Claim: Dallas John Baker writes gay-themed Australian works set in places like Byron Bay and the Darling Downs, a farming region near the Great Dividing Range.
Evidence: Some have gay content, but not all of them. Local readers will be interested in the final section of stories, set in Australia with locales ranging from Byron Bay to the Darling Downs. The Darling Downs is a farming region on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range in southern Queensland, Australia. Dallas John Baker (born Dallas John Angguish Baker on 19 February 1968) is an Australian writer and academic noted for poetry, short stories and travel writing whose work deals with themes of alienation, otherness and sexuality.