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Works in Progress
Wednesday, January 23, 1946
For a time in the late 1970s-early 1980s, I was working at Leader Newspapers as it merged with the Progress Press group. The merger brought more problems than anticipated solutions. The amalgamated group soon split, with the demerged Leader adding three suburban newspapers (Progress Press, Chadstone Progress, Waverley Gazette) to its collection, and the reconstituted