[3] In 2000, Macdonald left Triple J to live in New Delhi,[4] India, with her husband (ABC foreign correspondent Jonathan Harley) and wrote her first book, Holy Cow!
[1] From August 2016 to December 2018 Mcdonald co-presented a podcast, The Full Catastrophe, with author Rebecca Huntley, in which numerous people tell their own stories, including Larissa Behrendt, Frank Moorhouse, Jane Caro, and Susan Carland.
[5] She co-presented an event called "The Full Catastrophe" at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne with Huntley in June 2018, with guests Maxine McKew, Sami Shah, Libbi Gorr, and Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen.
Throughout the series, Macdonald is seen and heard on her radio program questioning the outrageous antics of spoiled spare to the British crown, Queen Georgiana, played by Catherine Tate.
[8] On Media Watch in the week ending 30 November 2024, Paul Barry reported that the decision, made by Ben Latimer, head of audio programming, had been deplored by Ray Hadley, who called Macdonald a "quality broadcaster".