Tracey Curro

Who is Tracey Curro?

Tracey Ilana Curro is an Australian journalist who was a newsreader for TV stations GMV-6, QTQ-9 and ATV-10 before reporting for the Seven Network's Beyond 2000, a science-technology show, and then 60 Minutes, the Australian version of the current affairs show. Curro previously filled in for National Nine News Melbourne weekend presenter Jo Hall, she also used to present weekly Crimestopper reports on the Nine Network. Curro is a graduate of the Queensland University of Technology and the Institute of Strategic Leadership, New Zealand.

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 30 NSWLR 337, decided 7 May 1993.

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, and has written for Australian Women's Weekly.

One of her prized moments of television, occurred when she asked Pauline Hanson if she was Xenophobic. The famous response "Please Explain" has now become an Australia classic, and is a line for which Hanson is remembered. Tracey Curro was also the Communications Manager for Sustainability Victoria—the greenhouse reduction arm of the Victorian Government. She is currently a Principal Consultant with leading Executive Recruitment Firm, SHK, specialising in marketing and communications, corporate and public affairs, government relations, internal communication and sustainability.