The Company

Torch Publishing has grown from a small family affair with a single, hand-operated press to a significant publisher employing hundreds of full time and casual employees and operating state of the art printing presses and computer systems.
Currently we produce three of our own mastheads - The Bankstown Canterbury Torch, The Review Pictorial (covering the Auburn municipality) and The Cooks River Valley Times. We are also responsible for the printing and production of many other publications for outside clients.

The Web Site

And now some information about this web site. We have deliberately kept it clean and simple, to make it easy to read and navigate. We are careful with our use of pictures and graphics in an effort to keep the web site as fast as possible. It does, however, use cascading style sheets which can mean that some early browsers will not represent these pages correctly. You will still see all the content but it might be a bit messed up. Sorry!
All the pages here have been designed so they are entirely viewable on a screen with 800x600 resolution.
We have a News section where searches can be made of our online database of stories. As time goes on this will expand to hold most stories and news items that appear in each of our papers.
There is also a special Information for Schools area which includes information about how the paper is produced. We hope you appreciate our efforts to value site content over fancy graphics and slow operation.


Full History