Tracey Spicer Biography
Tracey Spicer AM is a Walkley Award-winning journalist and social justice advocate from Australia. She is most known for her role as a newsreader for Network Ten in the 1990s and 2000s, when she co-hosted Ten Eyewitness News in Brisbane, Queensland.
How old is Tracey Spicer? – Age
She is 56 years old as of 2023. She was born in 1967 in Brisbane, Australia.
Tracey Spicer Family – Education
Spicer attended the private Soubirous and Frawley Colleges in bayside Scarborough, 30 kilometers (19 miles) north of Brisbane, from 1980 to 1984. Spicer earned a Bachelor of Business (Communications) with a major in journalism from the Queensland Institute of Technology in 1987.
Tracey Spicer Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $3 Million.
Tracey Spicer Autobiography – Books
Spicer’s autobiography, The Good Girl Stripped Bare, was released on May 1, 2017, by ABC Books and Harper Collins, and was described as “part memoir, part manifesto.” Spicer participated in the research “Mates over Merit” in 2016, which looked at gender inequalities in the Australian media. The Walkley Foundation recognized Spicer’s commitment to the conception, analysis, and marketing of the WiM poll as one of three achievements supporting her nomination for the Walkley’s Women’s Leadership in Media award. Spicer has written stories for Jane Caro’s Unbreakable and Paul Connolly’s Father Figures. Spicer took part in three events during the 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival, which took place in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Tracey Spicer Nine Network
Spicer went on to work in television, first for a rural network, then for the Nine Network. Spicer was later hired by Network Ten in Melbourne as a local correspondent and co-host of the First at Five News in Brisbane (together with Glenn Taylor and Geoff Mullins). She relocated to Sydney in 1995 to deliver the National Weekend News bulletins and late-night news until it was canceled in 2005. Spicer was a Network Ten employee till the end of 2006.
Tracey Spicer Career
Spicer started her profession at Macquarie Public News giving reports to the Brisbane station 4BH, prior to moving to Melbourne radio broadcast 3AW as a morning news proofreader. Spicer went on to work in television: first for the Nine Network, the rural network, and Southern Cross Television. Spicer was hired as a local correspondent by Melbourne’s Network Ten station and became the co-host of Brisbane’s First at Five News with Glenn Taylor and Geoff Mullins. In 1995 she moved to Sydney to introduce the Public Weekend News notices, and late-night news until it was taken off air in 2005. Spicer worked for Network Ten through the end of 2006.
In late 2006, following 14 years with the organization, Spicer was excused subsequent to getting back from maternity leave when her subsequent youngster was two months old. Spicer claimed that she had been subjected to discrimination ever since giving birth to her first child in 2004 in a 10-page letter of demand sent to Network Ten.
The case earned consideration in the media, with the hypothesis she was terminated as a result of her age; Network Ten unequivocally denied claims of segregation and said it was connected with progressing rebuilding of the news division and related cost efficiencies. Spicer settled with the network after threatening to take the case to Federal Court. She left for the last time on New Year’s Eve 2006, and four days later, she started working for Sky News Australia. Until her departure from Sky News in 2015, Spicer was a presenter.
Spicer has facilitated the Ethnic Business Grants, which is a public business grant that features and celebrates traveler and Native greatness in business, for quite a long time (2008-2018).
Spicer composes the Mother Occasion section for Voyager Magazine’s Sunday version, zeroing in on family occasions. From 2011 to 2015, Spicer was a weekly opinion columnist for Wendy Harmer’s The Hoopla. From 2009 to 2014, she was a travel writer and ambassador for Holiday with Kids Magazine. She was a feature writer for the Everyday Message paper.
Since August 2015, Spicer has been an incidental supporter of ABC Television’s The Drum and presently functions as an independent essayist, speaker, media coach, and telecaster through her two media organizations, Spicer Interchanges and Straightforward Ladies.
Spicer made a documentary about the plight of women in Bangladesh, Kenya, Uganda, Papua New Guinea, and India for the World Wildlife Fund, World Vision, and other non-governmental organizations. In late June 2022 Spicer said in a meeting that since contracting Coronavirus in January, accordingly growing Long Coronavirus, she had needed to decrease her functioning hours since getting back to work. She had reduced her weekly hours to four by June.