Sally Bowrey is an Australian

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and

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for the

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, based in

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, Australia. Bowrey is currently news presenter on the

's ''

Weekend Sunrise ''Weekend Sunrise'' is an Australian breakfast television program, broadcast on the Seven Network and currently hosted by Monique Wright and Matt Doran. History In 2005 the Seven Network replaced its struggling Sunday morning program ''Sunday ...

''.

Early life and education

Bowrey was born and raised in

. She earned a degree in journalism from

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in Bathurst in 2003."Sally Bowrey: Meet the Weekend Sunrise team"
Seven Network, 4 September 2020, updated 7 September 2020, retrieved 9 November 2020.

Career

She began her career at

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, anchoring Arena News Updates. In 2004 she became a

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, where in 2005 she became the host of the morning programme, ''Your Weather Today''. For four years beginning in 2009, she worked at TVW in

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

, an affiliate of the Seven Network, as the weekend

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and as a reporter for the network's

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n news bulletin. In 2012, Bowrey returned to Sydney, where she filled in as a weather presenter for

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whilst she was on

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, and the following year, when ''Seven News'' began a live evening news bulletin, '' Seven News at 7'', became the presenter for the Western Australia version.Jessie Stoelwinder
"Bowery gets back to Perth roots"
''The West Australian'', 15 August 2013. That programme was ended in April 2014; at the end of 2015 she again replaced Cumming during her maternity leave,Sally Rawesthorne
"Sarah Cumming and Stuart Dew keep baby’s sex under wraps"
''The Daily Telegraph'', 24 September 2015. as the weather presenter for the news bulletins at 4pm and 7pm, and she has since presented both weather and news on ''

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'', hosted coverage of the Queensland floods, and since 2016 been a presenter on ''

'', where she is the news and sport presenter."Weekend Sunrise presenter Sally Bowrey’s second child a baby girl"
''The Daily Telegraph'', 20 November 2016.

Personal life

Bowrey married Richard Seddon, a property development manager, in 2010; they have a son and a daughter.

References

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bowrey, Sally Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Australian television journalists Australian television presenters Australian women television presenters Australian women journalists Journalists from Sydney Charles Sturt University alumni