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With a Masters Degree in Asian studies and severe case of wanderlust, Melanie headed to Indonesia in 1992 where she started her journalism career, working as a reporter and editor at Indonesia's largest English daily, The Jakarta Post.
She went on to work as a field producer with the BBC (Panorama and Newsnight), ITN (Channel 4), Reuters TV, SBS TV and Agence Press France until President Suharto's downfall in 1998.
During that time, she was involved in the production of a number of award-winning features, including the Amnesty International Asia Award for a feature on the Indonesian timber industry (BBC) and two United Nations awards for features on women in development and corruption in Indonesia (ITN and BBC).
After a stint working on the "other side", as a corporate communications manager in New York and London, Melanie returned to Australia in 2002 when she joined SBS TV's Insight program as a researcher, before moving on to become a researcher and producer on Dateline.
In 2010, Melanie produced the Logie-nominated profile of two members of the Bali Nine, who are on death row, and secured unprecedented access to the prison.
