Sarah Harris (born 13 July 1981) is an Australian television presenter and journalist. She is currently a co-host on

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's '' The Project'' and previously co-hosted the morning talk show ''

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''.

Early life

Harris grew up in a block of housing commission flats in

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, a western suburb of Sydney. She has one younger brother. Her father died of prostate cancer at 50. She is of Croatian descent through her grandparents, who emigrated to Australia.

Career

Harris studied journalism and international business at

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. Her journalism career started in 1997 at the

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in Brisbane, where she filed reports for ''

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'' and later ''

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''. In June 2001, she joined '' Prime Gold Coast News'' where she was a freelance television reporter and presenter. She then moved back to the

in Brisbane where she was a cadet news reporter and writer. In 2002, Harris joined the

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and became a reporter, researcher, and fill-in presenter on ''

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''. She also joined ''

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'' as a reporter and ''

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''. She delivered live reports from the scene of the

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in November 2004, as well as Sir

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’s funeral in

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in 2005. She left ''Today'' in 2005 to become a reporter and fill-in presenter on ''National Nine News'' in Brisbane. In 2007, Harris moved to Sydney to become a ''Today'' reporter and a fill-in news presenter. She was also a fill-in news presenter on '' Nine Morning News'', '' Nine Afternoon News'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. In 2012, Harris was the main fill-in presenter for

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on '' Mornings''. She also filled in for

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on ''Weekend Today'' whilst she was on maternity leave. In August 2013, she resigned from the Nine Network to join Network Ten's then new morning program, ''

'' as a co-host with

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and

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. She waw also a fill-in host on

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program '' The Project''. In November 2014, Harris was announced as the host of ''

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''. In February 2016, Harris was welcomed to the ''

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'' round table as a Black Dame by Adam Curry and John C Dvorak. On 23 November 2022, Sarah announced that she would be leaving ''

'' after hosting the show for nine years to become a new co-host of '' The Project'' in 2023 after the departure of the show's longest running co-host

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in December 2022. In June 2025, ''The Project'' was cancelled by 10, with Harris subsequently leaving the network.

Personal life

Harris married information technology specialist Tom Ward in Sydney in 2014. Harris and Ward have two children. In March 2021, Harris announced that she and Ward are "taking time apart however we remain good friends and deeply committed to co-parenting our two beautiful boys". Harris prefers 90s fashion, especially

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tights. Her favorite designers are Scanlan Theodore,

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, Cue,

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and Bianca Spender.

References

External links

Sarah Harris at ''Studio 10''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Harris, Sarah 1981 births Living people Australian people of Croatian descent 20th-century Australian journalists 21st-century Australian journalists 21st-century Australian women journalists Australian women television journalists Australian women television presenters Journalists from Sydney 20th-century Australian women journalists