Alice Pung

I’ve been enjoying a radio reading of Alice Pung’s novel Unpolished Gem on the Bookshow’s First Person program It is about Pung’s experiences growing up in Melbourne as the child of Chinese-Cambodian parents who were refugees from the killing fields. So I was interested to see her take on Australia’s embarrassing new citizenship test that is rolling out today. I don’t know that a Labor government would scrap the new test.