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The Advocate Newspaper Information

The Advocate is a local newspaper of Burnie, Tasmania, Australia. Its readership covers the North West Coast and West Coast of Tasmania, including towns such as Ulverstone, Devonport, Penguin, Wynyard, Latrobe and Smithton. It is currently published by Fairfax Media.

On Wednesday 1 October 1890 Robert Harris and his sons, Robert and Charles published the first issue of The Wellington Times, Burnie’s first newspaper. It was named after the county in which Burnie and Emu Bay were located and was first published only on Wednesdays and Saturdays. With a circulation around 2000 its four broadsheet pages cost 1.5 d.