[4] Chandler started with The Age newspaper in 1989;[5] where she worked for much of her career, culminating in the role of Fairfax senior writer and roving national and international correspondent.
[6] As senior writer with The Age Chandler wrote in-depth reports and analysis of topics; with particular interests in humanitarian, women's issues, aid and development, Indigenous affairs and climate change.
She studied in the USA at the University of Missouri School of Journalism as a Rotary Scholar (1988/89) and travelled in 2006 to the UK on a Harry Brittain Fellowship for future senior editors with the Commonwealth Press Union and the British Foreign Office.
[9] She has filed news and features from assignments across Africa, Antarctica, Afghanistan, rural and remote Australia and Papua New Guinea earning numerous distinctions as an essayist, profile writer and narrative journalist, and is recognized across a range of specialty areas.
[11] Chandler edited Best Australian Science Writing 2016 (NewSouth) and is author of Feeling the Heat (Melbourne University Press).