When I hear an Australian politician announce a tough new immigration policy, I think dystopia (opens in new tab)

Sorting migrants into good and bad is a lot easier than affording people human rights, dignity and freedomWhen I was writing my second novel, Australiana, I deliberated over the title for a long time.I had many stories that were set in a regional community, and I had an essay and then a whole series of poems. The essay I ended up publishing separately as The Conquest of Land and Dream, and the poems are a largely unpublished sequence called Dispossession.Sign up for a weekly email featuring o...