The Community Newspaper Group is a community newspaper business in Perth, Western Australia

Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

, Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

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It publishes seventeen community newspapers within the metropolitan region of Perth.

The range includes Yanchep and Two Rocks in the city's north to Mandurah in the south. Editions include the regional areas Northam

Northam, Western Australia

Northam is a town in Western Australia, situated at the confluence of the Avon and Mortlock Rivers, about north-east of Perth in the Avon Valley. At the 2006 census, Northam had a population of 6,009. Northam is the largest town in the Avon region...

, Toodyay and York

York

York is a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence...

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The Group's papers are:

• Bullsbrook/Bindoon Advocate
• Canning Times
• Comment News
• Guardian Express
• Fremantle/Cockburn Gazette
• Eastern Reporter
• Ellenbrook/Swan Valley Advocate
• Hills Gazette
• Joondalup Times
• Joondalup Weekender
• Mandurah Coastal Times
• Melville Times
• Midland/Kalamunda Reporter
• North Coast Times
• North Coast Weekender
• Residential South
• Residential West
• Southern Gazette
• Stirling Times
• Wanneroo Times
• Wanneroo Weekender
• Western Suburbs Weekly
• Weekend Courier
• Kwinana Courier

The Group is owned by News Ltd (50.1 per cent) and WA Newspapers

The West Australian

The West Australian is the only locally-edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia, and is owned by ASX-listed Seven West Media . The West is published in tabloid format, as is the state's other major newspaper, The Sunday Times, a News Limited publication...

(49.9 per cent).

Further reading

• (2001) Community Newspapers ride high on PANPA success. (Executives at Community Newspaper Group give reasons for the company's success, after one of its free newspapers, Weekend Courier Community was voted the best free non-daily newspaper for the Australian and Pacific Region). Campaign brief (1999), Oct. 2001, p. 20-21