Tara Brown | |
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| Born | 14 March 1968 (age 55) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Education | Davidson High School Charles Sturt University |
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| Years active | 1992–present |
| Employer | Nine Network |
| Notable credit(s) | 60 Minutes A Current Affair Nine News |
| Spouse | John McAvoy (2000–2017) |
| Children | 2 |
Tara Brown (born 14 March 1968 in Sydney, New South Wales[citation needed]) is an Australian television presenter and reporter.
After graduating Davidson High School in 1986, Brown attended Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, New South Wales, graduating in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts (Communication) Degree.[1][2]
After graduation, she joined Channel Seven's Sydney newsroom as an assistant to the chief-of-staff.[1][2] In 1991, Brown moved to WIN Television in Wollongong, and undertook a cadetship in journalism.[1][2]
In 1992, she joined the Nine Network and began working on compiling features including "Australian Agenda" reports for the Nine Network's late news programme Nightline.[1][2] In 1993, she left Nightline and began reporting on A Current Affair.[2] Her most memorable stories for A Current Affair include a series of reports on a group of Australian soldiers returning to Vietnam on the 20th anniversary of the fall of Saigon; uncovering a tyre dumping racket which posed a major environmental threat; and a feature story on refugees in Bei Hai in southern China.[1]
In 2001, she became a reporter on the Nine Network's 60 Minutes.[3] The first person Brown ever interviewed on 60 Minutes was Mel Gibson.[3]
Brown was previously a fill-in presenter for Nine Sunday AM News.[4][5]
In April 2016, Brown and eight other people (including three other staff members of the Nine Network, David Ballment, Stephen Rice, and Ben Williamson)[6] were arrested on allegations of child abduction in Lebanon. Lebanese judicial sources told The Guardian that the group were to be charged with "armed abduction, purveying threats and physical harm" - crimes which carry sentences of twenty years' imprisonment with hard labour.[7] She was released from custody only after the Nine Network paid a substantial money settlement to the father of the children, the subject of the attempted abduction.[8]
Brown was married to TV producer John McAvoy from 2000 until their divorce in 2017. She has two sons, born in 2008 and 2010.[9][10]