Alice Pung was eight months pregnant with her first child when her car was leafleted outside Bunnings in Port Melbourne.

The award-winning author and lawyer assumed it was an advertisement.

But what she found was an image of a white girl and black boy hugging with a slash across it and the words: “No race mixing”.

None of the other cars had been leafleted. “It was so creepy, so specific,” she says. “It was clearly intended for me because I was heavily pregnant and going to have bi-cultural kids.”