The Independent was a 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....

n based weekly newspaper owned by mining entrepreneurs Lang Hancock

Lang Hancock

Langley Frederick George "Lang" Hancock was an Australian iron ore magnate from Western Australia who maintained a high profile in the competing spheres of business and politics...

 and Peter Wright.

The paper was launched on 27 April 1969 as a Sunday only publication and its founding editor was Maxwell Newton.

Circulation was claimed to be 70,000 copies at its peak, however it never seriously challenged that of its rival, the well established Sunday Times

The Sunday Times (Western Australia)

The Sunday Times, owned by News Limited, is a tabloid Sunday newspaper printed in Perth and distributed throughout Western Australia.-History:...

.

In 1973 it ran as a daily for four weeks, as The Independent Sun, in direct competition with The West Australian

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...

 

The Sunday Times owners, News Corporation

News Corporation

News Corporation or News Corp. is an American multinational media conglomerate. It is the world's second-largest media conglomerate as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009, although the BBC remains the world's largest broadcaster...

acquired it in 1984 and it was wound up in May 1986.

External links

• http://www.encyclopedia.uwapress.uwa.edu.au/wa_snapshots