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This thesis examined the history of competition between two Rockhampton daily newspapers focusing predominantly on the influences exercised in reporting labour issues and industrial relations between 1891 and 1915, examining the influence by both owners, editors and local politicians alike on the way these issues were reported. The research was undertaken to improve current knowledge on press reporting of the labour movement through key events. The thesis addressed a specific timeframe with the same methodology applied to key events. The proposed methodology has arisen from a review of primary sources (newspapers) within set timeframes focused around key events and people. A case study of Rockhampton daily newspapers was undertaken during the period 1899 to 1915. This time period was chosen because it was a time of political unrest and labor party development. The general theme of industrial relations was selected to demonstrate the similarities and differences in how newspapers reported events to influence readers in order to explore the connection between press and politicians in greater details. In so doing, this thesis identifies the close connection between press and politicians, such as William Kidston and T.J Ryan over this turbulent period and is a comparative study of such seminal events as the 1899 shearers' strike, the 1911 sugar strike and the 1912 tramway and general strike. This thesis is a study in competition between two daily newspapers in the polemical tradition, encompassing an analysis of the Fourth Estate through the press -political nexus. This thesis proposes that the reporting of key events and people influenced the success of the labour movement in Queensland |
