ABOUT

Market-Place is an independent on-line journal for Australian Anglicans.

An independent information source, Market-Place has no connections with the Anglican Church of Australia. It is funded by supporters and advertisers.

Marketplaceonline is the new face of Market-Place, Australia's independent Anglican national newspaper, which has printed its last edition.

Eleven and a half years after the paper began, the newspaper ceased publication with the April 2008 edition.

The independently-owned paper closed,  but in a way that will enable a new source of community media for Australian Anglicans to emerge.

Begun in October 1996, the newspaper wound up after charting the major events in the life of the Australian Anglican church, as well as acting as a means of discussion of key debates, for more than a decade.

The independent, balanced news reporting that has characterized the pages of Market-Place newspaper for the past decade will now be instantly available to a much wider audience of Anglicans across Australia, via the web.

Under a plan to take Market-Place into the future, a 2-stage process has been designed to let the best system evolve.

This preliminary web-site (www.marketplaceonline.com.au) will cover the latest news and the bare essentials until the long-term site is fully developed.

This initial site will be free and current Market-Place readers will able to stay in touch with the news.

In due course the full range of features now found in the pages of Market-Place will be on the new 'complete' site, plus more that hasn't been possible in a newspaper.

How much more?

The wish-list of what could be on the Market-Place site is only limited by the imaginations of the group that's begun to sort through the practicalities of delivering it.

Like the former independent newspaper, it will be up to subscribers to fund the new 'expanded' site.

There's never been any church funding for the newspaper, but that's what has let Market-Place deliver the provocative and engaging style of journalism that readers have come to appreciate.

Former subscribers will receive a letter in the mail detailing how they can continue with Market-Place by supporting this new venture.

Similar to a number of web-publications, the new fully-developed site will be a blend of free pages and subscriber-only articles.