[2] Whilst working in London, Bayonas heard of a job coming up with Citizen Kane creator Orson Welles.

Bayonas admitted that working with Welles taught her about flexibility in storytelling and turned her against many writing courses that she felt were structured.

[citation needed] After meeting her husband in Spain, Bayonas wanted to return to Australia, and Crawford Productions allowed her to do that by appointing her as script editor and writer on shows Homicide,[3] Division 4,[3] The Box and The Sullivans.

[4] In the 1980s she started work on A Country Practice, the programme that later allowed her sister Susan Bower to break into television writing.

In 2000, Bayonas decided to return to Australia and began work on television programmes such as The Saddle Club,[5] The Secret Life of Us[6] and Lawrence of Arabia.