About Us

In 1960 Packer and Fairfax organisations joined together to launch a newspaper in competition with Murdoch's Cumberland Newspapers. The new Packer/Fairfax company, Suburban publication, started with little more that loose change and looked to create a product that reported real news instead of filler between advertisements. The new company looked at St George and Southland and within the year the Leader was in circulation. After the establishment of the leader the next step was to expand, papers were launched in Parramatta, Ryde and Burwood forcing Cumberland into a fierce war. Through out the 70's while papers folded both companies still endeavoured to expand. The company's newspapers grew as publications in Penrith and St Marys were launched. The 1970's also saw the company move into the computer age, building a reliance on computers that lasts to this day. Through the 1980's further change effected the company. Packer's organisation ceased all interest in newspapers, allowing Fairfax to obtain sole ownership of Suburban Publications, renaming the company Fairfax Community News. Fairfax Community Newspapers now has ten newspapers around the Sydney region with a circulation of 561,867 and a readership of 934,000 Source: http://www.fcnonline.com.au/whoweare.asp March 2004