![]() A strand of her early fascination with words, she thinks, was her father’s parents’ lack of English. She remembers going for long walks with her father, helping him learn his lines. Both had left school before finishing but went back and on to university after she and her two siblings were born. Her parents met backstage in the Sydney theatre scene. Last year, her father gave her a box of her writing that he’d kept in storage. ![]() She started writing as soon as she could read, she says. Words have always loomed large, despite her swerve into music. One of her primary school classmates was deaf and the disability – and particularly the refusal to accept it as a disability by the deaf community – has always intrigued her. Her husband was raised in a Koori family and they have two grown daughters. ![]() She says being half-Slav gave her an outsider status that honed her power of observation. ![]()
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