It was the first English-language newspaper covering any part of the Barossa Valley, apart from the Kapunda Herald.
[1] The Leader was founded and for many years edited and printed by William Kirkby Robinson (1894–1976).
Offices were from 1935[2] or earlier, to December 1938[3] or later, printing and publishing in Dean Street, Angaston.
From 1933, Robinson was secretary of the Angaston branch of the Agricultural Bureau, and was the founder of the Lower North pruning competition held yearly.
Its geographical coverage includes Angaston, Nuriootpa, Tanunda, Mount Pleasant, Kapunda and Gawler.