Kieran Finnane is a writer based in Central Australia, and a founding journalist at the Alice Springs News, an independent weekly published since 1994. In this interview, she speaks about journalism, the particular circumstances of writing from a Central Australian perspective, and her piece ‘Warlpiri versus the Queen,’ an account of AFL footballer Liam Jurrah’s trial for a violent attack in the Warlpiri town camp Little Sisters in 2012.

You grew up in and around Sydney and then, later, lived in Europe. What brought you to live in Alice Springs in the first place?