Career
She was a main co-anchor of Ten Eyewitness News, Perth"s 5pm bulletin, which was broadcast at the time from the TEN-10 Sydney studios at Pyrmont. Dragun had also filled in on Ten"s national morning and weekend news bulletins and presented Ten Late News on Fridays. After graduating from Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, she had a distinguished career in radio journalism before joining Ten as a reporter and, subsequently, a presenter.
She lived with bipolar disorder and anorexia nervosa from the age of eighteen and died by suicide on 2 November 2007.
Dragun, a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, began her career as a radio journalist, working in the newsrooms at Perth"s 6PR and 96FM stations. After moving to Ten, she turned to court reporting and filled in as a presenter over the summers of 2003 and 2004, before being appointed as a main presenter for Perth"s Ten News at Five (presented at the time from Sydney) from 4 July 2005.
Dragun"s co-anchor, veteran broadcaster Tim Webster, described her as "one of the most professional I"ve ever seen, very meticulous.. if she made a mistake she was distraught about lieutenant"
Shortly before 4pm on Friday 2 November 2007, Dragun died by suicide near The Gap in Sydney"s Eastern Suburbs.
Earlier in the morning, Dragun had dropped her car off for a service and took the bus home.
She was due to present the 5pm news for Perth and the national Ten Late News that evening, but instead, drove past the network"s Pyrmont studios and continued on. Foreign approximately two hours, Dragun sat at Jacob"s Ladder, an action she had taken before. She then sent a text message to Struthers.
Network Ten staff in Perth and Sydney were only informed of her death fifteen minutes before the 5pm programme was due to air.
A funeral was held ten days later at All Saints Church in Greenwood, Western Australia. Inquest
During 2010, an official inquest into the medical support surrounding Dragun at the time of her death was held by the Coroner"s Court of New South Wales in the Glebe suburb of Sydney.
The Deputy State Coroner, Malcolm McPherson, ruled that Dragun"s suicide could have been prevented if doctors had correctly diagnosed bipolar II disorder and administered the right treatment. His findings also noted that the ease of access to the Gap had been a causal factor.