15 Facts About Sally Rugg

Sally Rugg is an Australian LGBTIQ activist, feminist and political staffer.

Sally Rugg was one of the many public faces of the "YES" campaign in the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey and campaigns for Safe Schools.

Until her highly publicised dismissal in 2022, Sally Rugg served as the Chief of Staff for Independent Member of Parliament, Monique Ryan.

Sally Rugg then started working at the organisation GetUp, while doing her master's degree in arts.

Sally Rugg attended events in the Australian Capital Territory when same-sex marriage was made legal for six days, which she says informed her views.

Sally Rugg has won numerous awards due to her campaigning for the YES same-sex marriage vote.

In 2018, Sally Rugg was awarded the FBi Radio SMAC of the Year award for her work on the YES same-sex marriage campaign and Strayan of the Year by Pedestrian.

In 2017, Sally Rugg was named among Harper's Bazaar's 5 Women of The Year, by Cosmopolitan magazine as one of Australia's Most Influential LGBTIQ people, ranked first in Mammamia's Most Powerful LGBTIQ Women list, by Amnesty International's Top 15 Women Championing Human Rights In Australia.

Sally Rugg was awarded the Young Achiever Award at the 2016 Honour Awards.

Sally Rugg was a finalist for the Honour Awards Young Achiever Award in 2015, was named among the 23 LGBT Australians to Watch in 2016 by SX Magazine and the Top 40 Under Forty by TimeOut, and won the New South Wales Honour Awards Young Achiever Award in 2016.

Sally Rugg writes regularly on activism and feminism, as well as LGBTIQ and human rights.

Sally Rugg's work has been published in media including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, Vice, Pedestrian as well as Junkee.

Sally Rugg was a contributing author for books including The Full Catastrophe, as well as Growing Up Queer in Australia,.

Sally Rugg lost an injunction on 7 March 2023 to stop her termination as Ryan's chief of staff.

On 8 May 2023, Sally Rugg accepted a settlement of approximately $100,000 with no admission of fault by Ryan or the government, with all parties paying their own costs.