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Melody is an award-winning Australian journalist, television presenter and documentary producer, with more than 20 years' experience in broadcast media both in Australia and overseas. Melody also co-founded a not-for-profit to raise public awareness about South Australia’s Port River Dolphins and their environment. This helped lead to the creation of Australia’s first Dolphin Sanctuary in the mid-2000’s.
Melody is well known in Southern Australia for her passionate writing and filming about the wild dolphins in South Australia’s polluted Port River. One of her many documentaries - A Dance with a Dolphin - was broadcast nationally and then across the world on CNN, with Melody presenting it from the US.
As a broadcast journalist, Melody specialized in writing and presenting environment and science feature stories for many Australian TV news networks. She was also the South Australian Correspondent for CNN’s International World Report. She is an honorary member of CNN’s International Professional Program. She has won coveted awards for her work.
in 2015 Melody left broadcast journalism and relocated to Melbourne and left the media but continued campaigning for the dolphins and became co-chair of the Jane Goodall Institute's global Cetacean Committee and is Ambassador for KI Dolphin Watch. In June 2021, concerned about the plight of her beloved dolphins, she wrote a feature story for the Australia’s national newspaper – The Australian, where she opened up about how the dolphins helped her heal from personal trauma. The success of the article led to her penning her memoir ‘A dolphin called Jock’ which was published internationally under 'The Dolphin Who Saved Me'. The late Dr Jane Goodall endorsed her book, saying "it is an inspiring book about love in its purest form". Melody has since authored two other titles, a young adult fantasy ''A Cat Called Q and the Magic Globe' - focused on bravery and the importance of connecting with the natural world, and a non-fiction book titled 'Sheltered' which focuses on how rescued animals often save those who rescue them.
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