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For 30 years, I’ve worked in media of all kinds: as a radio newsreader, a television reporter, an investigative journalist, a newspaper columnist, a fiction writer, published author and as a public speaker for some of Australia's most respected media organisations, brands, and people. 

I was the first female reporter the Seven Network sent to a warzone, when I reported the Gulf Crisis from Israel. I covered Princess Diana’s death from London, the Bali bombings, the Oscars in 1997 and the Heaven’s Gate cult mass suicide from San Diego.

Later, I hosted Today Tonight, was the WA bureau reporter for A Current Affair with Ray Martin, the WA bureau reporter for the ABC’s 7.30 Report with Kerry O'Brien, and for five years, wrote a weekend column on the vagaries of the human condition for the West Australian Newspaper. My Saturday readership grew to 350,000. A book of readers' favourite columns was a University of WA Publishing's best seller in 2014.

In 2021, Night Parrot Press published my debut novel, How to Shame the Devil, the story of an elderly man embroiled in a #MeToo scandal from his past. Its manuscript won an inaugural National Trust Inspire Fellowship in 2020, in partnership with the WA Government. In 2022, How to Shame the Devil  became a WA best seller for Night Parrot Press.

Since then, my short stories and flash fiction have been published in several British anthologies. I won the UK STAUNCH Prize for best international small fiction of 2021 and have been a finalist in the Edinburgh Short Story Prize two years in a row.

For the past five years, I've also been a Deputy Chair of the WA Government’s Carers Advisory Council, a media consultant to the WA Department of Education and an ambassador for Alzheimer’s WA. I'm is also an experienced public speaker who regularly presents to conferences, book events and charity causes.

In 2024, my Churchill Fellowship research into our epidemic of loneliness has taken up most of my time, but I'm a third of the way through a new novel, again set in Perth, and hope to have a final manuscript ready in a year or so, if the book-writing-Gods smile upon me.