Sabra Lane

Sabra Lane (born c.1968) is an Australian journalist and radio presenter. She is best known for her work at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Lane currently presents ABC News Tasmania on weekends. Previously, Sabra hosted the AM current affairs program on ABC Local Radio and ABC Radio National from 2017 to 2025.

After completing Year 12, Lane spent a year in Norway on a Rotary Youth Exchange program. She lived on an island on the southwest coast of the country and learnt to speak fluent Norwegian in the local dialect.

Career While studying on the Magill campus of the University of South Australia in Adelaide in the late 1980s, Lane worked at Network Ten's local television station where she was initially required to listen to police scanners on Friday and Saturday nights before becoming an assistant chief of staff for a year.

In 2014, she was elected to the board of the National Press Club in 2014, becoming its president in February 2018. In 2019, she moderated a leader's debate at the National Press Club between prime minister Scott Morrison and Opposition leader Bill Shorten prior to the 2019 Australian federal election.

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.

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. After the story had gone to air, Lane was overcome with emotion breaking down in tears while attempting to read that day's finance report.

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

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. She will take extended leave before returning to a new role with the ABC.

In February 2026, ABC announced Lane will present ABC News Tasmania on weekends.

Personal life As a teenager, Lane was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome and was incorrectly told by a doctor that she would be unable to have children despite many women being able to do so with the help of fertility treatment, a fact that she did not learn until much later in life. She has also been diagnosed with supraventricular tachycardia.