Dael Allison

Fig is Dael Allison’s narrative portrait of the regional place of Muloobinba/Newcastle and its Coquun/Hunter River catchment in fourteen linked stories. Its span encompasses dockworkers who supported Chinese seamen walking off their ship in 1937, a young drag queen caught in the melee of the Star Hotel riot in 1979, and the fall-out for a female apprentice joining BHP’s male-centric...