St George and Sutherland Shire Leader


The St George and Sutherland Shire Leader is an Australian Community Media-owned community newspaper distributed in the southern Sydney region. It currently has a monthly readership of 423,832 people and caters for the St George and Sutherland areas.
The paper was first published on Wednesday, June 29, 1960 as a weekly publication. It was formed as a merger of smaller local newspapers: The Times, The Express, The District and Shire News and The Kingsgrove Riverwood Courier. In 1984, the leader moved to a twice weekly publication on Tuesdays and Thursdays. On December 16, 2015 the paper reverted to a weekly publication on Wednesdays.