Media Kit
Arafura Times The Western Cape Bulletin Torres News Cooktown Local News
Arafura Times The Arafura Times is a weekly newspaper published (Wednesday) from the East Arnhem Land gateway township of Nhulunbuy, on the Northern Territory’s Gove Peninsula. The newspaper, of which 1,350 copies are printed per edition, is 100% fully-paid, and is essential reading for the local residents of the booming bauxite mining town, which boasts the highest per capita income of the Northern Territory. Beyond it’s readership of wealthy miners and their families, the newspaper is distributed to the vibrant Yolngu indigenous communities of Yirrkala and Ganyangara (Ski Beach).
Regional & Remote Newspapers Taming the markets of the wild north The Regional & Remote Newspapers Group was created in 2010, bringing together four of the best mastheads in Northern Australia’s regional and remote markets. The four titles cover an amazingly diverse region of over 500,000 sq km (an area twice the size of the United Kingdom) where many of the nation’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Indigenous homelands are found. Other key circulation areas include prosperous mining communities and leading tourism destinations.
The Western Cape Bulletin The Western Cape Bulletin weekly newspaper is published (Wednesday) from the township of Weipa, and serves the flourishing mining and indigenous communities of Western Cape York Peninsula. The newspaper boasts a 100% fully-paid circulation, with a circulation of 1,300 copies per week.
Numerous indigenous homelands are also served by The Western Cape Bulletin, including: Napranum, Mapoon, Aurukun, Lockhart River and Kowanyama. The newspaper is also distributed on the Cape York Mail Run, which travels every week to the Cape’s cattle stations and remote communities such as Coen and the Musgrave Roadhouse.
Famous for its remote beauty, Western Cape York is also a key mining region of Queensland with Weipa growing rapidly to accommodate the demand for a skilled workforce to serve the mining sector.
Nhulunbuy and Weipa
Directories
Key Parts of Australia’s Ecomomic Future
Business and Community Directories
Both operated by the world’s fourth largest mining company Rio Tinto Alcan, Nhulunbuy (Gove) & Weipa together account for 17% of global production of bauxite – the ore that is used in the production of aluminium.
Regional & Remote publishes directories in the, Torres Strait and NPA, Weipa and the Cook Shire.
With known reserves forecast to last another 60 years, these two towns will continue to be significant contributors to global economic development for decades to come.
Please contact us for a publication schedule and advertising rates.
These annual directories are indispensable for the local communities they serve.
Torres News The Torres News is a weekly newspaper published from the Torres Strait administrative centre of Thursday Island every Wednesday. The newspaper, of which 3,000 copies are printed per edition, is 100% fully paid and is distributed across all inhabited islands of the Torres Strait and throughout the five communities of the Northern Peninsula Area (NPA) of Cape York. The readership of the Torres News is majority indigenous (about 80%), with the newspaper operating as an effective medium for the transfer of information to and from the Torres Strait Islander and Cape York Aboriginal People of Australia.
Loose Inserts Rate for loose inserts vary due to our airfrieght charges. Inserts are to be delivered to our Cairns printer (Inserts are only inserted in local newsstand distribution) Standard insert: - (A4 folded) paper less than 80 gsm Brochure insert: - (less than 8 pages) paper less than 80 gsm Newspaper
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Quantity Required Standard
Brochure
Arafura Times
1300 pcs
$450
$700
Western Cape Bulletin
1300 pcs
$450
$700
Torres News
2400 pcs
$700
$850
Cooktown Local News
1500 pcs
$350
$550
Rates for other sizes and distribution on application. All rates are inclusive of GST
Cooktown Local News The Cooktown Local News is a weekly newspaper serving the Cook Shire community of Cape York Peninsula. Fiercely independent like its readers, the Cooktown Local News is published every Thursday and boasts a circulation of 1,500. Sitting at the juncture of the Daintree Rainforest and Cape York Peninsula, the Cook Shire is a very popular tourist destination that is blessed with unsurpassed natural beauty and historical sites of national significance.
Display Advertising Rates
$5.50 per ccm
Spot Colour Rate:
$6.50 per ccm
Full Colour rate:
$7.50 per ccm
Full Page 38cm x 7 cols (38cm x 262mm wide)
Junior (half) page 27cm x 5 cols (27cm x 187mm wide)
Quarter Page 19cm x 4 cols (19cm x 149mm wide)
All advertising rates in the Newspapers are based on column centimetres (ccm). A page is made up of 7 columns wide and 38 cm high Mono rate:
Sample Ad Sizes
1/8th Page (Square) 12cm x 3 cols (12cm x 111mm wide) 1/8th Page (Horizontal) 9cm x 4 cols (9cm x 149mm wide)
All rates are inclusive of GST Column widths Columns
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
mms
34
72
111
149
187
225
262
1/8th Page (Vertical) 19cm x 2 cols (19cm x 72mm wide)
PO Box 261 Port Douglas QLD 4877 Tel: 1300 NEWS (1300 6397 00) www.regionalandremote.com.au
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