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For 30 years, I’ve worked in media of all kinds: as a newspaper features writer, an investigative journalist, a columnist, a fiction writer, published author and as a public speaker for some of Australia's most respected media organisations, brands, and people. Last year I was named 2025 Freelance Journalist of the Year at the WA Media Entertainment and Art Alliance Awards, where I also won the Hugh Schmitt Prize for Best Feature for my long-form journalism All By Myself, published as the cover story of The Weekend Australian Magazine in February, 2025.

In television, I was the first female journalist the Seven Network sent to a warzone, where I reported the Gulf Crisis from Israel. I covered Princess Diana’s death from London in 1997, the 2002 Bali bombings, the Oscars in 1997 and the Heaven’s Gate cult mass suicide from San Diego.

Later, I hosted Today Tonight, became the WA bureau reporter for Nine’s 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 every Saturday. A book of readers' favourite columns Was It Something I Said? was a University of WA Publishing best seller.

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 and is now in its third edition.

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 seven years, I've also been a Deputy Chair of the WA Government’s Carers Advisory Council, have been 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, I travelled across the UK, Europe and the US on a Winston Churchill Fellowship, researching why loneliness has become a public health crisis. In 2025, I continued writing long-form journalism for The Weekend Australian Magazine, and look forward to another year of quality investigative journalism and social affairs reportage in 2026.