It’s just a matter of getting rid of the stale pale males in the corridors of power and that’s slowly happening too.”
I’m probably a pessimist by nature but very happy to be proven wrong. I just love writing that stuff and I loved imagining my readers reading it as well. It’s the most fun I’ve had on the page - writing the scene in Too Much Lip where the cops turn up and they just get shredded mercilessly by the wit of the Blackfellas. Lucashenko, who attended Black Lives Matter protests in Brisbane in June 2020, says the movement was “encouraging” but there was still a long way to go in addressing the spectrum of racism in Australia - from Indigenous deaths in custody to media representation. Chuck a plaque on it and look down onto the water face!” she jokes) to the sweeping Black Lives Matter movement.
The Goorie author of Bundjalung and European heritage and winner of the 2019 Miles Franklin award for her novel Too Much Lip might be out of range on a cellular level, but she’s thick in the political currents of the day, with hot takes on everything from slavery statues being toppled (“they’re not being toppled, they’re just a new installation with a whole new slant on it, I reckon.
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