'A few years ago I camped with my beloved in Jalmurark Campground, in Mangarayi and Yungman Country in the top end of the Northern Territory, near the property about which We of the Never Never was written by white woman Jeannie Gunn, who lived there for about a year. It was there that I was woken by the monstrous screams of feral donkeys, a noise that is used by sound designers all around the world whenever they need a terrifying, unearthly sound. And it was there I discovered for the first time that Australia has a feral donkey problem.' (Introduction)
'Leslie Bird disapproves of the world. Specifically, she disapproves of gay people, trans people, Muslims, curly hair, exposed décolletages and basically everything that her husband, Wallace, and their children do. Sometimes she keeps her disapproval and bigotry to herself, but mostly she doesn’t.'(Introduction)
