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'Michael Dulaney is a writer and reporter with the ABC, based in Port Pirie. He has won several awards for his reporting, including a WA Media Award for his feature writing on Aboriginal issues in the Goldfields' (Griffith Review 55)
'Every morning, around nine, a white truck branded with the letters ‘TLAP’ pulls up to the Flinders View playground on the quiet main street in Port Pirie. The truck is decorated with a bright cartoon of happy kids playing beneath a caption that says ‘Proudly greening, cleaning and washing down the community.’ Two workers in high-vis shirts jump out and retrieve cleaning equipment and a water hose and spend a few minutes spraying and cleaning the plastic slide, the swings and the little green frog see-saw.' (Introduction)
