Australian television script-writer.
MacWhirter got her start in script-writing as a junior copy-writer in a Brisbane radio station, while also scripting short pieces for local television stations. Although the majority of Australian television at that time was written and filmed in Sydney and Melbourne, MacWhirter was eventually offered a job in the Queensland Film and Television Office, on the strength of a state governement initiative to encourage the production of television in Queensland.
MacWhirter wrote for a number of Jonathan M. Shiff Productions television programs, beginning with the award-winning Ocean Girl. She has subsequently become a long-serving Neighbours script-writer.
Source: Interview with Helen MacWhirter (part one: http://perfectblend.net/features/interview-macwhirter.htm and part two: http://perfectblend.net/features/interview-macwhirter2.htm). (Sighted: 17/2/2012)