Rahni Sadler is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n reporter and television journalist. She is sister of Matthew Sadler

Matthew Sadler

Mathew John "Mat" Sadler is an English professional footballer who plays for Walsall. He is a left back who also played in the Premier League and the Football League for Birmingham City and in the Football League for Northampton Town and Stockport County.-Career:Born in Solihull, Sadler began his...

who is a TV and radio presenter and journalist for the ABC

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...

. Brother Vernon Sadler is a social worker in a remote aboriginal community.

Sadler's maternal grandmother Joyce Robertson was editor of rural NSW newspaper The Coonamble Times.

Career

Sadler had “always wanted to be a journalist” and eventually in 1993, after doing work experience in radio landed a job at WIN TV, the Channel 9 affiliate in Canberra. She said she got the job when a “journalist I had had lunch with for half an hour remembered me and recommended me” to someone at the station. Her break as a correspondent in the Parliament press gallery came in 1997. She nearly missed out on the job because she was covering the Thredbo landslide

1997 Thredbo landslide

The Thredbo landslide was a catastrophic landslide that occurred at the village and ski resort of Thredbo, New South Wales, Australia, on 30 July 1997. Two ski lodges were destroyed, and a total of 18 died.- Landslide :...

 for Win News on the day of her job interview with Channel 7. Rahni approached Channel 7's Bureau Chief Glenn Milne

Glenn Milne

Glenn Milne is a Canberra journalist and political commentator. He currently works for News Limited as a columnist for The Australian newspaper....

 on the side of the Thredbo Mountain and he agreed to reschedule.

Sadler was a reporter for Channel 7 in Sydney until she switched to Network Ten

Network Ten

Network Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country...

 in 2003 where she became a correspondent in the channels' Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

 Bureau. Channel 7 poached her back in February 2007, although this time in its Los Angeles Bureau. She controversially replaced Channel 7's Los Angeles Correspondent Louise Pennell, who was informed of her impending replacement by the Bureau's Chief Cameraman Trent Miller. Trent knew what was going on because he was Rahni's boyfriend. Trent was forced to reveal the details to Louise after another member of Seven's L.A. Bureau told her accidentally. Louise launched legal action and later reached an out-of-court settlement.

Rahni is noted for her enthusiastic coverage of the inauguration of US President Barack Obama from Washington in January 2009. http://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/b/sunrise/21499/rahnis-obamania/

In 1995 Rahni directed Sydney University's first Arts Review alongside Chaser members Craig Reucassel

Craig Reucassel

Craig Bruce Reucassel is a television and radio comedian from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is best known for being a member of satirical team The Chaser...

, Andrew Hansen

Andrew Hansen

Andrew John Hansen is an Australian comedian and musician, best known for being a member of satirical team The Chaser...

 and Charles Firth as well as media personality Adam Spencer

Adam Spencer

Adam Barrington Spencer is an Australian radio presenter, comedian, and media personality. He first came to fame when he won his round of the comedic talent search Raw Comedy in the mid-1990s...

.

Salder has recently returned from the US and has taken up the position of a reporter on Seven's Sunday Night

Sunday Night (Australian TV program)

Sunday Night is an Australian news and current affairs program produced and broadcast by the Seven Network. The program airs on Sunday nights at 6:30 pm, and is presented by Seven News Sydney presenter Chris Bath.-Overview:...

. She is also a fill in presenter for Samantha Armytage

Samantha Armytage

Samantha Armytage is an Australian journalist and television news presenter.Armytage is currently presenter of Seven 4.30 News , and co-host of Weekend Sunrise and she is also a regular fill-in presenter for various Seven Network programs.-Early life:Armytage grew up on a historic property, called...

 on Weekend Sunrise

Weekend Sunrise

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.

Personal life

Sadler attended Santa Sabina College

Santa Sabina College

Santa Sabina College, is a Roman Catholic, Dominican, day school for girls K-12 and boys K-4, located in Strathfield, an inner-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia....

 in the Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

 suburb of Strathfield

Strathfield, New South Wales

Strathfield is an Inner West suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Strathfield is located 14 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre of the local government area of the Municipality of Strathfield...

, a day school for girls K-12. She completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at Sydney University, participating in the Honours program in the Political Science (Government) Department.

Sadler had an early inquisitive mind for news and politics and is reported as saying the following with references to the sacking of the 1975 Whitlam

Gough Whitlam

Edward Gough Whitlam, AC, QC , known as Gough Whitlam , served as the 21st Prime Minister of Australia. Whitlam led the Australian Labor Party to power at the 1972 election and retained government at the 1974 election, before being dismissed by Governor-General Sir John Kerr at the climax of the...

 government. "The first time I heard about 1975 was when I was standing in a lift. I was seven and we were going to Singapore and we were getting our injections and mum whispered ‘That’s the man that sacked the Prime Minister,’ and I said ‘Oh, so?’ It meant nothing to me, mum said ‘Oh, that’s Sir John Kerr.’ And I remember for years it played on my mind: ‘How could you possibly sack the Prime Minister?'"

Rahni married Channel 7's LA Bureau cameraman Trent Miller in Lorne, Victoria in December 2008. She and Miller split in December 2009 two weeks after surviving a near fatal rockfall.