Lex Fullarton is a descendent of British Colonists of Western Australia. His family arrived in the Gascoyne region in the early 1880s and he is a native of Carnarvon, WA. He was a real estate agent/tax-practitioner/public accountant for over 20 years. He is, in fact, the proverbial "bush lawyer". Currently, he is Adjunct Professor at the Curtin Law School, Curtin University, in Western Australia. Fullarton has previously published the books Heat, Dust, and Taxes (2015) and Watts in the Desert (2016).