Sharlyn Sarac was born on 21 January 1980 in

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and entered the media at age 17. Sarac presented the weekend edition of '' Nine News Perth''Channel Nine Perth announce changes to News
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'' in Perth, she attended the WA Academy of Performing Arts Broadcasting course from 1998–2000 and later worked as a reporter at GWN, a Western Australia regional station. Later moving back to ''

'', she became a general reporter for the 5pm news in Perth. In 2004, Sarac joined ''

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'' in Perth where she presents the weekend news and reports on 3 days a week. She has also covered

Sonia Vinci Sonia Vinci (born 1971) is a former journalist and co-anchor of ''Nine News'' in Perth. She began a journalist in 1990 at Perth radio 6PR and later became Australia's youngest female news director. During her time at 6PR, Sonia also worked at C ...

's maternity leave. She is also a reporter on Nine's local summer lifestyle program ''Just Add Water''. She has filed numerous stories including interviews with world champion sailors Elise Rechichi and Tessa Parkinson, Olympic rower Ben Curaton as well as taking to the surf herself with H2O Surf Adventures at Scarborough Beach. In 2010, Sarac resigned from co-presenting weekend news with

Matt Tinney Matt Tinney (born 23 May 1984) is an Australian journalist. He is currently a presenter and reporter at Seven News#Perth, ''Seven News Perth'' and Perth correspondent on Sunrise (Australian TV program), ''Sunrise''. Career Tinney began his repo ...

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