About Village Voice Inner-North

Village Voice Inner-North

Overview

Village Voice Inner-North is a free monthly community newspaper serving the inner northern suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland. It is one of two local editions published under the Village Voice name, the other being Village Voice Peninsula, and it covers the suburbs of Albion, Ascot, Clayfield, Eagle Farm, Hamilton, Hendra, Kalinga and Wooloowin, together with adjoining parts of Brisbane's inner north. The paper is delivered to homes and businesses across its coverage area and is supported by a website, village-voice.com.au, which carries news, opinion, arts and community stories for both editions under the tagline "Everything Local".

The Inner-North edition is a relatively recent addition to Brisbane's suburban press. It was launched in October 2020 under the name My Village News (Inner North), when the existing community paper My Village News expanded from its original inner-city base into the northern suburbs. Both editions changed their names to Village Voice in July 2023. According to the Public Interest Journalism Initiative's Australian News Data Report of September 2024, the original title became My Village News (Peninsula) in October 2020 to coincide with the Inner North launch, and the two mastheads were renamed Village Voice (Peninsula) and Village Voice (Inner North) in July 2023.

The edition remains in current publication. The Australian Press Council's published lists of constituent bodies, including the lists dated June 2026 and September 2026, record "Village Voice – Inner North" and "Village Voice – Peninsula" as two separate Queensland publications, and the paper's website continues to publish new local stories, including reporting in 2026 on Brisbane Airport planning and flight-path issues affecting the inner north.

History

The Inner-North edition descends from My Village News, an independent community paper that served Brisbane's inner city. The paper describes itself as having served the inner-city Brisbane community for over a decade. By May 2019 it was publishing a monthly issue from a New Farm base, describing itself on its cover as a local magazine for New Farm, Teneriffe, Newstead, Fortitude Valley, Kangaroo Point, Spring Hill and Petrie Bight, with editorial and advertising contact addresses at its former myvillagenews.com.au domain and a post office box at New Farm.

In October 2020 the paper split into two geographic editions. The original edition took the name My Village News (Peninsula), reflecting its riverside territory, and a new My Village News (Inner North) was launched for the suburbs north of the river corridor. The first Inner North edition appeared in October 2020 with a cover listing its patch: Ascot, Hamilton, Hendra, Wooloowin, Clayfield, Kalinga, Eagle Farm and Albion. In the launch edition, the paper told readers it would come out in the middle of each month and would be personally hand-delivered, and it introduced columnist Mike O'Connor to its new readership. Local artist David Hinchliffe, a long-standing supporter of the parent paper, welcomed the expansion in print.

The two-edition structure has continued since. A renaming in July 2023 brought both mastheads under the Village Voice name, documented in the Public Interest Journalism Initiative's September 2024 data report, which records the change from My Village News (Inner North) to Village Voice (Inner North). Stories from the paper have continued to be republished by community organisations in its area, and the edition has maintained a monthly print presence alongside the shared website. In 2026 the paper's reporting included an examination, in its June 2026 issue, of Brisbane Airport's approved 2026 Master Plan and what it means for suburbs under the flight paths, followed by further coverage of Airservices Australia's response.

Programming and Content

Village Voice Inner-North covers the everyday concerns of its suburban patch: development and planning, roads and transport, schools, community groups, local business, sport and the arts. The shared Village Voice website organises coverage into sections including News, Business and Finance, Development, Community Voices, Arts and Culture, Lifestyle, Council, Property, Education, Sport and Opinion, and the Inner North edition's stories appear throughout those sections.

Development and infrastructure are prominent themes, reflecting rapid change across the inner north. The paper has reported on the future of Racecourse Road at Ascot, the area's best-known retail and dining strip, and on what Brisbane's growth in the run-up to the 2032 Olympic Games means for established suburbs. Its 2026 coverage of Brisbane Airport's master plan and aircraft noise gave residents a local account of an issue that dominates discussion in suburbs such as Ascot, Hamilton and Clayfield, which sit under busy flight paths.

Community institutions feature regularly. The paper has covered Ascot State School, including its centenary celebrations in 2020, the Hamilton Rotary club's activities, and commemorations and events at local churches, clubs and neighbourhood centres. State and council politics are covered from a suburban angle, including candidate question-and-answer features at Queensland election time, in which candidates for local electorates answer questions put by the paper on issues such as waste, recycling and the environment. Opinion pieces and guest columns, a feature of the paper since columnist Mike O'Connor was introduced in the first Inner North edition, sit alongside straight news reporting, and the Arts Guide section promotes exhibitions, theatre and live performance across the inner city.

Audience and Reach

The Inner-North edition is written for residents of Brisbane's inner northern suburbs, a group of largely residential neighbourhoods between the Brisbane River and the city's northern rail and road corridors. Its named coverage area runs from Albion and Eagle Farm in the east through Ascot, Hamilton and Hendra to Clayfield, Kalinga and Wooloowin.

The publisher says that each month 20,000 copies of the paper, across its editions, are hand-delivered to homes and businesses in its neighbourhoods. That figure is the paper's own claim, published on its website, and is not independently audited. Hand delivery has been part of the paper's model since the Inner North launch in 2020, when the first edition told readers the paper would be personally delivered to them each month. The paper is free to readers, and its content is also available without charge on its website.

Digital Presence

The Inner-North edition shares the Village Voice website, village-voice.com.au, with the Peninsula edition. The site publishes stories between print issues, organises them by the paper's subject sections, and presents the paper as a monthly publication whose featured articles give readers, in its words, a snapshot of what appears in the paper and the most talked-about local topics of the month. Current stories on the site in 2026 include development coverage in Bowen Hills, opinion on Racecourse Road, and the paper's continuing Brisbane Airport reporting.

The website carries a media kit for advertisers and links readers to a PressPatron page inviting support for the paper's independent journalism, indicating a reader-contribution revenue stream alongside advertising. The paper also maintains social media profiles, with Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn among the channels linked from its website. Print readers are directed to the website for additional stories, and community organisations in the coverage area republish the paper's articles online with credit.

Ownership and Organisation

Village Voice Inner-North is an independently published community newspaper. It is not part of a national media chain; it is produced by the same small local publishing operation as Village Voice Peninsula, from which it was split as a separate edition in October 2020 after the parent paper, My Village News, expanded its territory. Both editions are listed separately as constituent bodies of the Australian Press Council in the council's 2026 published lists, which means each masthead is individually accountable under the council's standards of practice.

The paper's organisation reflects its suburban scale. It works to a monthly production cycle, with print issues appearing mid-month, and combines staff-produced reporting with contributions from local columnists, community groups and readers. The operation invites financial support from readers through PressPatron, describing the journalism it funds as independent, and sells advertising to businesses in its coverage area through a published media kit. Its two editions share a website, a phone number and an advertising operation, while carrying separate mastheads, separate coverage areas and edition-specific local content.

Contact and Availability

Village Voice Inner-North is available free each month, hand-delivered to homes and businesses in Albion, Ascot, Clayfield, Eagle Farm, Hamilton, Hendra, Kalinga and Wooloowin, and through its website at village-voice.com.au. The paper can be contacted by phone on +61 7 3254 4965, the number published on its website, and advertising enquiries are directed to advertising@village-voice.com.au, the address printed in the paper's 2026 issues. The current name, Village Voice (Inner North), has been in use since July 2023; readers searching older references will find the edition as My Village News (Inner North) between October 2020 and July 2023, and the parent paper's earlier issues under the My Village News name.