She caught the media bug early when she was selected to be one of the child hosts of a TV program, Kids Only, on Channel Seven in Adelaide in the early 1980s. After graduating with Law and Arts degrees from the University of Adelaide, she then trod the journalism road and moved to Melbourne. Her career has taken her to hotspots from the Canberra Press Gallery to Bali in the aftermath of the 2002 terrorist attacks. Her toughest assignment was 23-days straight, hitting the road after the Boxing Day tsunami devastated coastal Sri Lanka. In her spare time, Farah also serves as the board chair of The Social Studio, a Collingwood-based not-for-profit that trains refugee youth.