Tracey Curro

{{Short description|Australian journalist (born 1963)}} {{BLP sources|date=April 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox person | image = | caption = | birth_name = Tracey Ilana Curro | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1963|11|27|df=y}} | birth_place = Ingham, Queensland, Australia | death_date = | death_place = | education = Queensland University of Technology | occupation = Television journalist }}

'''Tracey Ilana Curro''' (born 27 November 1963)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://issuu.com/mediaflash/docs/ob151125z/42|title=On This Day – Friday November 27|newspaper=Melbourne Observer|date=25 November 2015|via=issuu}}</ref> is an Australian journalist.

Curro has previously been a news presenter on GMV-6, QTQ-9 and ATV-10<ref>Enker, Debi: [http://www.theage.com.au/news/tv--radio/headline-act/2005/09/06/1125772526751.html "Headline act"], ''The Age'', 8 September 2005.</ref> and a reporter on the Seven Network's ''Beyond 2000'', a science-technology show, and correspondent on ''60 Minutes''.

== Career == Curro was born and grew up in Ingham, Queensland; her father, Phillip, was a descendant of first-generation immigrants from Sicily.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://todayspaper.theaustralian.com.au/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&edid=da461135-29ed-45cb-98e7-898094e69ec0|url-access=subscription|title=Nothing changes unless people step forward|last1=Stewart|first1=Cameron|author-link=Cameron Stewart (journalist)|magazine=The Weekend Australian Magazine|date=2–3 September 2023|pages=14–19}}</ref> She is a graduate of the Queensland University of Technology (Bachelor of Business – Communications) and the Institute of Strategic Leadership, New Zealand.<ref>[https://www.saxton.com.au/speakers/tracey-curro "Tracey Curro – Profile"], Saxton Speakers Bureau</ref>

She was embroiled in a court case when she broke her contract with the producers of ''Beyond 2000'' to join ''60 Minutes'': ''Curro v Beyond Productions Pty Ltd'' (1993) 30 NSWLR 337, decided 7 May 1993.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Brooks |first1=Adrian |year=2001 |title=The Limits of Competition: Restraint of Trade in the Context of Employment Contracts|pages=346–381|journal=University of New South Wales Law Journal|issn=0313-0096|volume=24 |issue=2 |url=http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/UNSWLawJl/2001/27.html}}</ref>

She can occasionally be heard filling in for regular presenters on 774 ABC Melbourne radio, notably filling in for a two-week period in 2005 following the departure of Virginia Trioli,<ref>Farouque, Farah: [http://www.theage.com.au/news/tv--radio/in-search-of-a-host/2005/08/19/1124435143846.html In search of a host], ''The Age'', 20 August 2005.</ref> and has written for ''The Australian Women's Weekly''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Minion|first=Lynne|url=https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/wise-wifes-duty-to-stop-them-punching-above-their-weight-20090928-g8d7.html|title=Wise wife's duty to stop them punching above their weight|work=The Age|date=28 September 2009|access-date=28 April 2025}}</ref>

One of her prized moments of television occurred when she asked Pauline Hanson whether she was xenophobic. The famous response, "Please explain", has now become an Australia classic, and is a line for which Hanson is remembered.

Curro was also the Communications Manager for Sustainability Victoria—the greenhouse reduction arm of the Victorian Government,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/household-gets-a-wriggle-on-20070616-ge556x.html|last=Minchin|first=Liz|title=Household gets a wriggle on|work=The Age|date=17 June 2007|access-date=28 April 2025}}</ref> and later a consultant with the executive search firm SHK, specialising in marketing and communications, corporate and public affairs, government relations, internal communication and sustainability.

Curro previously filled in for ''National Nine News Melbourne'' weekend presenter Jo Hall;<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/the-year-that-was-20040101-gdx1c5.html|title=The year that was|work=The Age|date=1 January 2004|access-date=28 April 2025}}</ref> she also used to present weekly ''Crimestoppers'' reports on the Nine Network.

She has also been a fill-in presenter for Carrie Bickmore on ''The Project'', and was particularly prominent on the show in 2010–11. As of 2024, she is employed by Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools Ltd as General Manager, Strategic Communications and Engagement.

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb name|1139431}}

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