| Rabbits | Western Australia | First sightings. |
| Race Courses | New South Wales | The "pansy" course at Randwick. |
| Victoria | Telegraph stations at Victorian courses. | |
| 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 for a Telegram. |
| Tasmania | Receipt used at Zeehan with 1d Mount Wellington pictorial. | |
| Recruitment of Telegraph Messengers | General | Conditions, requirements and tests (you are dared to try them and attain 50%). |
| Recruitment to the P & T Department |
New South Wales | Requirements for employment in the Post and Telegraph Office 1881. |
| Regulations and Acts | Queensland | 1861 and 1869 information |
| Renewable Energy | Victoria | Generating electricity using water power in 1884!! |
| 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 | Australia | Concepts, Regulations and Australian forms. |
| All Colonies | Select the Main Menu for each Colony and go down to Instructional annotation. | |
| Eaton | Potential profit through Reply-Paid telegrams from non-education comments. |
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| Reports (see also Articles) |
All Colonies | Select the Main Menu for each Colony then highlight OVERVIEW and select Reports from the secondary menu. |
| NSW - 1858 | Report by B. Martindale on construction of first Telegraph Line. | |
| 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 | Australia | Overview of Reuters history in Australia. |
| Approval for an Indicator Code. | ||
| Transmission form. | ||
| Delivery forms. | ||
| Receipts for costs of sending cables or sending funds. | ||
| Messenger | Image of a lovely young girl who was a mesenger for Reuters in London. | |
| Pacific Cable | Cricket news from the MCG to London. | |
| Rowing | Victoria | The Electric Telegraph Department rowing club. |
| Rugby League | NSW | Telegrams to Graham Eadie. |
| Russian Invasion | Victoria | The night of 7 September 1854 -and the role of the Telegraph Officer!! |
| South Australia | Threat leads to telegraph construction. | |