Her nearly fifty year career as an arts journalist and cultural commentator spans a variety of print media.

Following her graduation from the Presbyterian Girl’s College in 1963,[2] she enrolled at the Adelaide University Law School before successfully standing for the position of editor the university's student newspaper On Dit,[3] which soon led to the offer and acceptance of a Murdoch scholarship in 1964, and shortly thereafter to her debut as a professional journalist as the first female general news reporter on Rupert Murdoch's, The News of Adelaide.

[2] Upon her return to Adelaide in 1985, she commenced what would ultimately be a twenty-eight year tenureship at The Advertiser, where her wide-ranging brief included literary reviews, the burgeoning internet culture of the mid 90s, and cookery: highlights from her cooking column "On A Shoestring" were eventually compiled and published in 2009 by Wakefield Press as a book of the same title.

She has continued her work as a critic and advocate as a regular contributor to the Barefoot Review, and Adelaide independent periodical InDaily.

[4] She maintains the blogs angrypenguin,satrekblog and ernmalley, a repository of documents related to the Ern Malley poetry hoax that notoriously targeted her father Max in the 1940s.