The Weekend Australian, 29 September 2007
"My relationship was imploding, I had no money and I'd just started the Australian Short Stories magazine. And at the same time I was trying to track down my Koori heritage. It was like living in a jet turbine ... Mine is only a remote Aboriginal heritage, going back to my mother's grandmother. But ever since I was a boy, Aborigines asked me who I was. I always said, "I'm Alf Pascoe's son." It wasn't until I was 18 that I realised that wasn't what they were asking."