2008, she was appointed to the board of the Bangarra Dance Theatre and was chair from 2010 20 2014. She was appointed to the board of Museums and Galleries NSW in 2012, a role which continues . Behrendt has served on the board of the Sydney Writers' Festival since 2015, the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, chairing their Indigenous Advisory Panel (2007–2012). She was a board member of the Australian Major Performing Arts Group (AMPAG) from 2013 to 2014, was a judge of non-fiction on the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards (2013–2014) and has been a member of the Australia Council Major Performing Arts Panel since 2015. Writing Behrendt has written extensively on legal and Indigenous social justice issues. Her books include Aboriginal Dispute Resolution (1995) and Achieving Social Justice (2003). In 2005 she co-authored the book Treaty. Behrendt has also written three works of fiction, including a novel, Home, which won the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, the David Unaipon Award in 2002, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel in the south-east Asian/South Pacific region in 2005. Her second novel, Legacy, won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Prize for Indigenous Writing (2010). Her third novel, After Story, was published in 2021. In 2012, Behrendt published Indigenous Australia For Dummies. Film Behrendt has written, directed, and/or produced a number of documentary films since 2013, including Innocence Betrayed (2013, writer) In My Blood It Runs (2019, producer) and Maralinga Tjarutja (2020, writer), the latter about the British nuclear tests at Maralinga in South Australia. She was Indigenous consultant for the TV documentary miniseries Australia: The Story of Us in 2015, Who do you think you are? (2018–2019) and other projects. In 2016 Behrendt (as director) Michaela Perske (producer) and were awarded the Indigenous Feature Documentary Initiative funding by the Adelaide Film Festival in conjunction with Screen Australia and KOJO to work on their feature documentary project, After the Apology, and on 9 October 2017, AFF held the world première of the resulting film. The film looks at the increase in Indigenous child removal in the years following Kevin Rudd's Apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples. It won Best Direction of a Documentary Feature Film from the Australian Directors Guild in 2018, and was nominated in three categories in the 2018 AACTA Awards, including Best Direction in Nonfiction Television. Behrendt directed Maralinga Tjarutja, a May 2020