1. Tracey Leigh Spicer is an Australian newsreader, Walkley Award-winning journalist and social justice advocate.
36 Facts About Tracey Spicer
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Tracey Spicer 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.
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Tracey Spicer later went on to work with Sky News Australia as a reporter and presenter from 2007 to 2015.
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In May 2017 Spicer released her autobiography, The Good Girl Stripped Bare.
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Tracey Spicer 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".
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In 1987, Tracey Spicer graduated from the Queensland Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Business with a major in journalism.
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Tracey 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.
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Tracey Spicer moved on to television: first for the rural network, Southern Cross Television, and the Nine Network.
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Tracey Spicer remained with Network Ten until the end of 2006.
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In late 2006, after 14 years with the network, Tracey Spicer was dismissed after returning from maternity leave when her second child was two months old.
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Tracey Spicer threatened to take the case to the Federal Court, but eventually settled with the network.
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Tracey Spicer signed off for the final time on New Year's Eve 2006, beginning work with Sky News Australia four days later.
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Tracey Spicer worked as a Sky News presenter until leaving in 2015.
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Tracey Spicer has hosted the Ethnic Business Awards, which is a national business award that highlights and celebrates migrant and Indigenous excellence in business, for 11 years in a row.
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Tracey Spicer writes the Mama Holiday column for Traveller Magazine's Sunday edition, focusing on family holidays.
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Tracey Spicer was previously a weekly op ed columnist with Wendy Harmer's The Hoopla from 2011 to 2015 and travel writer and ambassador for Holiday with Kids Magazine from 2009 to 2014.
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Tracey Spicer was a columnist with the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
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Since August 2015, Tracey Spicer has been an occasional contributor to ABC TV's The Drum and currently works as a freelance writer, speaker, media trainer and broadcaster through her two media companies, Tracey Spicer Communications and Outspoken Women.
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Tracey Spicer produced a documentary for the World Wildlife Fund, World Vision and other non-government organisations about the plight of women in Bangladesh, Kenya, Uganda, Papua New Guinea, and India.
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In late June 2022 Tracey Spicer said in an interview that since contracting COVID-19 in January, subsequently developing Long COVID, she had had to reduce her working hours since returning to work.
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Tracey Spicer is an ambassador for World Vision, the World Wide Fund for Nature, the Queensland University of Technology's Learning Potential Fund and the Penguin Foundation, and Patron of the NSW Cancer Council, the newborn care unit at the Royal Hospital for Women, the Life's Little Treasures Foundation and the National Premmie Foundation.
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Tracey Spicer is an Ambassador for Dying with Dignity, and is the face of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research's research into pancreatic cancer, the disease responsible for her mother's death.
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In January 2011, Tracey Spicer interviewed anti-vaccination campaigner, Meryl Dorey on 2UE.
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When Dorey tried to direct listeners to her AVN website, Tracey Spicer ended the interview prematurely by terminating the call.
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In June 2014, Tracey Spicer delivered a TEDx talk for Southbank Women in Brisbane, Queensland.
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In 2015, Tracey Spicer featured in a short documentary, Let's Talk About Breasts.
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Tracey Spicer was the MC for the 2017 International Women's Day Events in Brisbane.
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Together with Melinda Schneider, Tracey Spicer launched NOW Australia on 25 March 2018.
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Tracey Spicer left NOW Australia in 2018 or 2019, stating that she had done so due to vicarious trauma.
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On 1 May 2017, Tracey 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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Tracey Spicer has contributed stories to the books Unbreakable by Jane Caro and Father Figures by Paul Connolly.
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Tracey Spicer appeared in 3 events at the 2017 Brisbane Writers Festival in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Tracey Spicer sits on the judging panel of the Caroline Jones Women in Media Young Journalists Award.
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Tracey Spicer has won or been nominated for the following awards:.
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Tracey Spicer contracted COVID-19 in January 2022, and developed Long COVID.
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Tracey Spicer was still sick in late June 2022, and described the disabling effect of the disease in a radio interview.