I'm sure other writers have no difficulties writing nice.

The only reason I've ever had to wear a hat is to avoid skin cancer.

We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody.

My Sister Rosa was bumped from the schedule. None of my books has ever been bumped before. It freaked me out.

In Australia we have a government actively undoing what little progress had been made on climate change and stripping money from all the important institutions such as the ABC, CSIRO and SBS.

I've known white Australian girls from wealthy families who were sent to posh private schools, who knew all of that stuff, and I think would recognise much in Jefferson's book. What I related to most strongly was the sexism and misogyny Margo Jefferson had to battle.

I am not Nostradamus.Nor would I want to be. I'm convinced being able to tell the future is the worst superpower. I'd rather be invisible and being invisible never ends well. Just read H. G. Wells!