[1][2][3][4] During her career she worked as a senior journalist with The Australian and in her earlier years for The Bulletin, The National Times and The Age.
After a brief spell teaching at Frensham School, she joined The Daily Telegraph as a cadet in 1970 and later worked as a staff writer for The Bulletin magazine.
[7] In 1970 she left for New York where she would work for twelve years as a foreign correspondent for The National Times and The Age newspapers[3] and also submit articles to The Australian Women's Weekly.
[9] Kim Williams, former chief executive of News Corp Australia, said: "She was the most truthful person I've ever known... She was awesomely direct, passionate...".
[1] She was for a number of years married to the Australian academic, writer and literary critic Don Anderson.