Fiona Wright’s Kill Your Boomers sees the dark joke in Australia’s housing crisis
- Written by Brigid Magner, Associate Professor in Literary Studies, RMIT University
In 2018, when Fiona Wright began writing Kill Your Boomers, the housing crisis was in full swing. Cruelly exacerbated by the pandemic, it is now central to mainstream political debate in Australia. The novel began with a dark joke among Wright’s friends that “there’s nothing any of us can do until our parents drop off the...





