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Leigh Sales AM

Leigh Sales AM is one of Australia's most high-profile and respected journalists and has been at the helm of 7.30 since 2011. She was awarded an Order of Australia in 2019 for her services to journalism.

She anchors the ABC's federal election and budget night broadcasts and has interviewed every living Australian Prime Minister. She has also interviewed innumerable world leaders and celebrities including Hillary Clinton, Boris Johnson, David Cameron, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Dalai Lama, Aung San Suu Kyi, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Harrison Ford, Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood and many more.

From 2008-2010, Leigh anchored the ABC's prestigious Lateline program and before that was the ABC's National Security Correspondent. From 2001 to 2006, she was the network's Washington Correspondent, covering stories including the aftermath of September 11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the 2004 Presidential election and Hurricane Katrina. She grew up in Brisbane and started her reporting career in Queensland in 1993 with Channel Nine.

She has three Walkley awards, Australia's highest journalism honour, for radio current affairs reporting, broadcast interviewing and for her best-selling 2018 book, Any Ordinary Day. She is the author of three other books, Detainee 002: the Case of David Hicks (2007), On Doubt (2009) and Well Hello (2021), co-written with journalist Annabel Crabb. Leigh's writing has appeared in numerous publications including The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Spectator, The Monthly and The Australian Literary Review.

With Annabel Crabb, Leigh co-hosts a popular podcast called Chat 10 Looks 3 about TV, movies, books and music. It has hundreds of thousands of subscribers and won two categories at the 2019 Australian podcast awards.

Annabel Crabb

Annabel Crabb is an ABC writer and presenter who has covered Australian politics for nearly 25 years as a news reporter and columnist.

She is the creator and presenter of Ms Represented, presenter and writer for the ABC-wide Australia Talks project, and co-host of the initial and 2021 return series of Tomorrow Tonight, with Charlie Pickering. She has written and presented the documentary series on life inside parliament, The House, With Annabel Crabb. She created the political interview series Kitchen Cabinet, which she has presented for seven seasons on ABC TV, and for which she received two Logie nominations in 2013 including the Graham Kennedy Award For Most Outstanding New Talent and Most Popular New Female Talent.

Annabel is also host of the ABC Australian history and food series, Back In Time For Dinner, Further Back In Time For Dinner and Back In Time For The Corner Shop. She is a regular face on ABC TV's election night and Budget broadcasts and has a long history of appearances on ABC's Insiders program, including a stint as acting host in 2019. She has won a Walkley Award for feature writing, with her Quarterly Essay entitled Stop At Nothing: The Life And Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull.

She is a regular commentator across the ABC's radio network. With friend and ABC colleague Leigh Sales, Annabel hosts the podcast Chat 10 Looks 3, an independent podcast in which the pair discusses books, film, culture, and cooking. Their first book together, Well Hello, was published in September 2021.