Moloney wrote the following about "Lost Property :"... up to a third of Australia’s young people are educated in schools professing a religious base and more Australian’s than not claim belief in some kind of creator/deity. One of the things my protagonist, Josh Tambling has lost in Lost Property, is his religious faith... But Josh’s creation of himself as a human being has been built more solidly on his spirituality than he realises. He’s vaguely aware of feeling empty at his core and he doesn’t like it. His need to replace that sense of the spiritual with something that means just as much lies at the heart of this novel ... that it’s what is lost within in him that he’s searching for.