About The State

The State is a local masthead owned and published by Mafia Publishing (ABN 37 709 073 991), 252 Annerley Road, Dutton Park QLD 4102. It brings listings, directory entries and advertisements together in a format made for reading rather than tracking.

How listings work

Businesses can pay to place a listing. A bid helps determine where a paid listing starts, and its position gradually gives way to newer placements after its first thirty days. A business may instead ask to start with one clearly disclosed complimentary promotional month. The publisher may also include unpaid editorial and house notices, or grant a selected friend or publisher-owned business a disclosed complimentary priority placement that does not expire.

Paid, promotional and complimentary priority listings are labelled on their own pages. A thirty-day complimentary promotion ranks behind paid placements and shows its submitted website only as plain text, without a clickable referral link. Every new commercial listing is reviewed before it is published. Approval means it meets our publishing requirements; it is not an endorsement or guarantee of the business behind it.

For businesses

You can write a listing, preview it against the current masthead and see what a bid would buy before proceeding. Accounts and listings are managed through mafia.net.au. There are no automatic renewals.

Contact

Questions, corrections and complaints can be sent to Mafia Publishing (ABN 37 709 073 991), at 252 Annerley Road, Dutton Park QLD 4102, or by email to frankie@thestate.au.