Tara Brown Biography

Tara Brown (born 14 March 1968) is an Australian television presenter. She was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Early life and career

Brown attended Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, New South Wales, graduating in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts (Communication) Degree.

After graduation, she joined Channel Seven"?s Sydney newsroom as an assistant to the chief-of-staff. In 1991, Brown moved to WIN Television in Wollongong , and undertook a cadetship in journalism.

Nine Network

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 20th anniversary of the fall of Saigon; uncovering a tyre dumping racket which posed a major environmental threat; and a feature story on refugees in Bei Hai in southern China.

In 2001, she became a reporter on the Nine Network's 60 Minutes programme. The first person Brown ever interviewed on 60 Minutes was Mel Gibson.

Brown was previously a fill-in presenter for Nine Sunday AM News.

In April 2016, Tara Brown and eight other people (including three other staff members of the Nine Network, David Ballment, Stephen Rice, and Ben Williamson) were arrested on allegations of child abduction in Lebanon. Lebanese judicial sources told The Guardian that the group were to be charged with "armed abduction, purveying threats and physical harm" - crimes which carry sentences of twenty years imprisonment with hard labour. She was released from custody only after the Nine Network paid a substantial money settlement to the father of the children the subject of the attempted abduction.

Personal life

Brown is married to TV producer John McAvoy. On 25 October 2008, she gave birth to their first son, Jack Cooper. On 12 December 2010, she gave birth to their second son, Tom Oliver.