Chair: Jo Case

A six-year-old child disappears in a dust storm in the Flinders Ranges. It’s a familiar literary trope about lost white children and reflects the anxiety in 19th century colonial Australia about the dangers of the wilderness. The same anxiety, unsurprisingly, did not accompany the Stolen Generations, forever lost to their families and cultures. In her latest novel of competing parallel narratives, The Sun Walks Down, Fiona McFarlane explores who belongs to the land and who are the interlopers.

Event details: Thu 09 Mar, 5:00pm on the West Stage