The Whitsunday Times is a weekly newspaper covering the Whitsunday Shire in North Queensland, Australia. Its circulation area includes Airlie Beach, Cannonvale, Proserpine, Jubilee Pocket, Shute Harbour

Shute Harbour

Shute Harbour is a sheltered port for small vessels located approximately 10 kilometres east of Airlie Beach on the Whitsunday Coast of Queensland, Australia...

, Mount Julian, Conway, Dingo Beach, Hydeaway Bay, Midge Point, Hamilton Island

Hamilton Island

Hamilton Island may refer to:* Hamilton Island , Australia** Hamilton Island Race Week, keelboat regatta** Great Barrier Reef Airport, formerly Hamilton Island Airport* Hamilton Island , Canada...

, Hayman Island, Daydream Island, Hook Island, South Molle Island, Long Island and surrounding areas.

It is currently published every Thursday, and an average of 7,342 copies ( Circulation Audit Board, , September 2006) are distributed, sold or home delivered across the Shire. It is printed by Mackay Printing and Publishing, part of APN News & Media

APN News & Media

APN News & Media Limited is an Australian and New Zealand media company. Divisions include newspaper publishing, online publishing, broadcast radio and outdoor advertising in Australia and New Zealand...

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It was founded in 1981 under the Airlie and Island News masthead.