Paul Fletcher (politician), who later became a Liberal Party MP and held ministerial office in the Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison governments from 2015 to 2022, was her first speaker; she was third.
[11] Gambotto-Burke was first published under the pseudonym "Clavis Lumen"[12] in the Sydney Morning Herald at the age of sixteen: a satire of poet Les Murray's "An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow", which was later included in Michele Field's anthology Shrinklit: Australia's Classic Literature Cut Down to Size.
Gambotto-Burke was commissioned by artist David Bromley to write his series of short films, I Could Be Me,[19] which were narrated by Hugo Weaving and premiered at the Adelaide Festival in 2008.
She also began writing for The South China Morning Post, The Globe and Mail, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Vogue and other major global publications.
"[23] Of her journalism, author Matthew Condon wrote, "Her razor eye for the architecture of pretension and her ability to record untidied dialogue, especially the way it can betray the human mind and soul, have made her an object of fear and derision.
"[24] Gambotto-Burke's interviewees include Martin Amis, Elle Macpherson, Gérard Depardieu, Morrissey, Thierry Mugler, Marc Newson, Deepak Chopra, Flavio Briatore, Robert Smith, Erica Jong, Colleen McCullough, Jeffrey Archer, Princess Haya bint Al Hussein, Jerry Hall and Naomi Wolf.
"The best profiles lodge deep in the public mind, such as ... Antonella Gambotto's cheerfully dopey Warwick and Joanne Capper, which presaged by years the arrival of Kath & Kim", Professor Matthew Ricketson wrote in 2005.
In the interview with Cooke, Gambotto-Burke said, "Warwick was voluble, enthusiastic, wild, mad, emotional, straightforward, carnal, intense, passionate, ambitious, unintelligent and hysterically funny, if not always intentionally.
"[28] In Undercover Agent, Murray Waldren noted that "an interview with [Gambotto-Burke] often has the studied savagery of the corrida amid the crystal cruet ambience of high tea at the Ritz.
Such ritualistic disembowelling, highly entertaining and in stark contrast to the asinine, PR-driven pap of most modern profiles, leave the gored stirred and very shaken.
[32] Gambotto-Burke then wrote "A Man Called Horse", the first cover story about alternative rock star Nick Cave to document his since-widely reported heroin addiction.
"Shifting from bad to worse the interview collapses, along with Cave, into a series of broken thoughts and unfinished sentences," British author Adam Steiner has noted.
[34] Gambotto-Burke's editor Mick Mercer, who had published the cover story about Cave, wrote to Sounds: "I heard the tape of the interview and have yet to recover ... the piece eventually stated what other writers hadn't been brave enough to write.
Little Nick whittles his woodenly creative brain and makes sly insinuations about Antonella hauling in the bunk beds, anxious for the earth to move ... Cave dribbling in one corner.
"[35] Mercer's letter was printed with the paper's apology: "Sounds entirely accepts that Ms [Gambotto-Burke] conducts herself properly and professionally at all times and apologises to her and to [the magazine] for any suggestion to the contrary in Bill Black's interview with Nick Cave.
[40] Gambotto-Burke, in 2022, wrote at length about her experience of Cave in Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine, describing him as a "narcissist" and a "liar", and elaborating on the impact of his actions on her life and daughter.
[50][51] As of January 2023, Gambotto-Burke has been writing the back page of The Weekend Australian literary section,[52][53] and is now a senior feature and cover story writer for The Daily Mail and other major newspapers, including The Sunday Times, in London.
"The association of maternal-infant separation with developmental havoc is not new, and yet despite the evidence, little change has been made to the way mothers and babies are treated, both by hospitals and by society at large", Gambotto-Burke wrote.
[57] In a Life Matters interview with Natasha Mitchell, Dr. John Irvine[58] described Mama: Love, Motherhood and Revolution as being to motherhood what The Female Eunuch was to feminism,[59] and Professor K. S. Anand,[60] 2009 Nils Rosén von Rosenstein Award laureate and professor of paediatrics, anaesthesiology, perioperative and pain medicine at Stanford University, described it as “undeniably the most important book of the 21st century”.
[75][76] In his 2023 review of the Finnish edition of The Eclipse, poet Kimmo Leijala wrote, "Sometimes [Gambotto-Burke] goes through a strict, even self-critical monologue, which also includes a lot of universal reflection and existential questions ... [and] the versatile use of language can read like poetry".
[80] From June 2019 to February 2020, Gambotto-Burke hosted The Antonella Show, her own programme on London's independent Boogaloo Radio, which featured guests such as the acclaimed producer and composer Magnus Fiennes,[85] the award-winning sculptor Beth Carter,[86] former PiL bassist Jah Wobble[87] and other internationally recognised artists and writers.
[93] In an interview with her, Creation Records founder and Oasis manager Alan McGee revealed that in her twenties, Gambotto-Burke had refused his offer of singing with the Jesus and Mary Chain on the basis of "shyness".
[94] In October 2024, BBC Introducing, the British institution that launched the careers of Florence Welch, Ed Sheeran, IDLES, Lewis Capaldi, and Wolf Alice, featured "Promised Land", Gambotto-Burke's first collaboration with electronic artist Chris Budd.