Lex Fullarton is a descendant of British colonists of Western Australia who arrived in the Gascoyne region in the early 1880s. He was a real estate agent/tax-practitioner/public accountant for over 20 years. He is, in fact, the proverbial "bush lawyer". Fullarton has previously published the books Heat, Dust, and Taxes (2015) and Watts in the Desert (2016).