Meg Mundell was a research assistant on the project from 2005-2007. She is completing an MA in creative writing at the University of Melbourne. Her thesis examines the nexus of surveillance, control and alienation in Western literature and culture, drawing on the figure of the detective to explore questions of power and subjectivity. As a freelance journalist Meg contributes regularly to The Age, writing feature articles on social issues and the arts. Her particular interests include social justice, homelessness, interventionist arts practice, urban space and the social implications of technology. Her fiction and poetry have been broadcast on radio and published in the literary anthologies Meanjin, Sleepers Almanac, Personal Empires, and Strange 3. She is currently writing a work of literary non-fiction about Australian trucking culture, supported by an Australia Council for the Arts grant, and based on her experiences during a 19,000km fieldtrip around Australia by truck.