The Leader was a weekly newspaper in Melbourne, Victoria.
It was a "companion weekly" to the daily newspaper The Age, and was edited by David Syme's brother George Syme.
[1] Its first issue was released on 3 February 1855, under the title "The Weekly Age".
[3] A longtime contributor to The Leader was Julian Thomas (1843–1896), who wrote as "The Vagabond" or "The Vag".
[4][5] The National Library of Australia has digitized photographic copies of most issues of The Leader from Vol X, No.