In 2006, Naidoo became the media manager and spokeswoman for CHOICE, an Australian independent consumer watchdog, and has appeared on shows such as A Current Affair and The 7.30 Report in that capacity.
[citation needed] She established the Shonky Awards for the worst consumer products, which became a highly anticipated annual media event.
[citation needed] In 2009, Naidoo was one of 261 candidates selected to be trained in Melbourne by former US Vice President Al Gore to conduct regular presentations about the impacts of anthropogenic climate change.
[citation needed] Her first book, The Edible Balcony, an urban farming cookbook, published by Penguin in October 2011,[5] sold over 10,000 copies within six months[6] and has been reprinted four times.
[8] In 2015, she was a visiting guest lecturer at the Laurie M Tisch School for Food Education and Policy at Columbia University in New York City.
[9] Naidoo gained national prominence in 1997 for her less serious appearances on the ABC's Club Buggery, a late-night comedy variety show hosted by Roy & HG in which she starred as policewoman Barbara in a regular comedy sketch — a police spoof titled "Sam Stain" alongside Ian Turpie and actor Harold Hopkins.
[1] That was followed by appearances on McFeast, Good News Week and The Fat, and Steve Abbott's variety series Under The Grandstand and In Siberia Tonight.
[18] In 2017, Naidoo was awarded the Peter Sculthorpe Alumni Prize by the Launceston Church Grammar School for her contribution to broadcasting and the community.