Sabra Lane Biography
Sabra Lane is a well-known Australian journalist and radio personality who worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She is the current affairs host of AM on ABC Local Radio and ABC Radio National.
How old is Sabra Lane? – Age
She is 55 years old as of 2023. She was born in 1968 in Melbourne, Australia.
Sabra Lane Family – Education
Lane was born in Melbourne, Victoria, and grew up in the remote city of Mildura, where she attended St Joseph’s College, a Catholic school. Lane spent a year in Norway after finishing Year 12 on a Rotary Youth Exchange program, where she stayed on an island off Norway’s southwest coast and learned to speak fluent Norwegian in the local dialect.
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Lane moved to Tasmania in late 2020, where she continues to host AM from the ABC Radio Hobart studios. Prior to going to Hobart, she resigned as president of the National Press Club.
Sabra Lane Illness
Lane was diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome as a teenager and was mistakenly told by a doctor that she would be unable to have children, despite the fact that many women are able to do so with the help of fertility therapy, something she didn’t realize until much later in life. Lane joined the Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Association of Australia’s committee in 2004, eventually becoming president. Lane is also suffering from supraventricular tachycardia.
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Lane returned to the ABC in 2006 to work in the network’s radio current affairs section after attending night school to study audio engineering. Lane returned to radio in 2017 as the new host of AM, succeeding Michael Brissenden and taking over the show in its 50th year on the air.
Lane moved to Tasmania in late 2020, where she continues to host AM from the ABC Radio Hobart studios. Prior to going to Hobart, she resigned as president of the National Press Club. Lane and Rafael Epstein co-anchored ABC Radio’s coverage of the 2022 Australian federal election 2022.
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After that, Lane got a job as a reporter at the local ABC station in Adelaide. In 1995, Path moved to ABC’s Sydney station where she became head of staff of the newsroom. Lane was a producer for the Seven Network from late 1997 to 2005. She was the executive producer of Sunday Sunrise and contributed to the network’s coverage of the Sydney Olympics.
Path got back to ABC in 2006 to work for the organization’s radio current undertakings office in the wake of concentrating on a sound designing course around evening time school. She moved to Canberra in 2008 to work as a reporter in Parliament House’s press gallery. While there, she covered federal politics for the ABC programs AM, The World Today, and PM. During this time, she was promoted to chief radio current affairs correspondent.
Lane succeeded Chris Uhlmann as a political correspondent for ABC Television’s 7.30 program from 2013 to 2017. In 2022, Path co-moored ABC Radio’s inclusion of the 2022 Australian government political decision with Rafael Epstein.
Lane has cited the interviews she conducted with Barry Cohen about his battle with Alzheimer’s disease and with Craig Laundy about his push for a change in government policy to allow more refugees into Australia as her two most memorable from her career thus far.
Lane has called the demise of newspapers in numerous Australian towns and the resulting loss of journalism jobs in Australia “a huge tragedy.” She expressed: ” In this day and age, when so much false information and “fake news” circulates online, the importance of diversity of viewpoints and, most importantly, the fundamental requirement of factual and balanced news has never been greater. The fact that so many towns have lost their regular newspapers and reliable information sources is shocking. Another reason why the ABC has never been more important is because of this. We won’t be able to completely fill the gap, but we can help communities stay informed by providing accurate, dependable, and credible reporting.”