The Daily Mirror was an afternoon paper established by
Ezra Norton in
Sydney, Australia in 1941, gaining a licence from the Minister for Trade and Customs,
Eric Harrison, despite
wartime paper rationing. In October 1958, Norton and his partners sold his newspapers to the
Fairfax group, which immediately sold it to
Rupert Murdoch's
News Ltd. It was
merged with its morning sister paper
The Daily Telegraph on 8 October 1990 to form
The Daily Telegraph-Mirror, which in 1996 reverted to
The Daily Telegraph, in the process removing the last vestige of the old
Daily Mirror.