Evelyn Leckie
Adelaide, SA
Evelyn Leckie is a reporter for ABC Eyre Peninsula and was previously the digital producer for ABC's Insiders and Offsiders television programs.
Latest by Evelyn Leckie
New plan aims to improve care and communication around stillbirth
Larissa Genat was fortunate to have a supportive midwife when her first daughter was stillborn. She says that is not the case for many other mothers.
Posted Study shows southern right whales are finding their way to original spots to birth calves
Scientists find whales are increasingly returning to historic birthing grounds around Australia where they were once intensely hunted
Posted SA government to ban banks from running financial literacy programs in schools
By Evelyn Leckie and Eugene Boisvert
Education Minister Blair Boyer says the move promised ahead of the state election will prevent institutions from using subtle marketing techniques to sign up young children to lifelong accounts.
Posted Renters shiver below minimum healthy temperature 17 hours a day in winter, report finds
By Josephine Lim and Evelyn Leckie
Tenant advocacy organisation Better Renting finds temperatures inside the homes it tracked dipped below the minimum temperature recommended by the WHO for an average of more than 17 hours a day.
Posted Updated McDonald's hit with wage theft claim after employees allegedly denied paid breaks
By Evelyn Leckie and Josephine Lim
The union for retail workers is seeking at least $250 million compensation on behalf of more than 250,000 current and former McDonald's workers across Australia.
Posted Updated Coach Dan runs a tight ship, but his basketball program keeps teens shooting for the right goals
By Evelyn Leckie and Rebecca Puddy
Amid news of alleged violence between Sudanese gangs in Adelaide, people from the South Australian community are rallying to keep kids on the right path. Coach Dan is one of them.
Posted SA teenager acquitted of dangerous driving over triple fatal near Mount Gambier
By Evelyn Leckie and Grace Whiteside
A South Australian teenager has been found not guilty of dangerous driving in a head-on crash that killed three people in the state's South East almost two years ago.
Posted Updated Supercars driver tells court Lamborghini likely to have been in sports mode before fatal crash
A professional race car driver tells a court an Adelaide driver probably accelerated and lost control of his Lamborghini before hitting teenager Sophia Naismith.
Posted Acting SA Premier 'alarmed' as the number of people with COVID-19 in hospital rises
By Eugene Boisvert and Evelyn Leckie
SA Health says 287 people with COVID-19 are in hospital, just 13 shy of the number the Police Commissioner says could lead to a conversation about returning to a state of emergency.
Posted SA councillor's bikini message to teenager subject to $11,000 investigation
A councillor in Adelaide's eastern suburbs says an inappropriate message sent from his official Instagram account to a 17-year-old girl was intended for somebody else.
Posted Kangaroo Island paedophile sentenced to 15 years' jail for abusing young boys
A Kangaroo Island man is sentenced to 15 years in jail with a non parole period of 12 years for sexually abusing five young boys over two decades.
Posted Doctors warn people could die in reports of multiple failings in SA's struggling health system
By Stacey Pestrin, Evelyn Leckie, and Rory McClaren
Alarming reports from the emergency rooms of South Australian hospitals show the health system is failing, amid a looming COVID-19 wave.
Posted Updated Degrading racism continues against Chinese-Australians
Research shows almost one in five Chinese-Australians are experiencing racist attacks, more than two years after the COVID-19 pandemic began.
Posted Updated SA Opposition Leader accused of 'dog whistling' to anti-vaxxers after 'dictatorship' gibe
A war of words intensifies between the South Australian government and the opposition over ongoing COVID-19 policing, with Health Minister Chris Picton hitting out at Liberal leader David Speirs's "Dark-Age dictatorship" analogy.
Posted Model describes 'dehumanising' airport treatment after coming off wheelchair
After the former disability discrimination commissioner spoke out about his recent experience in Adelaide, more accounts have emerged of rough handling at Australian airports — including from model Akii Ngo, who said they were told they "should have held on tighter" after falling from a chair.
Posted Updated Former disability discrimination commissioner 'angry as hell' over treatment at Adelaide Airport
Australia's former disability discrimination commissioner Graeme Innes is calling for immediate change after he says he was discriminated against as he tried to go through Adelaide Airport security.
Posted Updated Charge of intimidating witness dropped against Integrity Care director connected with Ann Marie Smith's death
Police drop charges against a former director of NDIS provider Integrity Care for allegedly threatening a key witness in an investigation into the death of Adelaide woman Ann Marie Smith.
Posted SA drops mask mandate but many businesses to keep rule in place
South Australia's mask mandate — one of the strictest in the country — has ended, but some businesses owners will ask customers to wear them anyway to protect themselves and others from COVID-19.
Posted Updated Terror for neighbour of ex-prisoners' home, but rehabilitation service says police don't pass on reports
This mother of three has called police on multiple occasions about her neighbours' terrible behaviour but she has only recently found out that the ex-prisoners' rehabilitation service they are being helped by never found out about the complaints.
Posted Woman faces court accused of paying vulnerable person to have COVID-19 vaccine for her
The first South Australian to be charged with vaccine fraud faces the Mount Barker Magistrates Court, accused of paying another woman money to receive a coronavirus vaccine in her place.
Posted Updated Shark concern deterred police from following drowning victim into water, inquest concludes
A coronial investigation into the death of an Aboriginal man who drowned while evading arrest at Ceduna in SA in 2017 concludes by rejecting "any suggestion" that police unreasonably pursued him.
Posted SA records fourth highest daily total of COVID cases
By Stacey Pestrin, Nick Harmsen, and Evelyn Leckie
Today's numbers are the highest daily total since January 17, and come after a significant easing of restrictions at the weekend.
Posted Updated Aboriginal voting registration improves ahead of SA election but numbers still low
As the South Australian state election draws closer, polling teams visit remote Indigenous communities in the APY Lands to improve voter engagement.
Posted Reoffending rates drop in SA as regional prisoners use jail time to turn lives around
Men who have committed very serious crimes in South Australia are turning their lives around in jail, in the hope of finding meaningful work once their sentences end.
Posted Updated Abortion laws were changed in SA over a year ago so why are women still facing barriers?
Abortion was decriminalised in SA in March last year but the old rules are still in operation, keeping extra barriers in place for women wishing to access the procedure.
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