The Boomerang - New Labour journal published

- 1887 - Queensland - trade union movement - Mr William Lane -

20 November 1887 -  A new weekly journal called the Boomerang went to press yesterday, published by a well-known journalist in the Queensland trade union movement. Mr William Lane, editor of the new publication, has previously written a column called ‘Labour Notes’ for the Evening Observer in Brisbane.

He said in his editorial in the first edition:

‘Australia is not a sect or section,  is not a caste or a class or a creed, is not to be a Southern England nor yet another United States. Australia is the whole white people of this great continent “without distinction of sex, age, or previous condition”, and the Australian policy is a continuance in that enlightenment which has already proved her, while still in the colonial stage, foremost among the states of the earth. This pre-eminence has not been won by aping the forms and fashions of other climes; it has been gained by disregard for precedence and custom, and by exercising without trammel the intellect which alone is worthy of heed ... And while thus devoting its political efforts to the furtherance of this one all-embracing principle, the Boomerang will endeavour in every way to aid the national spirit that is so sturdily developing. Its illustrations will be Australian; its stories and its sketches will be Australian: its humour will be Australian; and its articles and comments will tend to Australianise.

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