The Bogans

Park Court is a fairly typical Melbourne neighbourhood, hosting a very diverse, multicultural community. Africans, Indians, Chinese, Lebanese, Sri Lankans, Christians, Muslims, straight and gay people, they all live there, and not always peacefully. What is lacking, however, is a White family to complete the diversity. But when one finally moves into the court, it is more that what anyone had bargained for."An often funny, always generous and very timely examination of race, class, sexuality, religion, family and more, reflecting the rich diversity and sometimes fraught complexity of Australia's multicultural realities, that goes beyond labels and misperceptions to the big heart of "Aussieness" in all its forms: that we're all neighbours, all people, and all Australian, no matter where we may have "really come" from." - Sunil Badami I was born in Sri Lanka and have been living in Australia since 1990. I have written five novels: 'Walls', 'Distant Warriors', 'In the Same Boat' and 'Asylum' and 'Tracks'. My fiction often deals with the experience of migrants. I am also a military historian, having obtained my PhD. in History from Monash University, Melbourne in 1998. I have written four monographs on South Asian military history, 'Best Black Troops in the World', 'Kandy at War', 'The Tamil Separatist War in Sri Lanka' and 'ATough Appreniceship: Sri Lanka's Military Aganst the Tamil Militants 1979 - 1987.'