[3] She went on to produce a number of award-winning documentaries for television, including Australians with Mike Willesee.
[5] From 1992 until 2007 she was the writer and interviewer for Australian Biography, an archival project and television series produced by Screen Australia that aired on SBS television, and included interviews with some of Australia's most important thinkers, entertainers, artists and musicians, including Nugget Coombs, Smoky Dawson, Thomas Keneally, Malcolm Fraser and Donald Horne.
[6] Hughes wrote a book based on the series, entitled Australian Lives, published by Angus & Robertson.
[7] In 2012 she wrote, presented and co-produced a follow-up television series, Creative Minds, which included interviews with Geoffrey Rush, Kate Grenville and Bill Henson and also aired on SBS.
[9] Hughes is married to cultural economist David Throsby and lives in Hunters Hill, Sydney.