Education
Curro is a graduate of the Queensland University of Technology (Bachelor of Business – Communications) and the Institute of Strategic Leadership, New Zealand.
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Tracey Curro
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Career
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. 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 Limited (1993) 30 NSWLR 337, decided 7 May 1993. She can occasionally be heard filling in for regular presenters on 774 American Broadcasting Company Melbourne radio, notably filling in for a two-week period in 2005 following the departure of Virginia Trioli, and has written for The 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 executive recruitment firm SHK, specialising in marketing and communications, corporate and public affairs, government relations, internal communication and sustainability. Curro has also acted as a fill in presenter for Carrie Bickmore on news-chat show The Project, and was particularly prominent on the show in 2010-2011.
