TARA BROWN THE STORY BEHIND TV’S TOUGHEST WOMAN

After almost 15 years on 60 Minutes, Tara Brown has hit a professional purple patch, tackling a string of high-profile stories and winning fans with her courage, smarts and steely interviewing style, but what’s behind the super-cool façade? She talks to Susan Horsburgh about her job’s emotional toll, her kids’ guilt trips and the father she hasn’t spoken to for almost 40 years.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY MICHELLE HOLDEN STYLING BY REBECCA RAC

IF YOU LISTEN to the career coaches, Tara Brown is doing it all wrong. Downplaying her successes like so many women do, she attributes her career rise to luck and stresses that her stories are a team effort. She also apologises, a lot. In an age when attention-seekers are lionised and self-promotion is an essential life skill, humility is apparently for losers – and yet the 47-year-old 60 Minutes reporter is on a professional high, thanks to old-school qualities like talent, intelligence and a punishing work ethic. Tara has plugged away on the country’s slickest current affairs program for almost 15 years, but she appears to have taken it up a notch in recent times, nailing a string of big stories in her poised, signature style. Just in the past…

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The Australian Women's Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2015

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