| Radio stations | Australia | Origins of the ABC's Radio National and Local Radio networks. |
| Railway | New South Wales | Telegram Form (NC-DO-9B). |
| Tasmania | Launceston & Western Railway. | |
| Rates, telegraph | various | See sections in main menu. |
| International | ||
| Rates - border town problems | NSW | Mungindi. |
| South Australia | 1884-87 issues; | |
| Australia | 1939 introduction of a zoning system to overcome the border town problems. | |
| Receipt for telegram | Tasmania | Receipt at Zeehan with 1d Mount Wellington pictorial. |
| Regulations and Acts | Queensland | 1861 and 1869 information |
| Repairs to lines | Miscellaneous | See Line repairs. |
| Repeated telegrams | NSW/Australia | Obtaining a copy of a telegram - Regulations and an example of a form. |
| Repeated telegrams | Tasmania/Australia | Transmitting a message from one station to another towards a destination. |
| Reply paid telegrams | NSW | Concept and Regulations |
| Australia | Concepts, Regulations and forms. | |
| All States | See Main Menus for each State at the top of each page for Forms - Interim forms. |
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| Reports | NSW - 1858 | Report by B. Martindale on construction of first Telegraph Line. |
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| South Australia - 1867 | Report by Charles Todd to determine the Boundary line between South Australia and New South Wales. | |
| Victoria - Cable - 1858 | Second Report on the survey for the cable from Port Otway to Tasmania by Samuel W. McGowan | |
| Victoria - Rates - 1858 | Telegram rates as issued 21 October 1858. | |
| Reuters | Pacific Cable | Cricket news from the MCG to London |
| Overview of Reuters history in Australia and its telegraph stationery. | ||
| Russian Invasion | Victoria | The night of 7 September 1854 -and the role of the Telegraph Officer!! |
| South Australia | Threat leads to telegraph construction. | |