Explore more than 730 influential Australian news sources from every state and territory covering the 1980s to the present day. Fully searchable text includes articles, editorials, obituaries, classifieds and more. Includes The Age (1991— ), Herald Sun (1999— ), The Australian (1998— ), Australian Financial Review (1987— ) and many local newspapers and news websites.
Coverage varies between titles. Mostly text only. Full-image format available for recent major newspapers.
Note: download limits apply.
Spotlight Discover more about this resource in our Online Collection Spotlight: Access Australia by NewsBank blog post.
Browse complete newspaper content including ads and images, usually up to today’s edition.
Browse international and Australian coverage of full-text news and journal articles on a wide range of topics across all subjects, plus encyclopaedias and reference ebooks.
Search Australian magazines, journals and newspapers on all topics including public affairs, law, education, business, engineering, health, families and humanities.
Search full-text scholarly journals on all subjects published from 1700 up until 1–5 years ago. Articles published before 1923 in United States journals, or before 1870 elsewhere, are freely accessible.
View the complete content of over 7,000 current newspapers and popular magazines from 97 countries, including ads, images and tables. Access is usually to the last 3 months of issues, but coverage varies.
PressReader now has interactive puzzles available on the platform. There are several challenges available including: codeword (matching letters to numbers on a crossword-like grid), concise and cryptic crosswords, sudoku in easy, medium and hard levels, wordsearch, and more! A new puzzle is added to each category every day, so you'll never run out.
To access puzzles on PressReader, simply click the Access database button above and login with your State Library membership; on the PressReader catalogue page, just scroll down - you'll find the Puzzles listed beneath Newspapers and Magazines.
And if you create and sign in with a free PressReader account, the system will keep track of the puzzles you've completed and how long each took so you can challenge yourself to improve over time.
Happy puzzling!
Please note: The Library Card (Library or Group) Sign In feature is not available on the State Library's subscription.
