[1] After leaving Bendigo, Wright joined the Melbourne Herald, working on the paper's social and fashion columns.
It gave her the opportunity to get to know the members at the Melbourne Cup, and despite her published critiques, she became good friends with many of them, even where there were political differences.
[3] After leaving The Herald, Wright moved on to a popular morning slot with long running hosts Ormsby Wilkins and Norman Banks.
She was one of the first western journalists to meet Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, Yasser Arafat of the PLO, and leaders of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Oman.
[3] In 1994, former KGB officer Yuri Shvets claimed that the Russian intelligence had utilised two "agents of influence": a British journalist and her associate who had worked in the Carter White House.
[5] Insight on the News later wrote that Wright, then a journalist with the British left-wing publication New Statesman, was "Sputnista".
[6] Victor Cherkashin, a former deputy chief of the KGB's Washington operations, revisited these claims in his 2005 memoir, Spy Handler.
He also said that a "Washington-based British journalist" had occasionally provided information to the KGB, including the identity of Oleg Gordievsky, a Russian double agent working for MI6.