Since January 2024, she has been co-host of ABC Radio National's Global Roaming current affairs programme.

After graduating from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts degree, Doogue intended to train as a school teacher, but instead decided to apply for a cadetship at The West Australian newspaper.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation executives were so impressed with Doogue's on-air presence during an interview with the Four Corners programme, that she was offered a hosting role on Nationwide.

[3] She worked at TEN-10 Sydney from 1988 to 1989 as co-presenter on Eyewitness News with Steve Liebmann and on commercial radio with 2UE, then returned to the ABC in 1990.

[8] Doogue was first married to Tim Blue and then to ABC executive Ian Carroll who died from pancreatic cancer on 19 August 2011.