"…I think I was writing from a position of frustration and perhaps anger – about the rise of the far right and the pandering of consecutive governments to the Daily Mail and its equivalents who fulminate about multiculturalism and do not acknowledge the great good that immigration has done. I wanted to rebalance the arguments."
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On the inspiration for her work Homesick in "Roshi Fernando" in The Asian Writer (2012 Apr 24)
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