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The Australian Magazine; or, Compendium of Religious, Literary, and Miscellaneous Intelligence was Australia's first periodical, published in Sydney by Robert Howe, son of George Howe. The magazine was established by Wesleyan Methodists Benjamin Carvosso, Walter Lawry and Ralph Mansfield against the wishes of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Committee.

The periodical published thirteen monthly issues between 1 May 1821 and May 1822, when it announced it would become a quarterly due to ??, however the only subsequent issue was September 1822. The issues are bound into two volumes.

Ralph Mansfield went on to become the editor of the Sydney Gazette in 1829.