Ticky Fullerton (born 2 November 1963) is an English-born Australian journalist and TV presenter. Fullerton has hosted '' The Business'' on

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, ''Ticky'' on

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and Your Money. She was previously a fill-in presenter of ''

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Personal life

Fullerton grew up in

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, England, and has three siblings. She took a law degree at

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, graduating in 1985. At Oxford she was a contemporary of British Prime Minister

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. After graduation she became an associate director with

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, working in London. She then worked for Credit Suisse First Boston in Sydney, raising capital for businesses and government. She currently lives in Sydney with one son. In July 2018, Fullerton married

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in the UK.

Career

Moving to the ABC in 1995, Fullerton worked in business journalism and for the TV show ''

''. She then became the presenter of ''

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'', a TV show dealing with farming issues in Australia. Following that, she moved into investigative reporting for ''

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'' for five years, and later presented ''Lateline Business'' (which became ''The Business'') until 2 December 2016, when Elysse Morgan replaced her. "Lords of the Forest", a 2004 episode of ''Four Corners'' presented by Fullerton, was criticised for bias in favour of logging protesters. The

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upheld some of the complaints. In February 2017,

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announced that Fullerton would host ''Ticky'', a new business programme on

. After writing columns for ''

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'' for two years, she was appointed in January 2021 as their business

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. In January 2023, it was announced that Fullerton had been appointed the chief executive of the Australian British Chamber of Commerce, effective 1 March 2023.

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".

Publications

*Fullerton, T. 2001. ''Watershed: Deciding Our Water Future''. Harper Collins/ABC Books, Sydney. .

References

External links

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