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‘Speculative fiction is a powerful political tool’: from War of the Worlds to Terra Nullius

Written By Unknown on Tuesday, August 22, 2017 | 1:36 AM

When Claire G Coleman decided to write a story about dystopian Australia, she realised that the most unsettling narratives came straight out of the past

Claire G Coleman knew she needed to write a novel when she visited a memorial to a massacre on her family’s traditional lands.

Coleman, who identifies with the south coast Noongar people, had been travelling around Australia in a caravan for two-and-a-half years. “When I returned to country, I went to a museum in a small town where my grandfather was born,” she tells Guardian Australia. “There was an entire section of the museum dedicated to my family.”

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