She retired in 1976 when the last episode of her most famous serial, Blue Hills, went to air, and she and her husband moved from their beachside home "Braybrook", in Seaforth,[5] to the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, where she did watercolour painting.

[6] From 1939 to 1943, she worked as a freelance writer, before commencing a 33-year career with the Australian Broadcasting Commission for which she wrote radio plays, serials and documentaries.

She was then chosen to create the ABC's new radio serial in 1944, The Lawsons, as a propaganda medium to introduce modern agricultural methods to Australian farmers.

The complicated affairs of the Lawson family, their friends and their enemies have made the serial the most popular in the history of Australian radio".

Though she originally typed her own scripts, she soon progressed to a Dictaphone,[8] later a small tape recorder,[5] and this was transcribed by ABC typists for the actors to read.

There were several novels based on the serials, and a comic strip version of The Lawsons, which appeared in The ABC Weekly during the mid to late 1940s.