Sandra Sully is one of the most recognisable faces on Australian television. With 26 years at Channel Ten, her extensive journalistic career is littered with highlights but perhaps none are more significant and poignant as the September 11 terror attacks. With calm and poise, Sandra was the first person to tell Australia about the tragic events unfolding before her eyes while delivering a professional news bulletin on the world’s worst terrorist attack.

During an impressive career, Sandra has hosted major Network news events including the Federal Budget, the Royal Wedding coverage from London and Oprah Winfrey’s Big ‘O’ event at the Botanical Gardens. She also co-hosted TEN’s interactive, real-life crime series Wanted.

For 18 years, Sandra was the highly popular Presenter and Senior Editor of TEN Late News with Sports Tonight. In that role, she was the first Australian journalist to break the news of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States. She subsequently covered anniversary commemorations of both the Bali bombings and the September 11 attacks.

Sandra’s documentary credits include travelling to Timor in 2010 to produce Independent Future, a report on how the then new nation was coping post-liberation.

In 2009, her documentary Sandakan – Sheer Bloody Murder revealed the tragic story of hardship and horror faced by Australian prisoners of war in Borneo on the infamous death marches of World War II. It premiered on Network Ten over the Anzac Day weekend that year.

Sandra was also one of the first on the scene at one of Australia’s worst natural disasters, the Thredbo landslide, and covered the emotional rescue of Stuart Diver in 1997.