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The Border Watch is an Australian newspaper based in Mount Gambier, South Australia, [2] as of October 2020 owned by TBW Today Pty Ltd. [3] The paper services Mount Gambier, the South Australian Limestone Coast, and parts of Western Victoria. It is the oldest and largest regional newspaper in South Australia.
The Border Watch: Mount Gambier: 5,803 115 $1.20 Border Watch Pty Ltd Murray Pioneer, The: Renmark, Riverland, Northern Mallee 5,550 $1.40 Murray Pioneer group [3] Port Lincoln Times: Port Lincoln: 4,639 153 $1.70 Fairfax Regional Media Northern Argus: Balaklava, Burra, Clare, Jamestown, Peterborough, Riverton: 3,814 [4] $1.50 Transcontinental, The
Mount Gambier is the second most populated city in South Australia, with a population of 31,308 as of the 2021 census.The city is located on the slopes of Mount Gambier, a volcano in the south east of the state, about 450 kilometres (280 mi) south-east of the capital Adelaide and just 17 kilometres (11 mi) from the Victorian border.
Starting in 1851, he purchased over 50,000 freehold acres in the Hundreds of Benara and Blanche, between Mount Gambier and Port MacDonnell and 34 square miles of leasehold land, where he ran some 73,000 sheep, [6] He purchased the remainder of Benara (originally spelled Benaira) and an adjacent station, Coola comprising 22,000 acres of freehold ...
The widowed Janet Laurie and her four sons moved to Gambierton (now Mount Gambier) and set about founding a newspaper, The Border Watch, whose first issue came out on 26 April 1861 as a 4-page, single broadsheet weekly. John Watson (ca.1842 – 13 December 1925), another Scotsman and later Mount Gambier's first mayor, joined in 1863 as editor ...
Under the supervision of The Border Watch, it was published every Wednesday [8] and its head office (for local advertising and editorial content) was at 81 Commercial Street East, Mount Gambier. [5] The newspaper ceased publication for 18 months in 2020-2022 due to financial difficulties but was successfully relaunched.
Earlier in the campaign, the Border Watch conducted a "straw poll" of 100 local voters – presumably conducted at the Mount Gambier Arms just before closing time – which failed to get an answer out of 51 of them. Of the remainder, 23 backed Rory McEwen against 11 for Labor and 10 for Liberal.
In 1864, the cave was reportedly explored by four men in a canoe. In 1933, their story was told to the Mount Gambier newspaper, The Border Watch, by one of the participants, Charles Grosser who was aged seven years in 1864.