Background
She was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
She was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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 program 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 program
The first person Brown ever interviewed on 60 Minutes was Mel Gibson.
She also used to be a fill-in presenter for Nine Sunday Department of Administration and Management News.