 Sara has won many awards in her career including a UN Media Peace Award and was named South Australian Young Journalist of the Year and won the British Prize for Journalism.Sara won three awards in the Dalgety Awards for Excellence in Rural Journalism in 1993 and won the John Douglas Pringle Award in 1999.Sara has been a finalist in the Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism six times and in 2017 she won a Walkley Award for her report on famine in Somaliland (2017 Walkley Awards).