Ticky Fullerton

Ticky Fullerton (born 2 November 1963) is a journalist at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and a regular presenter of the national show, The Business since mid-2010. The show is also aired on ABC News 24, the ABC's international TV news channel.

Background

Fullerton grew up in Surrey, England, and has three siblings.^[1] She took a law degree at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, graduating in 1985. At Oxford she was a contemporary of London Mayor Boris Johnson.^[2]

After graduation she became an associate director with Credit Suisse First Boston, working in London. She then moved to Sydney, rising capital for businesses and government, where she now lives with one son.

Journalism

Moving to the ABC in 1995, she worked in business journalism and for the TV show Lateline.

She became the presenter of Landline, a TV show dealing with farming issues in Australia. She was then an investigative reporter for Four Corners for five years, before her current role at The Business.

A 2004 broadcast on Four Corners, Lords of the Forest received criticism for alleged political bias towards logging protestors.^[3] The Australian Communications and Media Authority upheld some of these complaints.^[4]

Awards

Fullerton was awarded the Australian Government Peter Hunt Eureka Prize for Environmental Journalism (2004) for "3 provoking reports on issues of national significance – the fate of Tasmania’s forests, the hidden agendas driving waste recycling and the fight for precious water resources".^[5]

Publications

• Fullerton, T. 2001. Watershed: Deciding Our Water Future. Harper Collins/ABC Books, Sydney. ISBN 9780733309991. (Book on the future challenges in Australia over water).

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