Tracey Spicer

Tracey Leigh Spicer is an Australian journalist, author, public speaker and social justice advocate. She is known for her association with Network Ten as a newsreader in the 1990s and 2000s when she co-hosted Ten Eyewitness News in Brisbane, Queensland and later nationally, from the Sydney headquarters. She went on to work with Sky News Australia as a presenter from 2007 to 2015. In May 2017 Spicer released her autobiography, The Good Girl Stripped Bare, followed by her second book in May 2023, Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future, which examines how societal bias becomes embedded in artificial intelligence systems. Man-Made won the Social Responsibility category at the 2023 Australian Business Book Awards. It was also longlisted for the 2023 Walkley Book Award. She has won two Walkley Awardy for journalism and was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia, for significant service to the broadcast media as a journalist and television presenter, and as an ambassador for social welfare and charitable groups". Spicer is a regular public speaker, addressing a broad range of topics including artificial intelligence ethics, gender equality and media training.