On return to Australia she was a Program Officer in early childhood education for the NSW Department of Youth and Community Services 1976–1988.
This was done in response to her husband's enforced resignation as chair of the university's Graduate School of Management in the wake of academic protests against his simultaneous chairmanship of British American Tobacco (Australia).
[7] Her numerous other directorships and involvements have included: Financial Planning Association, John Singleton Advertising, Deputy Chancellor of Bond University,[7] Australian Hearing, the National Capital Authority,[8] Pacific Power, Carlovers Ltd, L.E.K.
Consulting, Chair of Biotechcapital Ltd, member of the Schools Funding Review Panel (Gonski Review), Bell Shakespeare, Save the Children Australia,[9] Asia Society Austral Asia Centre, Australian Ireland Fund, Salvation Army Executive Committee, and Musica Viva Australia National Advisory Council.
They have two children, Justin and Kara with grandchildren Angus, Lillie, Annie and Sophie [1] The Greiners separated in 1995, after he admitted having had an extra-marital affair.
[1] She was awarded the Centenary Medal in January 2001,[11] and appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in June 2001, "for service to social welfare, particularly in the area of family support and the development of strategies to prevent child abuse, to charity through raising awareness of the need for funding to permit expansion and delivery of services, and to local government in Sydney".