In November 2022, it was announced that Sales had been appointed as the new host of ABC TV's weekly documentary series Australian Story.

Leigh Peta Sales[1][2] was born on 10 May 1973[3][4][better source needed] in Brisbane and attended Aspley State High School in that city.

[5] Since then, Sales has held several prominent roles with the ABC and was New South Wales political reporter covering the 1999 and 2007 state elections.

[9][10] She has interviewed every living Australian prime minister and many world leaders and celebrities, including Hillary Clinton,[11] the Dalai Lama,[12] Aung San Suu Kyi, Paul McCartney,[9] Patti Smith, and Salman Rushdie.

[9] In November 2022 Sales was announced as the new host of ABC TV's weekly biographical documentary series Australian Story, commencing in early 2023.

[14] In May 2024, Sales was announced as a mentor of autistic journalism students at Macquarie University for ABC TV's new interview documentary series The Assembly, based on a French format,[15] which premiered on 20 August 2024.

[17] The book covers Hicks' case as well as a detailed explanation of the Bush administration's detainee policy in the war on terror and the Australian Government's cooperation.

[7] It covers the rise of opinion in place of straight news reporting and the value of bringing a sceptical mindset to politics and policy, instead of ideological certainty.

[citation needed] In the wake of fellow ABC presenters Hamish Macdonald and Lisa Millar both deactivating their Twitter accounts due to the high level of personal abuse they received on the platform, Sales wrote an opinion piece for the ABC in September 2021 exploring the issue of bullying received by journalists on Twitter which she described as "insidious" and "unhinged".

[31] Self-proclaimed "chatters or chatterati" have formed a Chat 10 Looks 3 community on social media platforms[32] built around the same tenets as the podcast – friendship, kindness, and an agreement to not discuss politics.

[8] For Detainee 002: The Case of David Hicks, she won the George Munster Award for Independent Journalism in 2007, and the book was nominated for the Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction in 2008.