 The brothers and their families then travelled to Queanbeyan where, on 15 September 1860, they produced their first newspaper.This publication was initially called "The Golden Age" after the gold deposits that had been discovered locally, but within four years the gold was gone and in 1864 the paper's name was changed to "The Queanbeyan Age".From 1887 to 1889 Gale was the Member for Murrumbidgee in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the Protectionist Party.