She didn’t know it at the time, but an eight-year-old’s life was set to change irrevocably when Gough Whitlam moved into her south-western Sydney street in 1957. The man who would become the most visionary and polarising political leader in Australia relocated his...
The coming of Gough and Margaret made my life more complex and meaningful. I hope his vision of equality remains. When Gough Whitlam moved to my street in Cabramatta I was eight years old. We lived in a two-bedroom fibro house built by my truck driver father and...
How does the title The Changing Room relate to the book?What do you think the author’s purpose was in writing the book?Did the structure of the novel (chapters divided into individual perspectives of the three main characters) enhance or detract from the narrative?Did...