 After three years, she was lured across to ABC television news in Melbourne in 1997, even though the sports reporting position didn't fit in with her plans of becoming a political journalist.Within a few months she was presenting the sports segment at the "ABC News Victoria" desk on weekends and then was promoted to weeknights alongside Ian Henderson.She has also been a guest presenter on ABC Radio Melbourne, as well as a columnist and feature writer for the AFL Website and the Sunday Age.