Meie Kodu
Meie Kodu (English: Our Home) is an  Estonian language newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, from 1949. History
Meie Kodu was first published on August 14, 1949, by Estonian immigrants. The Estonian community in Australia in 1949 was estimated to be approximately 3,000 people. Most Estonians who arrived in Australia following the end of World War Two came as 'Displaced Persons' or refugees who were leaving their homeland following the imposition of Soviet rule in 1944. Typical of other non-English language newspapers in Australia, Meie Kodu played an important role in keeping newly arrived Estonians aware of the domestic situation in Estonia and also played an important role in providing information useful for daily living in their adopted home of Australia - "...to acquaint readers with the life of Estonians here, their working conditions as well as their social activities, their political status and their hopes, in order to lighten our countrymen’s task of settling to a new life”. The 'information useful for daily living in their adopted home of Australia' has been replaced by reports on Estonian community activities in all States and Territories of Australia. The paper was published initially as a weekly but started fortnightly publication from its 16 January 2013 issue. Digitisation
The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program. See also
 List of newspapers in Australia
 List of non-English-language newspapers in New South Wales

References

External links

Press timeline: Select chronology of significant Australian press events to 2011  *http://www.nla.gov.au/anplan/heritage/NewspaperChronology.html 
The birth of the newspaper in Australia https://web.archive.org/web/20121021091603/http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/birth-of-the-newspaper
Isaacs, Victor, Kirkpatrick, Rod and Russell, John (2004). Australian Newspaper History: A Bibliography http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/eserv/UQ:9521/anb_rk.pdf
Estonian Archives in Australia 
Meie uus kodu : Estonian-Australian Stories
For Estonian refugees, a masthead made a new home, half a world away

Defunct newspapers published in Sydney
Estonian diaspora in Australia
Estonian-language newspapers
European-Australian culture in Sydney
Non-English-language newspapers published in Australia
Newspapers on Trove