Tracey Holmes says the treatment of her husband, Stan Grant, was a key factor in her decision to leave the ABC. But it was far from the only reason.
Tracey Holmes has been at the ABC for most of the past 35 years. She has just announced that she will be leaving at the end of the year. I spoke to her on Thursday.: Tracey, your career in sports journalism so far spans five decades, and you’re still warming up! As one of those who forged a female path in the previously all-male forest, you must have some war stories of what it was like to go over the top and charge, in those dark days?] It was a State of Origin match in Sydney, 1989.
This prompted your mum, managing the Humphreys Newsagents at Manly, to put all those papers in the back room and say: “Sorry, we are all sold out!” We can laugh about it now, but at the time was that just the worst time ever – even before the days of social media?: Yeah. And we’ve been through several iterations of that. But the same way I try to look at countries and politics from the outside and looking in, I look at things like that and social media attacks and it doesn’t perturb me.
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