Broken Hill’s only newspaper, The Barrier Daily Truth, features on Australian Story next Monday. It was one of many small regional papers affected by the pandemic.
Fight for the Truth
Monday 9 November at 8pm
Five hundred kilometres from the nearest capital city, the outback mining town of Broken Hill is fighting to save its only newspaper.
For over a hundred years, the Barrier Truth has told the town’s stories, documented wars, droughts and the Depression, and recorded the lives and deaths of its citizens.
But when the pandemic struck, advertising revenue collapsed, forcing the newspaper to shut down.
Former Broken Hill resident and mining executive …