For Sale. Trading Post group. GC. $636 million
Monday, November 7, 1966
A card table provided the artwork paste-up area when Margaret Falkiner (Wilkins) launched the first edition The Melbourne Trading Post newspaper on November 7, 1966. One typewriter, one phone, four kids underfoot. The eight-page newspaper first appeared fortnightly with a small collection of For Sale ads, sourced mainly from neighbours and friends. “Fifty thousand copies