The St George and Sutherland Shire Leader is a Fairfax Media-owned community newspaper distributed in the southern Sydney region. With a readership of 287,000, the Leader is the most-read suburban newspaper in the Sydney Metropolitan Area[1]. The paper is published twice weekly, in two editions to cater for the St George and Sutherland areas.
It was first published in 1960 and will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2010. It was formed as a merger of smaller local newspapers: The Times, The Express, The District and Shire News and The Kingsgrove Riverwood Courier.