16 Facts About Sabra Lane

Sabra Lane was born in Melbourne, Victoria, and grew up the regional city of Mildura where she attended Catholic school St Joseph's College.

Sabra Lane then got a job with the local ABC station in Adelaide where she worked as a reporter.

In 1995, Sabra Lane transferred to the ABC's Sydney station where she became chief of staff of the newsroom.

From late 1997 to 2005, Sabra Lane worked for the Seven Network as a producer.

Sabra Lane helped produce the network's coverage of the Sydney Olympics and served as the executive producer of Sunday Sunrise.

Sabra Lane returned to the ABC in 2006 to work for the network's radio current affairs department after studying an audio engineering course at night school.

From 2013 to 2017, Sabra Lane was a political correspondent for ABC Television's 7.30 program, succeeding Chris Uhlmann.

Sabra Lane moved back to radio in 2017 after she was named as the new host of AM, succeeding Michael Brissenden and taking over the show in its 50th year on air.

Sabra Lane received praise in 2019 for her raw emotional response live on air immediately following the broadcast of a story by foreign correspondent Samantha Hawley about a Ukrainian girl who was allegedly abandoned by her American surrogate parents.

In late 2020, Sabra Lane relocated to Tasmania where she continued to host AM from the studios of ABC Radio Hobart.

Sabra Lane relinquished her position as president of the National Press Club prior to relocating to Hobart.

In 2021, Sabra Lane commenced curating a fortnightly collection of stories for ABC viewers, listeners and readers called The Bright Side which uses constructive journalism to cover solution-focused news stories to provide "a broader picture" to "inspire, engage and create hope" aiming to balance out the large amount of negative conflict-based stories Australians are subject to in the traditional news cycle.

In 2022, Sabra Lane co-anchored ABC Radio's coverage of the 2022 Australian federal election with Rafael Epstein.

Sabra Lane has listed her two most memorable interviews from her career to date as being the ones she conducted with Barry Cohen about his struggle with Alzheimer's disease, and with Craig Laundy about his push for a change in government policy to enable more refugees into Australia.

Sabra Lane has lamented the loss of newspapers in many Australian towns and the subsequent loss of jobs in Australian journalism, describing it as "a huge tragedy".

Sabra Lane joined the committee of the Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Association of Australia in 2004, eventually becoming president.