Sales originally made the announcement that she was stepping away from the, Sales delighted fans when she announced her new gig. Author. True. While she seems to prefer radio, Fran Kelly, who stood down from RN Breakfast very recently, cant be ruled out. All rights reserved. Ms Sanders was anything but fiery but very polite and respectful. AusCelebs Forums - View topic - Leigh Sales They were not hounded only on social media. [5] She said she planned to continue working for the ABC. Channel 10 journalist Hamish MacDonald quit social media because he was attacked while hosting Q&A. As a thought-experiment, imagine Sales interviewing Joe Biden as follows: Mr Biden, last March your staffer Tara Reade alleged you sexually assaulted her. The current leaders, Rebecca Latham and Caitlin Shea, carry on the tradition admirably., A post shared by Leigh Sales (@leigh_sales). As she wraps up her career at ABC's 7.30, Leigh Sales has revealed her true thoughts on the Australian Prime Ministers she has interviewed during her time at the current affairs program. Leigh Sales,journalist, author, mother-of-two and host of ABCs7.30, is known for her wide-ranging political interviews and no-nonsense approach to her high-profile subject. But they arent ashamed. LS:I think its going to take outside the media changing. You spend a lot of time and money trying to establish the ABC branddo not destroy it! Nationwide News Pty Ltd 2023. Her interview with John Laws in 2012 was another standout, although she left it out of her list of memorable moments when announcing her decision to leave on Thursday. But one only has to look at the barrage of social media abuse experienced by prominent progressive women such as Gillian Triggs, Yassmin Abdel-Magied and, of course, Julia Gillard to see that abuse is hardly confined to political stance. Sales has a long history with the network, having jumped on board with theABCin Brisbane in 1995 as a junior reporter before securing a number of senior roles within the news organisation, such as NSW State Political Reporter and National Security Correspondent. Curtis is (at least) a second-generation Democrat. [13] The book covers Hicks' case as well as a detailed explanation of the Bush administration's detainee policy in the War on Terror[14] and the Australian government's cooperation. ABC Classic FM is OK but it does play an awful lot of dirges, good for you music that obviously seriously musically-minded people enjoy, but that people driving along hoping to get something tuneful they know and love in the classical canon will rarely find. Am I prepared to see these disappear? [i] She added soon after: Youre not addressing my point which is that he said that he thinks science doesnt know that the planet is warming. She was one half of a double-header with Chris Uhlmann, then an ABC political reporter. Its a show where we always go for the person at top of tree. . 114 W Leigh St, Homer, MI 49245 | MLS #22029453 | Zillow But back to Sanders, whom Sales quizzed about Trumps notorious pussy-grabbing comment of 2005, but she didnt put questions to Hillary along similar lines. Next unpack: Sales cant believe that Trump ex-executives would tittle-tattle to the media (she needs to get out more) and yes, the media (especially her ABC) does lie to defame Trump. Caroline was also the most wonderful source of support over the years, not just to me but to so many journalists. Some women, such as Yassmin Abdel-Magied, experienced such sustained and vicious campaigns at the hands of conservatives, that they wereliterally run out of the country. But neither is suggesting that such deplorable behaviour is in any wayconfined to Twitter users or the exclusive domain of the Left. The following was sent to the ABC management Starts at 60 is just for over-60s. Technical Lead / Senior Systems Programmer / Senior Systems Administrator. Suck on that, Kerry OBrien, dissolving the panel, which included Scott Morrison, into fits of laughter and creating a memorable television moment. Leigh Sales (Leigh Peta Sales) is an Australian author and journalist born on 10th May 1973 in Brisbane, Australia. Climate activist Greta Thunberg has called on the world to wake up to the climate emergency, days out from this years UN Climate Summit in Egypt. Get The New Daily free every morning and evening. The show requires a Sydney or Melbourne host and Tingle is based in Canberra. Of course, there are right-wing attacks too but the most ferocious campaigns are reserved for any journalist who questions, in even the most anodyne manner, the policies or public statements of Labor politicians, particularly the Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese, the Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, the Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and the West Australian Premier Mark McGowan. He's written a book capturing the experience titled August in Kabul. Ive been spending recent weeks doing a deep dive into the Australian Story archives, suggesting program ideas, learning their workflows and meeting their team, she revealed. Further evidence that Frank Sinatras famous description of his Australian media persecutors was perceptive, and that nothing much has changed in the half century since. They must not remain protected within the Public Circus cocoon like the rest of the parasitic class which brought us the Chicom flu fiasco. Here is Sales next question to Sanders (real): After the FBI director, James Comey, was fired, as White House spokesperson you said that countless members of the FBI had told the Trump administration, they had no confidence in him. 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The thing that most amazes me with Australian Story is how high the quality of the program has been for so long, and how much they do on so few resources. Copyright 2023 Independent Australia - All rights reserved. The talk inside Aunty is the task of having to juggle the hosting of a national show with her duties as a single mother of two particularly during nearly five months of homeschooling in NSW in 2021 couldnt be underestimated as a contributing factor towards (the) announcement, writes Nick Tabakoff. [iv] ABC News accepts thatthe 14 March segmentwas in error by stating thatMr Trumpcalled the coronavirus outbreak a hoax; it does appear that he was referring to thecriticisms by the Democratic Party of the Federal Governments handling of the coronavirus. Leigh Sales launches into new era of political bullies Leigh Sales has described in detail what is wrong with bullies and trolls who attack her and other female journalists for doing their job. Of great concern too is the ABCs promotion of any fiction which furthers the cause of identity politics. SALES (laughs): Well, and then, you know: also at the end a brutal exit. Lots of advertisers on the UK one. Source: ABC Media Centre. Instead he found disillusionment and disappointment. Russell Yardley FAICD Professional Non-executive. Id love your help with that. [16] This in turn prompted a public conversation on the topic. Sales also hosted the ABC's Australia Votes for the 2016 Australian Election and again for the 2019 election and hosted her last in 2022. California, like the rest of the planet, has warmed 1degC or a bit more in the past 100 years. Jun 5th, 2022 . The way I manage it is by throwing money at the problem and getting people to help me, Sales told The CEO Magazine . In 100 per cent gotcha questioning, Sales called Sanders every kind of liar, sleaze and religious hypocrite. If you missed Scott Morrison's election launch, sorry, interview with Leigh Sales on ABC's 7.30 on Tuesday (5 April), you missed an excellent opportunity to be appraised of all the great things the Morrison Government has done for Australia. Chris Uhlmann and Leigh Sales were initially co-hosts of 7.30 after Kerry OBrien, but the double-header did not last. [v], What Im saying is that our readers and some of our staff cheer us when we take on Donald Trump, but they jeer at us when we take on Joe Biden.. Leigh Sales has done a superb job anchoring 7.30 for the past 12 years and to have someone of the calibre of Sarah Ferguson to take up the baton, working alongside Laura Tingle and the rest of the talented 7.30 team, is terrific news for audiences. Thisfemale journalist, like many others, is certainly not immune to sexist attacks just for taking a progressive stance on IA. Am I alone in being nauseated with every change of location in Gardening Australia being told that we are now on land of the watsamattabrudda tribe sorry, thats First Nation? Try Brookings Institute not Brookings Institutions - embarrassing ! When I consume podcasts I tend to see myself as a member of the audience, not as a member of a community. The appointment of an albeit female Human Rights Commissioner who opposes affirmative consent is up there as well; as is the bullying of Queensland Labor Premier Anastacia Palaszczuk by the IOC President on international television. Thank you so much for years of brilliant journalism. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. 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It pains me to say it, but ABC Classic FM is a valuable product and manages to keep its ideology within bearable limits. And Sales could hardly contain her disdain for Prime Minister Gillard when she began a 7.30 interview with: After recent events, aren't Australians well within their rights to conclude that the Gillard Government is a dysfunctional mess that deserves to be consigned to opposition as soon as possible?. Third, no-one knows the future and if Trump says well get cooling, theres ample scientific justification, including the sunspot impact on climate being now the weakest since the Dalton Minimum in the Little Ice Age in late 18th century. But she is a formidable interviewer and could also be a good fit. In that time, she has hugged Paul McCartney, broken records and ducked flying pots of yoghurt. We all cop criticism here. Comey used the dossier to enable FBI spying on the Trump 2015 election campaign, and also authorised the entrapment of now-vindicated Trump executive Lt Gen Michael Flynn. Those positions are overwhelming filled by men. A great opening for someone who can get it together there. It is ridiculous to cite a puny, human-caused heating of under 1degC in a century as the cause of the wildfires when lax forest management was admitted this week by Californias Governor himself. Its still very blokey there is still a huge way to go., #LeighSales #ABC #womeninmedia #womeninleadershipsummit. In New Zealand, residents want to rebuild their cyclone-ravaged homes but a hard conversation is on the horizon. When I and many like me stop watching, because I can no longer stomach their full-on PC virtue-signalling aboriginal schtick and climate alarmism we can hope that the lower ratings for the show will cause them to mend their ways. Sat Apr 04, 2009 12:05 am. National security, the prime minister told us this week, can have many faces, writes Laura Tingle. These womenwere maliciously targetted by those who may be comfortably characterised as Right-wing and on an array of platforms about which their abusers were not particularly discerning, including Twitter,but also in mainstream publications, and on national radio and television. [30][31] After 20 years of marriage, Sales and Willis separated in December 2016.[32]. So great has the cult of Anzac Day become, any dissenting voices are now attacked, condemned and vilified. Second of all, as the Americans say, Sales makes a fool of herself with her climate assumptions. The warmist scientists never predicted the warming hiatus after 2000, and they might (or might not) be wrong again. Shes new to television, but viewers seem to love political editor Laura Tingle. Whether it's shielding oneself from the vile comments of online trolls or finding the sweet work-life balance, the 7.30 anchor explains the reality of being a woman in the media. Those questions would have been followed up with the reprimand barked at Sanders, Mrs Clinton, you are not addressing my questions., LEIGH SALES: Somebody who has watched 30-plus years of your career would see extreme hours, high pressure, sexism, relentless public attacks, loss of privacy, HILLARY CLINTON (laughs): Ooh, sounds pretty horrible, doesnt it? ABC News clarifies that it was criticisms by the Democratic Party of his handling of the crisis that he called a hoax. ', Defense of 2nd Spanish Republic - 1936, Jimmy Reid: 'A rat race is for rats. Noel Pearson speaks to Sarah Ferguson. 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[4][5] In November 2022, it was announced that Sales had been appointed as the new host of ABC TV's weekly documentary series Australian Story. Leigh Sales (@leigh_sales) Instagram photos and videos leigh_sales Verified Follow 706 posts 137K followers 241 following Leigh Sales Journalist. Sales might be astounded by Trumps statement, I dont think the science knows, actually but any honest scientist would give Trump five stars. From 2008 to 2010, Sales was a co-host of the ABC's Lateline, a late-night national current affairs show with a heavy emphasis on federal politics and international affairs. Rohan Smith @ro_smith 3 min read September 15, 2021 - 12:10AM Enough is enough. ABC colleague Virginia Trioli congratulated Sales for surviving the toughest gig in the toughest of partisan times, and even Sales harshest critics would have to give her that. Powell, as I showed above, is very definitely in cahoots with the Democrats. And I think probably there was a failure of that, because people dont seem to have been listening carefully enough to what the white working class in the United States were saying. I wrote last year about Victorian political reporter Rachel Baxendale being trolled for asking tough questions of Premier Andrews. We will have to accept that many worthy programs currently aired by the Collective will of necessity migrate to commercial channels, and be funded at least in part by paid advertising. A footnote to this is that Sales is being talked about as a replacement for Uhlmann, who has indicated he will retire after the election as Nines political editor. Tony Thomass new book,Come To Think Of It essays to tickle the brain, is availablehereas a book ($34.95) or an e-book ($14.95). Tech billionaire Bill Gates is one of the best known figures on the planet, responsible for decades of philanthropy targeting poverty, disease, infant mortality and more recently COVID. Sales, who was targeted by hardcore Daniel Andrews supporters after attending a coronavirus update in Melbourne earlier this year, said Twitter is dominated by views that are militantly pro-lockdown, pro-covid zero and pro-Labor premiers, and even the tamest of questions in those directions prompts an onslaught. Join the IA newsletter for regular updates on our latest news stories. Chinas social media giant is closing in on Netflix after taking the US by storm, with users spending an astonishing amount on the app each day. In Gillards case, she was run out of office with placards and prominent media personalities calling for her death and the Liberal Party faithfulbrazenly smearing her at glittering fundraising events by serving up menus such as the following: 'Julia GillardKentucky Fried Quail Small Breasts, Huge Thighs and a Big Red Box.'. Ace RV Rentals & Sales offers motorhomes and travel trailers at great rates throughout Virginia, Maryland,. Few people truly knew what the Queen was like behind closed doors, but Australian-born Samantha Cohen had unique insight. Leigh Sales interviews Hillary Clinton - 7.30 Yet this is the topic that the ABCs Leigh Sales chose to champion this week. While it is too early to say who will succeed Sales, the ABC only has to look internally to find a rich list of contenders. I guess its a given on TV that youre going to be made up, Sales says. As I rarely watch anything in real time these days anyway this would not be much of a burden. Theyre sick of the priests who cover up for those kinds of priests.Theyre sick of 59-year-old teachers who rape 15-year-old students.Theyre sick of government after government telling people that theyll close the gap on Indigenous life expectancy and then decade after decade it stubbornly remains at about 20 years. Sales has also, quite literally, had missiles lobbed at her. 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Times have changed. In the media? It usually happens after she gives what is perceived by many progressive users of that social media platform as a poor performance in her main task interviewing politicians. Stan Grant and Virginia Trioli have also been named in the mix. It is a matter for a commercial entity like Twitter to ask itself and my understanding is that it is whether the treatment of journalists, in particular female journalists, on its platform is acceptable, she wrote. He has pledged to vote for Biden in November and is campaigning hard against Trump. leigh sales political views. A late Friday night thread on Twitter abuse and Victorias COVID-19 crisis, for those who are interested #springst .