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Cloudstreet

Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Tim Winton Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 1991

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It’s Raining in Mango

Wresting his family from the easy living of nineteenth-century Sydney, Cornelius Laffey takes them …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Author: Thea Astley Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 1987

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The Drover’s Wives

Henry Lawson's short story 'The Drover's Wife' is an Australian classic that has sparked …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Ryan O’Neill Publisher: Brio Books Published year: 2018

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The Bodysurfers

Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach – and the tidal changes of three …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Robert Drewe Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 1983

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Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

Ray Lawler's revised script (2012) of his (and Australia's) most famous play, in which two larrikin …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Ray Lawler Publisher: Currency Press Published year: 1955

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True History of the Kelly Gang

True History of the Kelly Gang is Peter Carey's stunning, Booker Prize-winning novel about Australia…

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Peter Carey Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 2001

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The Jerilderie Letter

Outlaw, murderer, self-proclaimed victim, Ned Kelly is an Australian icon. But who was he? Kelly…

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Author: Ned Kelly Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 1879

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My Place (Nadia Wheatley)

Everyone is part of History, and every place has a story as old as the earth. My Place depicts …

Year: Primary, Year 3 Author: Nadia Wheatley Illustrator: Donna Rawlins Publisher: Walker Books Australia Published year: 1987

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Away

One of the great Australian classics, Away opens with a school performance of A Midsummer Night’s …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Author: Michael Gow Publisher: Currency Press Published year: 1986

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The ABC Book of Australian Poetry

Follow the river of poetry through country, town, the bush, the four seasons, night and day and …

Year: Secondary, Year 7 Author: Libby Hathorn Illustrator: Cassandra Allen Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Australia Published year: 2010

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