Gibber Gabber

Gibber Gabber is a weekly newspaper published in Woomera, South Australia; it has been published continuously by the Woomera Board since August 1950.^[1]

History

Gibber Gabber began as a local community magazine (or newsletter) for Woomera residents,^[2][3] with the first issue on 11 August 1950.^[4] It is published weekly on Fridays by the Woomera Board, whose aim is to build the sense of community, given its remote location.^[5] The newspaper's main office is on Banool Avenue, Woomera.^[6]

Local themes covered by the newspaper include:^[3][7]

• The Woomera community
• Indigenous Australia, health and the environment
• Border protection - such as Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre
• Rail transport - national, as well as Central Australia Railway, Northern Australian Railway, and the Trans-Australian Railway
• Space technology and the space race - e.g. Defence Science and Technology Group and the RAAF Woomera Range Complex
• Nurrungar and satellite tracking stations - Joint Defense Facility Nurrungar
• The Cold War - local atomic bomb testing at Maralinga
• Science fiction from the Cold War era - including reports of unidentified flying objects

Distribution

The newspaper is distributed both in print form and also online.^[3]

Digitisation

Microform versions of the newspaper from January 1991 are available from the State Library of South Australia and Australian National Library.^[4][8] Some more recent issues are also available at Issuu.^[9]