September 16, 2026
In the early 1980s, I was Regional Manager of Leader Associated Newspapers Pty Ltd. The Registered Office of Leader was 160 Whitehorse Rd, Blackburn.The Northern Group – comprising eight newspapers – was based at 543-545 High St, Northcote. The Advertising Staff Contacts list from the time was: Regional ManagerAsh Long Area Manager – Diamond Valley,…
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As an executive at Leader Newspapers from 1978-1983, Managing Director Don Brown often gave me ‘intelligence’ projects. Sometimes I knew the project objective; sometimes I had to work blind. I was a frequent visitor to the Corporate Affairs Office to investigate the records of various companies that held the interest of Don Brown and his…
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In 1983, at age 26, when I departed as Leader Newspapers’ Manager at Northcote, their associate company Broadglen Publishing Company gave me a ‘going away’ present. My own newspaper, News-Pix Weekender. Broadglen had been publishing this free spoiler newspaper in the Bacchus Marsh-Macedon Ranges region to fight a competitor, the Telegraph group operated by independent…
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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…
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