 In 1988 she became a television reporter for GWN; on 4 February 1989 she married John Hutchinson.In 1991 she left Western Australia for Victoria, where she was radio newsreader for Sun FM in Shepparton from 1992 to 1993.A reporter for WIN News from 1993 to 1995, she was the host of "Truck Radio" on the Australian Radio Network Satellite Service (based in Sydney) from 1995 to 1998, when she moved to the Sunshine Coast to become breakfast announcer on 92.7 MIX FM.