Sarah Abo

Sarah brings great experience to 60 Minutes following an impressive career at SBS’s World News and Dateline programs where she covered major international events including the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, the 2015 Paris Climate Conference and in 2016, both the US presidential election and the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan. In 2017 and 2018 Sarah also covered the refugee crisis in Lebanon, Turkey and Greece. 

In 2014. Sarah completed a fellowship at CNN headquarters in Atlanta.

In between overseas assignments she has reported headline-making news stories in Australia, especially in her home-state Victoria. These include the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse, the official visit to Australia of Chinese President Xi Jinping, bushfires, major court cases and the machinations of state and federal election campaigns.

Sarah started her career at Network Ten, spending two years in the Adelaide newsroom before making the move back to Melbourne. In 2013, she joined SBS as a journalist and presenter. 

Sarah is a fan of photography and is often snapping away while on location. 

Melbourne-based Sarah was born in Damascus in Syria and moved to Australia with her family when she was four.