After studying Anthropology she turned her Honours thesis into a radio series and moved into radio journalism. Based in the ABC's Sydney Newsroom, she covered the Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and Chamberlain Royal Commissions and the 'Independent Commission Against Corruption' in the early 1990's. Nonee turned towards science journalism, reporting on environment issues for news and Radio National from 1994 before switching to reporting health in 1997. She also writes and runs journalist training courses for the ABC and was the coordinator of the ABC's Science media fellows intake for 1999. Since then she has worked for the ABC's investigative unit.