At the start of this year, there was a distinctly Leigh-Sales-shaped hole in our nightly-news-watching hearts. But, over the past six months, a Sarah-Ferguson-shaped plug may well have filled it.

After making the temporary move from Four Corners to 7:30, Sarah Ferguson has proven that she is willing to take anyone and everyone to task. Her ability to ask the hard questions was highlighted after she made Clive Palmer storm out on the program recently:

Here are 8 other times Sarah Ferguson smashed it out of the proverbial park.

1. She artfully taught Joe Hockey the meaning of the word “promise”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPDBi3o3WQw

2. And respectfully managed Christopher Pyne, when he definitely did not afford her the same respect:

3. She took Bill Shorten to task about union corruption:

4. She runs a damn good Twitter account.

Where else can you get insightful retweets of foreign policy cheat sheets, clarifications of ABC stories, Australian news as it happens… and this:

Seriously, follow her here.

5. Still worshipping her social media presence, this is her Twitter picture:

Damn right, bitchez.

6. She proved that Palmer United Party senator Dio Wang kind of didn’t really know anything about, well, the Palmer United Party:

Read the full transcript here.

7. The following three lines opened her Fairfax profile last week:

Read the whole thing here.

8. And she gave this answer to the Walkley Foundation’s Storyology Summit website:

You can read the rest of her Q&A here.

Are you loving Sarah Ferguson on 7.30?