Sally Sara

Sally Jane Sara AM (born 2 March 1971 in Port Pirie, South Australia) is an Australian journalist and TV presenter.

Sara grew up in Port Broughton, South Australia, attended Port Broughton Area School, Kadina Memorial High School and Pembroke School in Adelaide. She attended the University of South Australia undertaking Bachelor of Arts in Communication. During this time she was resident at St Mark's College in North Adelaide.

Sara's career began with Outback Radio (2WEB) in Bourke, New South Wales. Sara then joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in the late 1990s with stints at Renmark, Adelaide, Melbourne and Canberra.

Sara was the ABC's Africa Correspondent from 2000 to 2005, the first woman to hold this post. She has also reported from Jakarta, the Middle East and London during the 2005 London Bombings. In February 2006, Sara became the presenter of the ABC's Landline. In September 2007, Sally was awarded the Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship, that recognises women in Journalism, which entails study overseas. In November 2008 she took up the post as the ABC's South Asia Correspondent based in New Delhi, India.

From February to December 2011, Sara was based in Kabul as the ABC's Afghanistan correspondent which included numerous assignments in the field reporting on the war from both the Afghan and NATO sides of the conflict. Sally spent one year covering the war in Afghanistan. She reported from the frontline, entrenched with coalition forces. Sara has covered terrorist attacks, political unrest and followed the rebuilding of the country. Despite many restrictions on the activities of women in Afghanistan, Sara said she never faced a situation where she was denied interviews with officials or religious leaders. She was permitted entrance to the private homes of women – forbidden to male reporters – which allowed her more access in her role as a foreign correspondent. In a society segregated by gender, Sara said that being a female reporter allowed her 'to have access to women to be able to tell their stories – and that's really important. In a place like Afghanistan women and children make up almost three quarters of the population so it's crucial that their voices are heard.' After almost twelve years as a foreign correspondent, reporting from over 30 countries, The ABC correspondent returned to Australia from Afghanistan to become the ABC's regional and rural affairs correspondent. In August 2013, Sara joined the long running ABC program, Foreign Correspondent.

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