via our Databases From Home, or find out what newspapers are available in Australian Libraries via the National Library of Australian Newspapers Online.