Kate Jennings walks into the hotel foyer for our interview with eyes sweeping for contact, her iPad in her hand, on a mission to show her publicist and I images of frogs.
Frog sculptures, as it happens, from Balranald, a town on the Murrumbidgee River in western NSW. She passed through the town on her way to the Mildura Writers’ Festival, which she attended over last weekend. Balranald has gathered many frog sculptures around the town, there’s even a tourist map showing where they all are. They remind us of disappearing frog populations around the world, and of the efforts to save the Murrumbidgee population of endangered Barking or Southern Bell Frogs (Litoria raniformis). The sculptures are cute, and she has obvious great pleasure showing them to us.
