[2] In her early career Ball worked as a psychologist before becoming a human rights researcher and activist.
[4] In 2014, Ball and Nicholas Toonen founded Remedy Australia, a non-government organisation which monitors complaints to the United Nations about Australia's human rights violations and advocates for the right to an effective remedy where UN committees uphold such complaints.
[8] Ball contested the electorate of Maribyrnong in the 2016 Australian Federal election, losing to incumbent and then leader of the ALP, Bill Shorten.
[12] Ball opposes the practise of arbitrary detention in Australia and argues that it "falls to us to press our government to do the right thing.
"[13] She has criticised income tax cuts whilst "our elderly are dying in need of adequate care" and that we "must expect more of our government.