Tara Brown
Tara Brown is one of Australia's preeminent television journalists and factual content presenters.
Tara is a Walkley Award-winning reporter with over 30 years of experience at the forefront of news and factual content in Australia and worldwide.
Tara is acknowledged and respected as a world-class interviewer who excels under difficult and uncomfortable circumstances. Tara's emotional, deeply personal, gutsy and compelling style has seen her at the forefront of many of the biggest stories of our time.
After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (Communication) Degree, her distinguished career started at Channel Seven's Sydney newsroom as an assistant to the chief of staff. In 1991, Tara moved to WIN Television in Wollongong and undertook a cadetship in journalism.
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. In 1993 she left Nightline and began reporting on A Current Affair. Her most memorable stories for A Current Affair include a series of reports on a group of Australian soldiers returning to Vietnam on the 30th anniversary of the conflict, and uncovering a tyre dumping racket that posed a major environmental threat.
While still working as a reporter on A Current Affair, Tara co-hosted Today on Saturday between 1996 and 1999. Tara also hosted The Gift – an eight-part factual series following organ donor recipients and the families of organ donors.
Tara joined 60 Minutes in January 2001. Since then, she has travelled the globe reporting countless stories; on patrol with the U-S military in Afghanistan, starving polar bears in the Canadian tundra and exploring secret chambers in the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Along the way, Tara has interviewed some of the world's most famous faces-amongst them movie stars Brad Pitt, Jude Law, and Mel Gibson, and rock stars ACDC, The Police, Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin and Powderfinger. In between royalty, politicians, and everyday people caught with extraordinary stories to tell.
She has reported on the world's major news events and conducted many of the program's highest-profile interviews. She was one of the first Australian journalists into New York's Ground Zero after 9/11. She covered the 2002 Bali bombings and the 2005 London terror attacks and reported extensively from the front line in Syria. Her signature interviews include speaking to the parents of Baby Gammy, a dying Chopper Read, hoaxer Belle Gibson, and notorious paedophile Peter Scully. She also did major reports on the murders of Daniel Morcombe and Allison Baden-Clay.
Tara continues to have an insatiable appetite for bringing viewers incredible stories that matter in her own unique, credible and compelling way.
Tara lives in Sydney with her partner and two sons.