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60-1140: Daily News or The Daily News is the name of several daily newspapers around the world, including: Australia [ edit ] Daily News (Brisbane) , (1878–1879), successor to the Queensland Patriot Daily News (Perth, Western Australia) (1882–1990) Daily News (Sydney) (1938–1940), formerly Labor Daily , then merged into The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) Tweed Daily News , New South Wales (online only) Warwick Daily News , Queensland (online only) Bahrain [ edit ] Gulf Daily News Botswana [ edit ] Daily News Botswana Canada [ edit ] Ming Pao Daily News (Canada) Dawson Creek Daily News , British Columbia The Kamloops Daily News , British Columbia Nanaimo Daily News , British Columbia Nelson Daily News (1902–2010), British Columbia Prince Rupert Daily News (1911–2010), British Columbia The Daily News (Halifax) , Nova Scotia The Daily News (1955–1963),

120-418: A newspaper St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador Today Daily News (Toronto) , Ontario Truro Daily News , Nova Scotia Montreal Daily News (1988–1989), Quebec Egypt [ edit ] Daily News Egypt Guam [ edit ] Pacific Daily News , Hagåtña India [ edit ] Daily News and Analysis Ireland [ edit ] Daily News (Ireland) ,

180-424: A career in journalism, initially assisting Ebenezer Thorne on his newly launched three-weekly Wide Bay and Burnett News . In November 1870, after a series of libel cases and family issues, Thorne sold his share in the journal to Feilberg, who became the sole editor and proprietor. Feilberg as editor supported the struggle for manhood suffrage, his success in breaking the press monopoly of William Henry Walsh . He

240-604: A chance for survival. He arrived in Sydney from London on the Aberdeen vessel Sir John Lawrence on 18 June 1867, travelling onto Rockhampton carrying a letter of introduction to Archibald Berdmore Buchanan , a Scottish squatter . He then gained "colonial experience", working as a shepherd, store and bookkeeper, predominantly at Buchanan's properties. The first six months at Cardbeign station in Springsure district,

300-538: A few weeks before his death. He died at his home "Claraville" in Cordelia Street, South Brisbane , on 25 October 1887. The immediate cause of death was reported to be "failure of the heart", but he had been suffering from spasmodic asthma and lung disease for months previously. The announcement of Feilberg's death triggered a quite unprecedented reaction in the contemporary press. The coverage and wording of these articles by far exceeds those honouring

360-521: A platform to launch a series of powerfully-worded editorials and articles demanding a Royal Commission and a change of policy. Despite being unsuccessful, his campaign triggered two large parliamentary debates and the biggest public debate of its kind ever conducted by an Australian newspaper on this subject. Feilberg outlined some of his deeper feelings in an editorial printed in the Queenslander on 19 January 1878, saying amongst other things that

420-1603: A short-lived paper of 1982 Malaysia [ edit ] Berita Harian (Daily News) Oriental Daily News (Malaysia) Overseas Chinese Daily News See Hua Daily News New Zealand [ edit ] Taranaki Daily News , New Plymouth People's Republic of China [ edit ] Macao Daily News North China Daily News (1850–1941), Shanghai Oriental Daily News , Hong Kong Sing Pao Daily News , Hong Kong Tin Tin Daily News (1960–2000), Hong Kong Republic of China [ edit ] China Daily News (Taiwan) Central Daily News Kinmen Daily News Mandarin Daily News United Daily News Poland [ edit ] Dziennik Związkowy ( Polish Daily News ) Romania [ edit ] Bucharest Daily News Singapore [ edit ] Berita Harian (Singapore) Shin Min Daily News South Africa [ edit ] Daily News (Durban) Sri Lanka [ edit ] Daily News (Sri Lanka) Tanzania [ edit ] Daily News (Tanzania) Thailand [ edit ] Daily News (Thailand) Turkey [ edit ] Hürriyet Daily News United Kingdom [ edit ] Birmingham Daily News The Daily News (UK) (1846–1930), merged to form

480-765: A small adventure novel, A Strange Exploring Trip , which some contemporaries viewed as having a curious resemblance with Henry Rider Haggard 's later King Solomon's Mines (from 1885). He used personal experiences in several of his stories from the outer Barcoo and early Rockhampton in the late 1860s, and from Cooktown and the Palmer gold field in the 1870s. His short stories were very popular in his own time. Some of these sketches and stories were signed "CF", but several were not signed at all, his authorship being revealed in writings by various contemporaries. These works include: Tin Tin Daily News The newspaper

540-470: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Daily News (Brisbane) Carl Adolph Feilberg (21 August 1844 – 25 October 1887), also spelt Carl Adolf Feilberg , was a Danish-born Australian journalist, newspaper editor, general political commentator, and Indigenous rights activist. He lived and worked mainly in the colony of Queensland , and in his editorials and columns criticised many aspects of

600-705: Is often marked by the unprovoked murder of some of the former – in order to make a commencement of the work of "civilising" them. His pamphlet The Way We Civilise: Black and White: The Native Police (published in Brisbane, December 1880), which was characterised by historian Henry Reynolds as "one of the most influential political tracts in Australian history", was a collection of articles and letters formerly published in The Queenslander . Feilberg also wrote many short stories and sketches reflecting

660-681: The Cooktown Courier during January to March 1877. Feilberg ran two campaigns for the rights of Aboriginal Australians , critical of the Queensland Government's policies. The first was in 1878, when he was editor of the Queensland Patriot . This angered John Douglas , then Premier of Queensland , as well as other co-proprietors of the paper, although the Patriot was an independent liberal journal. The move

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720-563: The Cooktown Courier from September 1876 to June 1877. He was a Hansard shorthand writer from July to October 1877, and part-proprietor and editor of the Queensland Patriot / Daily News from March 1878 to early January 1879. After leaving Maryborough, he was employed by the Brisbane Courier as a political commentator , leader writer, and as editor of The Queenslander , from January 1879 to December 1880. In

780-948: The News Chronicle London Daily News (February–July 1987) Scottish Daily News (1975–1975) United States [ edit ] Daily News Record (1892–2008), American fashion trade journal International Daily News , sold in several major Chinatowns Alaska [ edit ] Anchorage Daily News Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Ketchikan Daily News Arizona [ edit ] Mohave Valley Daily News , Bullhead City Tempe Daily News California [ edit ] Burlingame Daily News Daily News – Antelope Valley , Palmdale The Daily News (Palo Alto) Daily News (Red Bluff) The Daily News (San Francisco) East Bay Daily News , Berkeley Los Angeles Daily News (1981–present) Los Angeles Daily News (historic) (1923–1954), originally

840-451: The Queenslander on 1 May 1880, in his best known and most frequently cited editorial headed The Way We Civilise , it famously outlined Queensland's policy towards Aboriginal people in the following manner: This, in plain language, is how we deal with the aborigines: On occupying new territory the aboriginal inhabitants are treated exactly in the same way as the wild beasts or birds the settlers may find there. Their lives and their property,

900-404: The "...complacent blindness which induces the natives of Europe to regard their own customs and institutions as excellent above compare, and their adoption as a certain remedy and advantageous substitute for all other manners of living, even to the most simple and Arcadian, has served as excuse for enormities at the contemplation of which humanity revolts...". His opening lines to the campaign of

960-578: The 21st century, and in 2018 he was inducted into the Australian Media Hall of Fame . Feilberg's main strength was his work as a political commentator and leader-writer, for, among others, the Wide Bay and Burnett News (c. October 1870 to 1875), Cooktown Courier (from September 1876 to June 1877), the Queensland Patriot (from February 1878 to January 1879), The Brisbane Courier and its weekly The Queenslander (sporadically in

1020-4376: The Los Angeles Illustrated Daily News Los Gatos Daily News Nguoi Viet Daily News , Westminster Redwood City Daily News (2000–2009) San Mateo Daily News (2000–2009) Siskiyou Daily News , Yreka Vien Dong Daily News Westminster Whittier Daily News Colorado [ edit ] Aspen Daily News Denver Daily News (2001–2011) Connecticut [ edit ] Yale Daily News , Yale University, New Haven District of Columbia [ edit ] The Washington Daily News Florida [ edit ] Naples Daily News Northwest Florida Daily News , Fort Walton Beach Palatka Daily News Palm Beach Daily News Georgia [ edit ] LaGrange Daily News Idaho [ edit ] Moscow-Pullman Daily News Illinois [ edit ] Chicago Daily News Effingham Daily News Indiana [ edit ] The Ball State Daily News , Muncie Greensburg Daily News Iowa [ edit ] Newton Daily News Kansas [ edit ] Hays Daily News The Wellington Daily News Kentucky [ edit ] The Daily News (Kentucky) Bowling Green Middlesboro Daily News Louisiana [ edit ] Beauregard Daily News Bogalusa Daily News Southwest Daily News , Sulphur Maine [ edit ] Bangor Daily News Massachusetts [ edit ] Athol Daily News The Daily News of Newburyport The Daily News Transcript , Norwood The Daily News Tribune , Waltham The MetroWest Daily News , Framingham The Milford Daily News Michigan [ edit ] Hillsdale Daily News Midland Daily News The Daily News , Iron Mountain Minnesota [ edit ] Daily News (Wahpeton) Mesabi Daily News , Virginia Winona Daily News Missouri [ edit ] Boonville Daily News The Neosho Daily News The Rolla Daily News Montana [ edit ] Havre Daily News Nebraska [ edit ] Norfolk Daily News New Mexico [ edit ] Alamogordo Daily News New York [ edit ] New York Daily News New York Daily News (19th century) (1855–1906) The Daily News (Batavia) North Carolina [ edit ] Daily News (Eden) Jacksonville Daily News Washington Daily News North Dakota [ edit ] Minot Daily News Daily News (Wahpeton) Ohio [ edit ] Dayton Daily News Sidney Daily News Troy Daily News Oklahoma [ edit ] Anadarko Daily News Elk City Daily News Weatherford Daily News Pennsylvania [ edit ] The Daily News (McKeesport) Lebanon Daily News Philadelphia Daily News Rhode Island [ edit ] The Newport Daily News Tennessee [ edit ] The Daily News Journal , Murfreesboro Daily News (Kingsport) The Daily News (Memphis) Texas [ edit ] The Daily News (Texas) , Galveston The Lufkin Daily News Focus Daily News Henderson Daily News Vermont [ edit ] Washington [ edit ] The Daily News (Longview, Washington) Peninsula Daily News , Port Angeles West Virginia [ edit ] Mineral Daily News-Tribune , Keyser West Virginia Daily News , Lewisburg Williamson Daily News Wisconsin [ edit ] Beloit Daily News Rhinelander Daily News United States Virgin Islands [ edit ] The Virgin Islands Daily News Zimbabwe [ edit ] Daily News (Harare) Zimbabwe Daily News Topics referred to by

1080-589: The New Guinea gold rush in early 1878, and New Guinea was later a frequent subject for his numerous editorials, including in The Argus , the Brisbane Courier , and The Times ( London ). He was of the opinion New Guinea should be made a British protectorate , as if another power colonised it, it could pose a security risk to Australia in the future. He "was never physically a robust man", as one obituary stated. The illness that brought him to Australia in

1140-554: The abiding truth of human life – on justice and on mercy, on trust and on love – and clung to them. He felt, as so many of us feel, that the old symbols see no new ones in the world of thought and feeling of his time. "Bobby" Byrne, or John Edgar Byrne , a Londoner turned bushman and pioneer during the Gulf country rush in the 1860s, later journalist and owner-editor of the Queensland Figaro and Punch , simply stated: Carl

1200-547: The age of 43. Although widely cited, his work was not lauded for most of a century after his death, but towards the 21st century, his reputation as a journalist and historian has been recognised. He also wrote short stories , novellas , and a novel. Carl Feilberg was born on 21 August 1844 in a small apartment at 1 Bredgade in Copenhagen , Denmark. He was the first born and only son of Danish Royal Navy lieutenant Christen Schifter Feilberg and Louise Adelaide Feilberg,

1260-506: The campaign of The Queenslander in 1880 subsequently caused Feilberg to accept a position as sub-editor on the then leading Victorian journal The Argus , based in Melbourne , in June 1882. It was noted in the contemporary press that Feilberg "has had very definite political opinions, and, in labouring unremittingly to impress them upon the public mind, has suffered at various times from

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1320-563: The colonial government policy towards Aboriginal Australians in the colony, in particular the use of the Native Police . After a major campaign in The Queenslander in 1880 and the publication of a pamphlet titled The Way We Civilise: Black and White: The Native Police , he suffered personal and political fallout, and had to move to Melbourne for some time. After becoming ill there and moving back to Brisbane , he died at

1380-754: The controlling stake of Culturecom Holdings was sold to Australia-listed company ViaGold Capital  [ zh ] . The new majority owner of Culturecom Holdings, acquired 70% stake of Tin Tin Publication Development from Culturecom Holdings in November 1999, and then also disposed the shares of Culturecom Holdings. It was reported that Tin Tin Publication Development was under a heavy net loss of HK$ 3 million per month. Culturecom Holdings also leased some office floor area to Tin Tin Publication Development as well as signing some service provider contract with Tin Tin Publication Development in

1440-434: The country, and of country life, and betray a sympathy with human nature for which those who saw only his other writings would never credit him... His views were naturally extreme, for he was intense, as such men always are, and this extremeness, with the vigour of his enunciation, caused him to make many and bitter enemies. Probably there were few men in the colony more bitterly hated by political and social opponents, yet there

1500-714: The daughter of a planter on the island of St. Croix in the then Danish West Indies . Following the early death of both parents, Feilberg was placed in foster care with Danish relatives, his aunt Louise Stegman (née Brummer) and her husband greengrocer Conrad Stegmann, at the time living in Edinburgh , Scotland. Feilberg received his formal education in Scotland , followed by a year at a college in Saint-Omer in France. After graduation he moved to Lincolnshire , England, and

1560-591: The first place remained dormant and the move to Melbourne proved fatal for him. What started out as a cold was to revive his old ailment and he was quite ill by mid-1883. He gave in to an offer and returned to Brisbane in July to take on the position of editor-in-chief of the Brisbane Newspaper Company ( Brisbane Courier ) in September same year. He remained fully active in this position until

1620-575: The generations to follow, subsequent research has shown that the scale of killings of Aboriginal people in what has subsequently been dubbed the Australian frontier wars was far greater than commonly reported, with some researchers suggesting that around 60,000 lives were taken in Queensland alone. Historian Henry Reynolds in particular has played a big part in publicising Feilberg's work. Feilberg started gaining more recognition for his work in

1680-562: The interior and railway schemes supporting this; he questioned the uncontrolled Chinese immigration (during the great mining rush in the far north); and he was a strong advocate of laws to combat the threat to the environment of uncontrolled logging and deforestation , and securing a policy of sustainable foresting. He was freelance correspondent and occasional editorial writer for the Brisbane Courier its weekly, The Queenslander , as well as for other journals, and also editor of

1740-472: The latter two became defunct by early 2002. It was also reported that Tin Tin Publication Development had failed to pay the loyalty fee to Tin Tin Yat Pao (International). Tin Tin Yat Pao (International) also sued Televerse Publishing, the publisher of Everybody's Daily News for copyrights infringement. While Televerse Publishing, had failed to pay Culturecom Holdings for rent as well as failed to pay

1800-554: The life and dreams of many of his fellow colonists. He served several terms as president for Brisbane's famed literary Johnsonian Club . Other chairmen over time were noted Queenslanders such as jurist Sir Samuel Griffith , politician John Douglas , poet James Brunton Stephens , and journalist William Senior the principal shorthand writer also known as "Red Spinner". The latter three in particular were known to be close friends of Feilberg. The Liberal Premier John Douglas appointed Feilberg as government envoy for New Guinea during

1860-457: The misrepresentation and obloquy which every active politician is fated to encounter". He was sub-editor on The Argus from June 1882 to June 1883, and then returned to Brisbane to became editor-in-chief of the Brisbane Courier and The Queenslander from September 1883 to October 1887. Feilberg authored a great number of articles on the issue of human rights abuses towards Pacific Islanders and Indigenous people in Queensland. The issue of

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1920-410: The most notable and frequently cited advocate of Indigenous human rights in the history of colonial Queensland. Almost all Indigenous policy critical articles, editorial comments and editorials printed in the Brisbane Courier and its weekly The Queenslander between 1874 and 1886 were authored by Feilberg. Additionally he conducted two lengthy campaigns, one in the Queensland Patriot in 1878 and

1980-478: The nets, canoes, and weapons which represent as much labour to them as the stock and buildings of the white settler, are held by the Europeans as being at their absolute disposal. Their goods are taken, their children forcibly stolen, their women carried away, entirely at the caprice of the white men. The least show of resistance is answered by a rifle bullet; in fact, the first introduction between blacks and whites

2040-462: The nine months from during March to December 1880 Feilberg utilised The Queenslander as a platform to launch a series of powerfully-worded editorials and articles demanding a Royal Commission and a change of policy with regard to Indigenous Australians . Although unsuccessful, he managed to trigger two large parliamentary debates, as well as the biggest public debate of its kind ever conducted by an Australian newspaper, on this subject. A change in

2100-579: The other and most notable in The Queenslander in 1880, both of them (but the latter, in particular), triggering significant public and parliamentary debates centred around the issue of the colony's Native Police Force and frontier Indigenous policy. Feilberg's 1880 pamphlet, The Way We Civilise , played a crucial behind the scene role in the British Government move to nullify Queensland's unilateral annexation of New Guinea in April 1883. It

2160-479: The passing of any of his contemporary and in many cases more famous colleagues. His funeral at Brisbane's Toowong Cemetery was attended by a wide range of friends, journalists and several high-ranking politicians from both sides of Queensland politics, including the former Premier, Sir Thomas McIlwraith . A eulogy was authored by poet Francis Adams . Feilberg was arguably the most prominent political commentator and newspaper editor in Queensland in his time, but he

2220-688: The period 1875 – February 1878, intensively from January 1879– January 1881 & July 1883– September 1887) and Melbourne Argus (Brisbane correspondent from 1880 to 1882, sub-editor on amongst others the subject of Queensland & New Guinea from July 1882 – June 1883). He was the author behind the parliamentary column of the "Political Froth" by "the Abstainer" and the column "Specialities" in The Queenslander from January 1879 – to May 1882, and political commentaries such as "The future of North-Eastern Australia". In his spare time Feilberg wrote fiction and several sketches, romantic short stories, and also

2280-518: The present day. The satirical title The Way We Civilise was eventually re-used in 1997 as a title for Rosalind Kidd's study on Queensland's institutionalised policy towards Aboriginal people from the 1880s onwards. Feilberg's pamphlet is equally cited in the highly profiled Bringing Them Home (1997), which reported on the Stolen Generations (Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their families to be brought up in institutions during

2340-625: The proprietorship of the Brisbane Newspaper Company in late December 1880 caused Feilberg to endure a year of being gradually relegated to steadily more subordinate positions on the journal. On 23 September 1882, in a private letter in reply to Sir Arthur Gordon , the former Governor and High Commissioner of the Western Pacific, Feilberg wrote: "I despair of doing much good for the blacks, and I have incurred enough personal ill-will myself by writing on their behalf during my residence in Queensland". The personal and political fallout following

2400-596: The question of Indigenous rights (possibly because Traill was living in Sydney at the time), saying: As a journalist he was an untiring worker, few newspapers in Australia have not been benefited by his pen, and few writers on all subjects were more appreciated by the public, he never wrote himself out, and his style was always fresh and free from any touch of respective sameness...Poor Feilberg! There were two subjects on which one could always rouse his righteous indignation –

2460-657: The remaining time in the Barcoo district on Greendale and possibly other stations in the central west. The knowledge he gained in the outback , including his experiences with the Native Police and the darker sides of the colony's frontier policies, would later influence his work as a journalist, political commentator, and author. After being naturalised at Rockhampton Court House on 21 June 1870, Feilberg chose to settle in Maryborough , where in August 1870 he commenced

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2520-649: The same month. It was reported that the newspaper had changed ownership again in June 2000. After a period of declining circulation and popularity, Tin Tin Daily News was forced to close in September 2000. Several related newspapers, Everybody's Daily News ( Chinese : 人人日報 ; Jyutping : jan jan jat bou ) which resemble the Chinese name of the newspaper, as well as Hong Kong Globe ( Chinese : 公正報 ; Jyutping : gung zing bou ) and A Daily ( Chinese : A報 ; Jyutping : A bou ), soon followed. The former survived for 12 days, while

2580-417: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Daily News . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daily_News&oldid=1209564841 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

2640-445: The so-called Kanaka trade or blackbirding – the use of Melanesian labour on Queensland sugar plantations – was high on his agenda from the late 1870 onwards; he and his journal were instrumental in bringing about the conviction of the captain of the recruiting schooner Jason in 1871. Feilberg's contribution to the history of colonial Queensland , included editorials written for the Brisbane Courier from 1874 to 1878, and later in

2700-552: The treatment of the blacks, and the seizure of the Danish fleet by Nelson; his love of fair play was too strongly appealed to in both. Somewhat a political opponent, yet nonetheless a close personal friend, Walter John Morley, editor-in-chief of the Brisbane Evening Observer , wrote about Feilberg that he was "a man whom it was impossible to regard with indifference", adding that Feilberg, "in his working days",

2760-489: The twentieth century), and in Ben Kiernan 's Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination (2008). William Henry Traill , journalist and Feilberg's predecessor as editor of The Queenslander , who was later the editor of The Sydney Mail , owner-editor of the famed weekly magazine The Bulletin and a NSW politician, was the only one of Feilberg's friends who dared to mention Feilberg's feelings on

2820-418: Was ... one of the most voluminous and valued of Australian writers... As a Press writer Mr. Feilberg was without a rival in the colony, and had few equals on the continent. His style was clear, crisp, and trenchant, and withal somewhat cynical; he could detect at once the weak spot of an argument, and understood thoroughly the worth of ridicule and the power of satire. His writings exhibit a perfect knowledge of

2880-596: Was a mate of mine of some 16 years' standing. The Brisbane dailies supply full particulars of his life, and it is not for me to gush about his virtues. He was my mate, and I always found him "white." I first met him in Maryborough, when he had just come back from the Barcoo, where he had been jackarooing . Some of the best yarns that ever appeared in Punch and Figaro I learned from Carl Feilberg... After much of his most controversial work had conveniently forgotten about in

2940-457: Was acquired by fellow listed company Sing Tao Holdings , making the newspaper became a sister newspaper of fellow Chinese language newspaper Sing Tao Daily , as well as English language newspaper Hong Kong Standard . Sing Tao Holdings was majority owned by Sally Aw , who also founded another newspaper Express News  [ zh ] ( Chinese : 快報 ). Jademan Holdings was also renamed to Culturecom Holdings in 1993. However, in 1998,

3000-688: Was actively used by Sir Arthur Gordon , the Aborigines Protection Society , and others, as evidence to persuade the British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone and his Secretary of State for the Colonies , Lord Derby , that Queensland was utterly unfit for the task of ruling New Guinea. Feilberg's pamphlet and opponents of the views expressed in it are frequently cited in many books, articles, studies, and documentaries up to

3060-425: Was also proposed to lent money to Tin Tin Publication Development, to refurbish the shareholders' loan of Ho couple to the company, as well as proposed to acquire Tin Tin Yat Pao (International) Limited from the bank and Ho couple. Ho also acquitted a defraud accusation, which the prosecutor accused Ho had defrauded Tin Tin Yat Pao (International) from 1987 to 1990. In 1990s, the controlling stake of Jademan Holdings

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3120-405: Was an urgent need for the government to reform and move to protect the fundamental rights of Indigenous people. The memory of this crucial part of Feilberg's writings, however, was to remain victim to the "veil of silence" which covered all issues related to the treatment of Indigenous people in the colonial era for the most part of a century. To the extent Feilberg's name was remembered at all, it

3180-539: Was certainly equally well known in the other Australian colonies. His death in October 1887 was received with an amount of strongly worded obituaries and expressions of grief, which was to remain extraordinary as well as unprecedented for any Queensland journalist of his era. His most lasting legacy became the numerous articles he wrote dealing with the most painful issue of all – Queensland's frontier Indigenous policy, Native Police system, and what he continually argued

3240-450: Was certainly no man more beloved by those whose privilege it was to know him intimately. For underneath all his cynicism and his apparent vindictiveness beat a heart that overflowed with all that makes humanity noble and good. He never saw distress without wishing to relieve it... Francis Adams , poet and socialist activist, wrote: He was a soldier in the army of Letters and of light of whom his comrades can be proud. He fixed his eyes on

3300-489: Was daring but ultimately unsuccessful, although it triggered a parliamentary debate on 10 July 1878. The blueprint for the Queensland Patriot campaign was reused, commissioned by the managing editor of the Brisbane Newspaper Company , Gresley Lukin , on a much larger scale in the Brisbane Courier (the leading Queensland journal; now The Courier-Mail ) two years later. In the nine months from during March to December 1880 Feilberg utilised its weekly, The Queenslander , as

3360-457: Was for his advocacy of some restrictions being put on Chinese immigration and for him being an early opponent of the Kanaka labour-trade; issues which were clearly viewed as more acceptable by early nineteenth-century Australian historians and record keepers. Yet Feilberg's commitment to human rights was hinted at in various ways by some of his obituary writers and close friends. Feilberg is one of

3420-724: Was in doubt as the owner of the publisher, Alan Lau's business, Millie's Handbags and Shoes, had collapsed a year earlier. The paper was kept alive by a HK$ 30 million bank loan, personally guaranteed by Xu Jiatun , director of the Hong Kong branch of the Xinhua News Agency. In 1987, 70% stake of Tin Tin Publication Development as well as 100% share capital of Tin Tin Colour Printing was acquired by Jademan Holdings (now known as Culturecom Holdings ) for HK$ 77 million from Ho Sai-chu couple. Jademan Holdings

3480-517: Was owner-editor of the Wide Bay and Burnett News from November 1870 to about 1875. Feilberg's journalism covered a wide range of subjects, in which parliamentary business, railway and settlement policy, finance and economic policy, and Indigenous rights took a prominent position. Beyond being additionally a harsh critic of the Kanaka ( blackbirding ) trade, he was an eager advocate for settlements in

3540-586: Was published by Tin Tin Publication Development Limited and was printed by sister company Tin Tin Colour Printing Company Limited. However, the publishing rights was owned by Tin Tin Yat Pao (International) Limited, which was majority owned by bank. The publishing rights was licensed to another company Genvon in 1984 and then Tin Tin Publication Development in 1987. In 1985, the paper's future

3600-417: Was then employed by shipping broker Lloyd's of London . Feilberg's second name was spelled Adolph in his birth record and on most contemporary publications for public use, but he frequently used "Adolf" as his personal signature. Suffering from a serious case of tuberculosis , Feilberg was advised to migrate to Australia where time spent in the dry interior might mitigate some of the symptoms and provide

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