 From 2004 to 2007, Etchells was a senior reporter for "Seven News" based in Melbourne.During this time he filed hundreds of stories of national and international interest including the Beaconsfield Mine collapse, Cadel Evans' historic Tour de France campaign, the hanging of Van Tuong Nguyen in Singapore and England's 'Suffolk Ripper' prostitute murders.In February 2007 he returned to Australia from Los Angeles where he worked as a "Seven News" U.S Correspondent.