Meredith Campbell has lived at the base of the MacDonnell Ranges in Alice Springs for more than half her life. Originally from Western Australia, she came to the Alice in 1980 to work in the Centralian headquarters of the Australian Labour Party. She soon shifted from politics to public broadcasting and many Territorians remember her modulated tones gracing the airwaves of the ABC during the eighties and nineties. She served a term on the local council from 1997 to 2000 and has had a couple of bids for a seat in the Territory Parliament.

These days, Meredith is back in the classroom Monday to Friday as a tutor at an Alice Springs high school. Most weekends are occupied in the happy business of love. A civil marriage celebrant, Meredith often conducts weddings at the nation’s spiritual heart, Uluru or Ayers Rock, where many couples choose to tie the knot in the shadow of the mighty monolith.