[a] She moved to Western Australia, where she was appointed principal of Perth's second free kindergarten, in Marquis Street and, following Lillian de Lissa's lead,[4] introduced Montessori teaching methods and equipment.
Finlayson was also a member,[10] developing a close personal friendship with Mayo, and taking over Dr Violet Plummer's private practice in 1929, when the latter retired.
)[15] She left the hospital in 1925 and established her own private practice, with financial help from her parents,[5] and purchased a home on Robe Terrace, Medindie.
[18][19] In 1934 Hackett, arts dilettante par excellence, discovered an unused basement in Gawler Place in which she founded the Torch Theatre, for her benefit (as producer or director) and for her multitude of admirers, including Mocatta.
In March 1936 Mocatta left for London, with Hackett as companion,[22] Mrs H. M. Downey house-sitting her Robe Terrace residence.
[23] While in London, she was admitted to membership of the Royal College of Physicians[24] (she has been reported as attached to the Hammersmith Hospital),[5] and the pair returned to Adelaide in March 1937.
[27] Besides her private practice as gynaecologist, during the early 1940s Mocatta also worked at the Royal Adelaide Hospital as assistant honorary anaesthetist.
[30] The couple left Adelaide for Hamilton, Victoria in early 1941,[31] but returned in 1943 to take the position of medical director of the Mothers' and Babies' Health Association.