Guinea Gold
Front page from an edition of the Guinea Gold, February 1946.
The Guinea Gold newspaper was published daily by the Australian Imperial Force in Port Moresby, New Guinea, between 1942 and 1946. Read by Australian and American troops, it provided information about the course of the war and news from the Australian home front. At its peak, it produced 64,000 copies each day.
The newspaper was printed on outdated machinery that often needed repair. Air raids sometimes interrupted the presses, and the publication had to be censored as a matter of course, but the Guinea Gold never failed to be produced each day.
- Why would the Guinea Gold have been so important to those serving overseas?
- Why would the publication have needed to be censored?
- Wartime rationing of materials had a noticeable effect on the quality of the paper, printing, and binding of these publications. What are the differences between the paper and printing quality of the Guinea Gold and newspapers today?
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