All Ordinaries
When Bodicea O'Brien is four years old she picks up a stick and hits a policeman. She doesn't know why. Someone takes a photograph. The Wombat Creek community frames it and calls it revolutionary.
Born in the ferns beside a mountain creek in 1970, Bodi grows up in a world held together by dirt and labour and the particular faith that things can be done differently. Around her the adults carry histories she cannot read: Dougie, who has fought revolutions on four continents and comes home undone by a birth in the ferns; her mother, whose loyalties are to the creek and its tadpoles; her father, driving toward something unnamed in a Holden that keeps breaking down.
In the windrow at the paddock's edge, Bodi and the other kids build their own world. It has its own laws, its own enemies, its own kingdom. It makes more sense than anything the adults do.
In 1980 the All Ordinaries stock exchange index arrives on Australian radio. Dougie knows exactly what it means. Bodi doesn't. Not yet.
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