Tara Brown

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Newsreader
TV Presenter
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Tara Brown (born 1968) is an Australian television presenter. She was born in 1968 in Sydney, NSW, Australia

Early Life

Brown graduated from high school in 1986. She completed a Bachelor of Arts (Communication) Degree at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst in 1989.

Televsion

She soon got a job in the Channel Seven’s Sydney newsroom as an assistant to the chief-of-staff. She moved to WIN Television in Wollongong in 1991, where she completed a cadetship in journalism.

The Nine Network

In 1992 she joined the Nine Network and began working on compiling features including "Australian Agenda" reports for the Nine Network's late news program Nightline. In 1993 she left Nightline and began reporting on A Current Affair. Her most memorable stories for A Current Affair include a series of reports on a group of Australian soldiers returning to Vietnam on the 30th anniversary of the conflict; uncovering a tyre dumping racket which posed a major environmental threat; and a feature story on refugees in Bei Hai in southern China. In 2001 she began presenting on the Nine Network's 60 Minutes A Current Affair's program. The first person Tara Brown ever interviewed on 60 minutes was Mel Gibson. Tara is also a fill-in presenter for Sunday Morning News on the Nine Network. [http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=260174] [http://health.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=55225]

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