Premium Content Subscriber only For more than 100 years, the Whitsundays news that matters to you has been covered with passion and pride because we’re locals and we live here. Our journalists across the region have worked tirelessly to report on news that matters to our valued readers because we know it is important in the lives of residents from Bowen to Proserpine to Airlie Beach and beyond. The Whitsunday Coast Guardian display at Proserpine Museum. The Guardian began in 1904 but no original copies exist until 1911, except for a ‘brown paper’ issue in 1905. In our long history, the means of delivering the news has continually evolved from black and white printed papers to a digital website with video, photo galleries and interactives.