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Georgie Gardner is a National Nine News presenter and Today Show newsreader. She joined the Nine Network in 2002 to present weather on National Nine News Sydney and to present afternoon updates. In 2005, National Nine News added a semi-national news bulletin at 4:30 pm, which Gardner was the original host of before later moving to the 11:00 am news.

Gardner has formerly worked at Network Ten as a reporter and presenter for Ten News. Her most prominent national role came with the Seven Network as co-anchor for Seven News Sunrise where she presented with Mark Beretta before the program was changed from morning news, to morning public affairs programming, she held the position for 2 years before acting as a fill-in presenter for Seven News and Sky News Australia.

She is the only Australian news anchor to have hosted the late news bulletin on each commercial TV station, having filled in as presenter of the Ten Late News, full-time anchor of Seven Nightly News Late, and then as a substitute anchor of Nightline, the late night version of National Nine News.

On Monday 6 August 2007, Gardner returned to the Today Show after 6 months maternity leave to present the news on a permanent basis. Permanently replacing Sharyn Ghidella who resigned in December 2006 and moved to the Seven Network to present Seven News in Brisbane.

On 3 October 2007, Gardner was reading the 6am news bulletin when she started to break down due to the death of West Coast Eagle star Chris Mainwaring. She explained to viewers that the former footy star and his wife were very close friends of hers from Perth, where she grew up. Today co-host Karl Stefanovic took over reading the remainder of the bulletin, while finance reporter Amber Higlett took over for the rest of the show.

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