Leach began his career at
Triple J in the early 1990s hosting the
Three Hours of Power show, the weekly late night
heavy metal show. Later on he transferred to
Creatures of the Spotlight, the Sunday night arts show. In 2000 he made the switch to
The Morning Show, Triple J's daily three-hour talkback and current affairs show. He remained in the role until 2002. During the later part of his Triple J career, he also hosted a Saturday morning sports show at fellow ABC
Melbourne station
774 ABC. In 2003 he hosted an arts and music program on
Radio National. In 2004 he joined the commercial station
SEN 1116 in
Melbourne to host afternoons however he left the station in June 2005 to join
DMG Radio Australia's new station
Vega FM in both Sydney and Melbourne. At one stage Leach and his wife
Lynne Haultain, a radio announcer at
774 ABC, hosted shows that were broadcast during the same time slot. Leach was also host of
SEN 1116's coverage of the
A League. In 2012, Leach returned to
ABC Radio and joined the
ABC Radio Grandstand team, hosting a breakfast show on digital radio. He is a regular panellist on ABC-TV's Sunday morning sports talk show,
Offsiders. In 2016, Leach joined
David Schwarz as co-host of the SEN "Breakfast" show. In 2018, he was appointed as sports editor at
The New Daily. ==See also==