(19 February 2015) The National Library of Australia and its partner libraries have recently digitised three Australian Chinese-language newspapers, making them available through Trove They are the Chinese Advertiser / English and Chinese Advertiser, the Chinese Australian Herald, and the Chinese Times. This follows on from the creation of an English-language index to another paper, the Tung Wah Times, as part of the Chinese Heritage of Australian Federation a decade ago.
This detailed and well illustrated story by Kate Bagnall is here.