Leigh McClusky

Who is Leigh McClusky?

Leigh McClusky is an Australian journalist and presenter who has previously worked for Channel 7 in Adelaide. She held the role of presenter of Today Tonight South Australia from 30 January 1995 to 17 August 2007.

She started her career as a cadet reporter for the Melbourne Herald in 1979. Since then she has worked throughout the Australian media. McClusky was also a feature writer for the Australian Associated Press, as well as a researcher and reporter for the ABC program The Investigators. She has also worked on country newspapers and spent two years reporting with Channel Nine's A Current Affair.

In 1992 McClusky moved to Adelaide to present the ABC's The 7.30 Report, which at that time was state-based.

When the program became national in 1995, Kerry O'Brien took the role of presenting the program. McClusky then moved to Channel Seven where she started hosting the new state-based current affairs program Today Tonight, where she remained the anchor ever since the program started until August 2007.

Since March 2001 McClusky has taken Today Tonight South Australia's ratings above A Current Affair which is produced nationally.