Matter of taste and political orientation. It is the oldest surviving foreign language paper in Australia. The first issue came out on 30 April 1892 and a copy is still available in the Mitchell Library. The founder of the Courrier Australian was a Polish emigre, M. de Wrobleski.
The Courrier Australian reported the visit of M. Sestier, representing the Brothers Lumiere. M. Sestier projected one of the first motion pictures in Australia on 26 September 1896, with a French-made camera. Also reported was the visit of M. Guillaux who gave demonstrations in his plane in Newcastle in May 1914. M.Guillaux also accomplished the first mail flight on 16 July 1914, covering 931 kilometres in nine hours and fifteen minutes, between Sydney and Melbourne. The flight was the longuest on in the Southern Hemisphere and also the longuest air mail flight in the word at the time. M. Sourdin was for a long time at the helm of this paper. In the past three years, The Courrier Australian has much improved.
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