Brisbane Times is an Internet

Internet

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-based news site for Brisbane

Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

 and Queensland

Queensland

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, Australia

Australia

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. It was launched on 7 March 2007 by then-Queensland Premier Peter Beattie

Peter Beattie

Peter Douglas Beattie , Australian politician, was the 36th Premier of the Australian state of Queensland for nine years and leader of the Australian Labor Party in that state for eleven and a half years...

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It is owned and run by Fairfax Digital, the online subsidiary of Fairfax Media

Fairfax Media

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, publishers of Melbourne

Melbourne

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's The Age

The Age

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, The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald

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and other mastheads, plus subject-focused websites and business-centered magazine titles. The founding managing editor was Mitchell Murphy; the current managing editor is Conal Hanna.

The publication started with 14 journalists in an attempt by Fairfax to break into the South East Queensland market, competing against the website of News Corporation

News Corporation

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's incumbent The Courier-Mail

The Courier-Mail

The Courier-Mail is a daily newspaper published in Brisbane, Australia. Owned by News Limited, it is published daily from Monday to Saturday in tabloid format. Its editorial offices are located at Bowen Hills, in Brisbane's inner northern suburbs, and it is printed at Murarrie, in Brisbane's...

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