- Deveson helped establish the national body Schizophrenia Australia which is now called Sane.
- She was also a former head of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in the 1980s.
- She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1983 for service to the media and an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1993 for service to community health.
- Her 1991 book about her son's struggle with schizophrenia Tell Me I'm Here achieved international acclaim and won the 1992 Human Rights Award for non-fiction.
- Ms Deveson died on Monday 12 December 2016, three days after her daughter and fellow writer Georgia Blain, 52, died from brain cancer.
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