About the Author

Meredith Fletcher is a historian specialising in environmental, local and community history. For twenty years she was director of the Centre for Gippsland Studies at Monash University Gippsland Campus, and is now an adjunct research fellow at the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies, Monash University. Her book, Digging People Up For Coal: a History of Yallourn was short-listed for the NSW Premiers History Awards.