The Daily Telegraph (Australia)

The Daily Telegraph (Australia)

The Daily Telegraph is a conservative Australian tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, by Nationwide News, part of News Corporation. The Tele, as it is also known, was founded in 1879. From 1936 to 1972, it was owned by Frank Packer's Australian Consolidated Press. That year it was sold to News Limited. In 1990, it merged with its afternoon sister paper The Daily Mirror to form The Daily Telegraph-Mirror with morning and afternoon editions although the afternoon editions were later discontinued.

The new paper continued in this vein until January 1996 when reader pressure for a shorter title caused the name of the paper to revert to The Daily Telegraph, despite staff concerns that former Mirror readers would now feel disenfranchised. The circulation of the newspaper in the first half of 2004 was around 409,000 per day, the largest of a Sydney newspaper.

The Daily Telegraph is available from retailers (newsagents, supermarkets, petrol stations, convenience stores, mixed business general stores, etc.) in Sydney, regional areas of New South Wales (excluding some towns near the state borders of Victoria, South Australia and Queensland), Canberra and South East Queensland (Brisbane, Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast). On 19 November 2010, The Daily Telegraph released their iPad application enabling users to view a custom version of the website.