PERSON: Sarah Ferguson

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Reporter

Sarah Ferguson (born 31 December 1965) is an Australian journalist, reporter and television presenter. She is the host of ABC TV’s flagship news and current affairs program 7.30. She was previously a journalist for Dateline, Insight, Sunday and Four Corners.

Ferguson was born in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1965 to Iain and Marjorie. She has two older brothers. The onset of the Nigerian Civil War led the family to move back to the United Kingdom when Ferguson was a toddler. She attended New Hall, a Catholic-run private girls school in Boreham, Essex. She later studied English literature at King’s College, London. In her early teens, she began a correspondence with the poet Philip Larkin. In a teenage essay she said that she wanted to be “a commando and a librarian in the British House of Commons”.

Ferguson married journalist Tony Jones in 1992 or 1993. They have three sons, including one from Jones’ previous relationship.

In 2017, the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters was conferred on Ferguson by the University of Sydney for excellence in journalism.

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