SALLY LOANE
Director, Media & Public Affairs
Coca Cola Amatil
Sally Loane is a former journalist and broadcaster who most recently presented the
Morning program on 702 ABC Sydney. She joined the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation in 1999 after more than 20 years as a political journalist, columnist and
feature writer with Australia’s leading broadsheet and tabloid newspapers, including
The National Times, The Times on Sunday, The Australian, The Age, The Sydney
Morning Herald, The Courier-Mail, the Sun Herald and the Brisbane Sun. She
worked as a reporter and newsreader on Channel 10 and spent a year living in South
Africa where she worked as a consumer correspondent for The Daily News in
Durban. Sally spent several years reporting in the Queensland press gallery, then
three years in the press gallery in Federal Parliament, Canberra.
She contributed regularly to newspapers, journals and magazines, and was a regular
guest on Sky News’s political current affairs program, Agenda.
Sally graduated from the University of Queensland with an Arts degree majoring in
English, politics and journalism. Her first book, “Who Cares? Guilt, Hope and the
Child Care Debate”, an investigation into Australia’s child care industry, was
published in 1997. She has contributed chapters to the books “What Women Want”
and “My Sporting Hero.”
Sally is a member of the Board of SCEGGS Darlinghurst. She has moved from the
media to the corporate sector, and in mid-January 2006 was appointed Director,
Media and Public Affairs with Coca-Cola Amatil.
Sally’s favourite food is Sushi and lamb roast with baked vegetables (presumably not
together!). She is inspired by her sister, who's fought breast cancer, and her two
children. She believes it will be mankind's intellect and instinct for survival and
technological breakthroughs that will save our planet.