 She later lived in south east New South Wales and eventually moved with her children to the Australian Capital Territory in the 1980s.In 1986 her son Brandon died in the Murrumbidgee River at Casuarina Sands in the ACT.In 1992, she undertook a Masters of Letters in human ecology at the Australian National University, looking at Canberra's development through a political and ecological lens, which she finished in 1994.