Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they’d passed.
I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.
What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that’s their choice.
ss If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I’d want to come to Australia
For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.
Climate change is crap.
The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the ‘seagull syndrome’ – we fly in, scratch around and fly out.
When I was eight or nine, there was a very scary case of a guy who murdered four children in my community. I had no conscious memory of it, but now I’m sure that we all must have felt for these kids. We must have felt it, but no one was saying anything. I wonder…
I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.
I don’t really consider any of my novels ‘crime’ novels.
