In 1946 she went to Japan for three months and, attached to the Australian forces, reported on the Allied occupation of Japan at the end of Second World War. She was the "first woman correspondent to visit the British Commonwealth Occupation Force". In 1950 she filed reports from Singapore and Malaya during the Emergency period and South Korea during the Korean War. In 1965 she reported from Vietnam together with the "Weekly" photographer Ron Berg. She was "the first female Australian journalist to visit the troops in Vietnam".