The Border Mail - Definition and Overview

The Border Mail is a daily newspaper published in Albury-Wodonga, serving it and the surrounding region.

Its first edition was printed on October 24, 1903 by editor Hamilton Mott and his brother Decimus. It is still owned by the Mott family, one of the few independent daily newspapers left in Australia. Originally published in Dean St in Albury, the paper operated from a number of Albury locations before a shift in 1999 to the former Albury-Wodonga Development Corporation headquarters in Wodonga. The paper retains offices in both cities.

A six-days-a-week tabloid, the paper covers national and international news (mostly through Australian Associated Press and Knight-Ridder Newspapers coverage) as well as local issues. Its editorial and op-ed pieces tend to reflect the quiet rural conservatism of its readership.

The paper has extensively covered some of the longest-running political debates in the region, notably the variety of plans to remove a level crossing from central Wodonga and the route for the Hume Freeway bypass of Albury.

External link

• Border Mail site (http://www.bordermail.com.au) - carries most of the paper's news and has an excellent history of the paper.