Early TV screenwriting credit, the Australian telefilm "Say You Want Me"

Penned the teleplay for "Cass", directed by Chris Noonan

First original screenplay, "High Tide"; also first screen collaboration with director Gillian Armstrong

Adapted Janet Frame's memoir, "An Angel at My Table" as a three-part miniseries for Australian TV; directed by Jane Campion, the work was released theatrically in an edited form in Europe and the USA

Reunited with Jane Campion for "The Portrait of a Lady"

Adapted the Elizabeth Jolly novel "The Well", helmed by Samantha Lang

Penned the screen adaptation of Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "A Thousand Acres", directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse

Wrote the adaptation of Peter Carey's novel "Oscar and Lucinda", directed by Gillian Armstrong