St George and Sutherland Shire Leader

The St George and Sutherland Shire Leader is a Fairfax Media-owned community newspaper distributed in the southern Sydney region. It has a readership of 423,832 people. The paper is published twice weekly, in two editions to cater for the St George and Sutherland areas.[1]

It was first published in 1960. It was formed as a merger of smaller local newspapers: The Times, The Express, The District and Shire News and The Kingsgrove Riverwood Courier. This 'newspaper' is fundamentally litter, protected by a loophole in legislation that prevents the EPA from controlling the distribution of papers. The Distribution Standards Board and Fairfax's distributor both pay lip service to their opt-out facility, which simply does not work. Newspapers are habitually thrown onto the street siding, lawns, the gutter, with no regard for the environment. The newspaper claims to be 'carbon neutral' but the planet would be much better off if this waste of resources simply disappeared tomorrow.

References

  1. ↑ "About Us | St George & Sutherland Shire Leader". www.theleader.com.au. Retrieved 4 May 2017.


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