East Torrens Messenger
weekly newspaper in Adelaide, South Australia
East Torrens Messenger is a weekly suburban newspaper in Adelaide, part of the Messenger Newspapers group. The East Torrens' area is bounded by Hackney Road to the west, the River Torrens Valley to the north, Magill Road to the south and the Athelstone foothills in the east.
The newspaper generally reports on events of interest in its distribution area, including the suburbs of Payneham, Magill, Athelstone and Paradise. It also covers the City of Campbelltown and City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters.
It has a circulation of 33,123 and a readership of 44,000.
History
The Payneham Messenger was established in 1984. In 2000, the paper was renamed the East Torrens Messenger.
“East Torrens Messenger” enters the record as weekly newspaper in Adelaide, South Australia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what East, Torrens and Messenger can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5329550. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1984 and 2000.
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