She went the University of Sydney to study arts where she was a contemporary of Bruce Beresford, John Bell, Clive James, Germaine Greer, Arthur Dignam, Robert Hughes[REF] and Richard Walsh whom her father defended in the first Oz obscenity trial in 1964 [REF].
She married Christopher Tillam, a filmmaker, with whom she moved to San Francisco to live while he studied film [REF].