Melbourne born and bred, Brett McLeod graduated from RMIT University, landing his first job at Melbourne’s leading talk station 3AW as a cadet. He worked in London at LBC radio, before returning to 3AW and at the age of 27 became News Director. Later he was co-anchor of the Drive shift.
Brett took a break from the world of news for several years joining MMM then FOX-FM with the satirical program Danger: Low Brow, which became the top-rating breakfast show on Melbourne’s FM radio.
He moved into television in the late ‘90’s, first with the Ten Network, before joining the Nine Network.
In 2002, Brett was posted to Nine's European bureau. His major stories reflected the main theme of this era: terrorism - including reporting on-the-spot for attacks in Israel, Madrid and Istanbul. He was in Baghdad shortly after the arrival of US forces in 2003. He also covered Anzac Day at Gallipoli, the Copenhagen royal wedding of Mary and Frederick, even a children’s party at Buckingham Palace.
Returning to Melbourne at the end of 2004, Brett was sent to an event of unprecedented scale – the Boxing Day Tsunami. One of his reports received a Quill award for the year’s best news story, while the network’s tsunami coverage garnered a Logie.
Since then he has reported on stories ranging from the 2006 war in Lebanon, the Kerang rail disaster, the Black Saturday Bushfires, and Australia’s combat withdrawal from Afghanistan. Brett and his team came under fire during the 2010 Red Shirt protests in Bangkok – his live reporting on radio earning another Quill nomination.
Brett lives in inner Melbourne with his wife Louise and three children. He is involved in the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, and is a Neighbourhood Watch ambassador.
He continues to mix reporting with newsreading Nine bulletins in Melbourne and nationally, as well as guest hosting on 3AW.
The war has created two possibilities that beforehand would have been almost unthinkable. One is a nuclear attack. The other is Putin being forced from power, writes 9News European Correspondent Brett McLeod.
The Victorian Premier this afternoon fronts the inquiry he set up into the hotels quarantine fiasco. Brett McLeod looks at what's been learned so far.
We have been told not to leave our homes unless necessary, but what if you don't have a home to leave?
It is always a surprise and a relief when politicians show they're human, Brett McLeod writes.
Hotels that were meant to insulate instead become incubators for COVID-19.
A three-year humanities degree is set to more than double in cost for students, from about $20,000 now to $43,500. Here, Brett McLeod writes about why his arts degree didn't just lead to a job, it led to a career.
Nine's US Correspondent Alexis Daish was on a break back home in Melbourne, set to interview Jonathan Dick's distraught mother Carol, when news broke that one of Australia's most wanted men had been arrested.
US Correspondent Charles Croucher tells Brett McLeod what it is like to report from a town ripped apart by bullets.
He’s guaranteed to make politics more colourful - but can he actually deliver on the Brexit deal that’s already cost his two predecessors their jobs?
Donald Trump took aim at familiar targets and launched a revamped slogan: Keep America Great.
Nine US correspondent Alexis Daish talks to Brett McLeod about the insights she gained navigating the US justice system.
When Donald Trump arrived in Britain with the diplomatic subtlety of a depth charge, it was easy to forget the purpose of his visit was not about him but honouring the war dead.
With Chris Bowen out of Labor's leadership race, The Correspondents discuss why that's happened and how the pollsters got the election result so wrong.
With the election campaign wrapping up, The Correspondents discuss what to look for on Saturday night, and what the main parties need to do going forward to avoid becoming a laughing stock.
Tightly-scripted appearances aside, two unexpected moments shone through on this week's campaign trail. But did they change the election?
Nine’s Brett McLeod is joined by political editor Chris Uhlmann and Canberra correspondent Jonathan Kearsley for the inside story.
As the Christchurch massacre unfolded, mainstream media was again presented with new ethical dilemmas, not unlike those before them on 9/11.
If there’s a convicted child rapist or molester living in your neighbourhood, wouldn’t you want to know?
Among the international count-terrorism experts who gathered in Melbourne today, Louisa Hope was able to tell the attendees the real meaning of the word "terror".
Christmas may not be a relaxing time for many of our bank executives.
With the curtain up on the Victorian election campaign, here is what to look for leading up to November 24's main attraction.
The National Australia Bank has started cutting 1000 jobs - the first of 6000 positions to go over the next three years.
As Melbourne heads to a forecast top of 37 degrees tomorrow, the RACV is urging parents not to put their children's lives at risk by leaving them in hot cars.
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Few moments can induce greater sweaty-palmed terror in householders then approaching the letter box and finding inside a bill from the power company.
“Out of touch”…”soft on criminals”… “they should all be sacked”.
Never before has a Cardinal appeared in a courtroom to answer charges of sex offences.
The Victorian government is diving headlong into one of the most fundamental and divisive debates: should the state give terminally ill people assistance to end their own lives?
While Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull launched the new anti-gang effort between Federal and Victoria Police, it was really a former policeman who was the driving force.
From where I am standing, not only can I see the people of North Korea, I can hear them. And they are very loud.
The US military strike against Syria shows there’s new leadership in the White House.
Preliminary reports into the crash at Essendon Airport which claimed 5 lives last month reveals there was nothing wrong with the plane.
It is fitting that the first artificial limb Mat Bowtell made was in the colours of Iron Man.
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