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Biography
Tracy Vo (born 1983) is an Australian journalist, television presenter and author.
Career
Vo is best known for her work with the Nine Network, where she has been a Nine News reporter since 2007.
In 2019, it was announced Vo had been appointed as the news presenter on the network's national breakfast show, Today. She commenced this role on 6 January 2020. In March 2020, Vo permanently returned to Perth due to COVID-19 and to look after her parents. Alex Cullen is currently presenting both news and sport.
As a Vietnamese-Australian, Vo's appointment meant she became one of only a few Asian faces on commercial television in Australia.Nine's decision to appoint Vo to such a prominent role at the network was met with praise, and was described by one media outlet as "symbolic of progress towards greater media representation of Australia's multicultural population".
Vo had previously been the local Today Perth breakfast news presenter on Channel 9 in Perth in 2016 and 2017, presenting live half-hourly local news bulletins throughout the time-delayed broadcast of the national Today program.
In 2018, Vo was appointed as anchor of the Channel 9 Perth's local afternoon program, Nine Live Perth.
In 2014, Vo published a book entitled Small Bamboo, which detailed her parent's arrival in Australia in the late 1970's as Vietnamese boat people following the Vietnam War.
Vo grew up in the Perth suburb of Hammersley and attended Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School at Nollamara and then Hollywood Senior High School in Shenton Park.Vo completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at Curtin University.
Vo's early career included stints at Sydney radio station 2SM, and Sky News Australia.She joined Channel 9 in Sydney in 2007 where she remained until 2012 when she returned to Perth for personal reasons, and commenced working as a journalist at Channel 9 in Perth.