[1] She then went to the University of Adelaide to study arts, at the same time as later politicians Natasha Stott Despoja, Penny Wong, Jay Weatherill, Christopher Pyne, Mark Butler and Pat Conlon, and political journalists Annabel Crabb and David Penberthy.
Working with artistic director Stephen Page, she was credited with improving its financial standing, partly due to securing its first corporate partner.
[1] In 1999 she returned to Adelaide, after being appointed general manager of the children’s festival Come Out (now DreamBIG), and two years later made a failed attempt to get pre-selection as a Labor candidate for the upcoming election.
[1] Dyer has also been a member of the external advisory panel to the Assemblage Centre for Creative Arts at Flinders University, headed by Garry Stewart,[10] along with Greg Mackie, Wesley Enoch, Rebecca Summerton, and others.
[4] She also co-founded Rose Tinted Enterprises with magician James Galea, which produces magic and comedy shows on a variety of platforms.
[13] In 2021, while she was running Writers' Week, Dyer became involved in a legal case relating to the rape allegations against Christian Porter.
[2][1] She is the author of a book, Burning Down the House: Reconstructing Australian Politics, published by Monash University Press in February 2022,[17] which is critical of both the Coalition and Labor and examines the reasons behind the new Community Independents movement.
[14][19] Boothby is the second most marginal seat in the country, in which the Nick Xenophon Team gained 20% of the vote in 2016 against the incumbent, Nicolle Flint (Liberal).
[23] She received confirmation late on 29 April that her UK citizenship had been revoked on 19 February so she was eligible to have nominated and to sit in parliament should she be elected.
She stated that if elected she would seek amendment of Section 44 of the Constitution of Australia as she said that requiring candidates to renounce secondary citizenship is an inhibitor to attracting the widest range of people from diverse backgrounds.