Christopher Testa: Your book is about regional voters and the reasons they’ve been turning away from mainstream parties and mainstream politics. But how much of what you’ve observed is uniform across regional areas? 

Gabrielle Chan: The reason I wrote the book with a very local focus on my community is because obviously regional Australia is not uniform and it’s not monolithic. Each region has different strengths and challenges so I wanted to acknowledge the local aspect of regional Australia and the only way I could do that was really to write about my own community. 

And then hopefully regional Australia will draw some themes that might resonate with their areas but with their slightly different local twist. 

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