Back in the ’90s, we were the gangs: Alice Pung
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Growing up in Melbourne’s western melting pot, Alice Pung never felt threatened by the drug culture among the migrant kids around her, but she was very much aware of it.
Though a self-confessed “anxious and slightly depressed” girl, the author-to-be could recognise even then that Asian kids using and selling heroin were from families which, like her Cambodian-Chinese refugee parents, had escaped trauma.
Alice Pung lives on campus at Melbourne University as a college artist-in-residence, but her roots are still firmly in Footscray.