 A full-time Australian editor was appointed between 1979 and 1982 and again between 1997 and 2002.Between 1982 and 1997 and since 2002, editorial duties in Australasia have been carried out on an ad hoc basis as required by the "New Internationalist" team in the UK.The UK "New Internationalist" was launched in Britain as a monthly magazine in 1973.