Tracey Spicer
- January 9, 2024
- Journalist
Quick Facts
Full Name | Tracey Spicer |
Occupation | Journalist |
Date Of Birth | Jun 25, 1967(1967-06-25) |
Age | 57 |
Birthplace | Brisbane |
Horoscope | Cancer |
Tracey Spicer Biography
Name | Tracey Spicer |
Birthday | Jun 25 |
Birth Year | 1967 |
Place Of Birth | Brisbane |
Birth Sign | Cancer |
Spouse | Jason Thompson |
Children(s) | 2 |
Tracey Spicer is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on June 25, 1967 in Brisbane, ****. Tracey Leigh Spicer AM (born 25 June 1967 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian newsreader, Walkley Award winning journalist and advocate. She is known for her association with Network Ten as a newsreader in the 1990s and 2000s when she co-hosted Ten Eyewitness News in Brisbane, Queensland. She later went on to work with Sky News Australia as a reporter and presenter from 2007 to 2015. In May 2017 Spicer released her autobiography, The Good Girl Stripped Bare. She was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia “For significant service to the broadcast media as a journalist and television presenter, and as an ambassador for social welfare and charitable groups”.
In a 2010 Daily Telegraph article, Spicer urged politicians to approve the use of “medical marijuana”.
In June 2014, Spicer delivered a TEDx talk for Southbank Women in Brisbane, Queensland. In 2015, Spicer featured in a short documentary, Let’s Talk About Breasts.
In 2015, she became an ambassador for KidsMatter, an Australian mental health and wellbeing initiative focused on primary schools and early childhood. Spicer hosted KidsMatters’s Starting School videos. In the same year, she was appointed as ambassador for Autism Spectrum Australia.
In late 2006, after 14 years with the network, Spicer was dismissed after returning from maternity leave when her second child was two months old. In a 10-page letter of demand served to Network Ten, Spicer claimed she had been discriminated against since giving birth to her first child in 2004. The case garnered attention in the media, with speculation she was fired because of her age; Network Ten strongly denied allegations of discrimination and said it was related to ongoing restructuring of the news division and related cost efficiencies. Spicer threatened to take the case to the Federal Court, but eventually settled with the network. She signed off for the final time on New Year’s Eve 2006, beginning work with Sky News Australia four days later. Spicer worked as a Sky news presenter until leaving in 2015.
Tracey Spicer Net Worth
Net Worth | $5 Million |
Source Of Income | Journalist |
House | Living in own house. |
Tracey Spicer is one of the richest Journalist from . According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tracey Spicer 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Spicer attended high school in Brisbane and in 1987 graduated from the Queensland Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Business (Communications) with a major in journalism.
Spicer began her career at Macquarie National News providing reports to the Brisbane station 4BH, before moving to Melbourne radio station 3AW as morning news editor. Spicer moved on to television: first for the rural network, Southern Cross Television, and the Nine Network. The Network Ten station in Melbourne later hired Spicer as a local correspondent and then co-host of the First at Five News in Brisbane. In 1995 she moved to Sydney to present the National Weekend News bulletins, and late night news until it was taken off air in 2005. Spicer remained with Network Ten until the end of 2006.
In January 2011, Spicer interviewed anti-vaccination campaigner, Meryl Dorey (Australian Vaccination Network now Australian Vaccination-Skeptics Network) on 2UE. Citing an editorial in the British Medical Journal which confirmed there was now ‘clear evidence’ that the now discredited research linking autism with the MMR vaccine, undertaken by Andrew Wakefield, was conducted unethically and based on falsified data, Spicer asked Dorey to concede the AVN’s “scare campaign” was based on “fraudulent and misleading information”. When Dorey tried to direct listeners to her AVN website, Spicer ended the interview prematurely by terminating the call.. And in December 2011, in an article for the Daily Telegraph, Spicer became a public advocate for childhood vaccination when she wrote of her frustration with the growing anti- vaccination lobby.
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Who is Tracey Spicer Dating?
According to our records, Tracey Spicer married to Jason Thompson. As of December 1, 2023, Tracey Spicer’s is not dating anyone.
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On 1 May 2017, Spicer released her autobiography,The Good Girl Stripped Bare, published by ABC Books and Harper Collins, described as ‘part memoir and part manifesto’.
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In May 2017, Spicer addressed the Sydney Institute on the topic “Ways Forward for Women in the Workplace”. In her speech, Spicer argued quotas and targets are insufficient to address gender inequity in the workplace. Spicer was the MC for the 2017 International Women’s Day Events in Brisbane.