Fault Lines by Edited by Seumas Spark, Christina Toomey

Fault Lines by Edited by Seumas Spark, Christina ToomeyA timely essay collection on injustice in Australia Australians love to talk about a fair go. Yet inequality has been part of this sunburnt country since colonisation. From Australias treatment of its First Nations peoples to its refugees, from the prejudice suffered by the LGBTIQA+ community to the lack of support for returned soldiers, our country has not always treated its citizens with compassion and care. We have undervalued the land, causing

a young girl and her grandfather sneak away from home one night in a bid to climb the staircase to the moon

The narrators hear their echoes in history and change their destinies in ways great and small

missionaries and local pastoralists

The pastoralists offered young Aboriginal men and women new opportunities outside traditional life

Wren of Edgewood is no stranger to suffering

When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name

she does not want Laurent Dopalet to discover how badly she has double-crossed him

At twenty John Bradley was sent to teach Aboriginal children in a school at remote Borroloola

'With the help of a few tech firms

CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN and YELLOWFACE

Goggles and swimsuit at the ready - it's Maisy's first swimming lesson

and the joy of shampooing your own hair