ABC journalist Leigh Sales calls out trolls after being attacked over Scott Morrison interview on 7.30

Australian journalist Leigh Sales has detailed the lewd online abuse she suffered in the wake of her TV interview with Scott Morrison.

The award-winning ABC journalist interviewed the Prime Minister on 7.30 on Tuesday night, triggering a series of hateful messages online.

Sharing screenshots of other peoples tweets, Sales wrote that she “just spent a few minutes collecting a fraction of the sexualised abuse I get every time I interview a Prime Minister.”

“Female politicians, journalists, public figures get this non-stop,” she wrote.

Sales was asking tough questions of the nation’s leader before being attacked by trolls who told her “(she) pretty much sits on his lap whenever she ‘interviews’ him”.

One of the lewd tweets said she was “in desperate need of a vibrator.”

“@leighsales is a Lefty POS. Remember how she behaved like a covorting w.... when she interview that dumb c... @TurnbullMalcolm,” another read.

Sales’ post calling out trolls had attracted 1,600 likes and 454 retweets within an hour.

It comes after the Walkley Award winner had a tub of yoghurt thrown at her last year by a man who said he felt she was “a bit over the top.”

As Sales discussed her book Any Ordinary Day at the State Library of Western Australia, and began detailing the traumatic birth of her second child, a man stood up and launched a blueberry yoghurt at her.

While it narrowly missed the presenter, the audience was horrified by the attack.

The man later told 7NEWS he thought the presenter was getting “a bit over the top about giving birth,” but didn’t meant to launch the dairy projectile.

“She was complaining a little bit about ... giving birth and I thought that we wouldn’t be here if everyone didn’t have to give birth,” he said.

“I shouldn’t have gone in there. I didn’t really mean to throw it at her. It was just an off the cuff thing.”

Rather than being rattled, the veteran journalist insisted she would continue with her talk, and joked that it was just “a waste of some perfectly good yoghurt.”