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Oodgeroo Noonuccal: Poems

Essay by Ellen van Neerven At the Emerging Writers Festival in June, acclaimed Goori novelist …

Book Author: Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) Publisher: Jacaranda Press Published year: 1988

Dark Roots: and short story writing

Essay by Amy Gray Short stories are often the unsung virtuosos of literature. Gone is the luxury of…

Book Author: Cate Kennedy Publisher: Scribe Published year: 2012

Who’s Afraid of Poetic Invention? Anthologising Australian Poetry in the New Century

Essay by A. J. Carruthers (Shanghai University of International Business and Economics) So this mud…

Year: Tertiary Book Author: Jill Jones Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann Published year: 2010

Revisiting and Re-imagining The One Day of the Year

Essay by Jonathan Bollen In 1960, Alan Seymour’s The One Day of the Year, may have been, as the …

Year: Secondary, Year 10, Year 9 Book Author: Alan Seymour Publisher: Angus & Robertson Published year: 1958

Reading Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence – Aboriginal Child Removal in 2017

Essay by Hannah McGlade Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996) is the story of three young Aboriginal…

Year: Secondary, Year 9 Book Author: Doris Pilkington Publisher: UQP Published year: 1996

Mirror

Essay by Robin Morrow When a full account of the rise and fall of the printed book is written, …

Year: Secondary, Year 8 Book Author: Jeannie Baker Publisher: Walker Books Published year: 2011

Wright: Collected Poems

Essay by Judith Rodriguez At the end of World War II, Judith Wright was thirty, and less than a …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Book Author: Judith Wright Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Australia Published year: 1994

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Mahtab’s Story

Essay by Yassmin Abdel-Magied ‘We must stop the boats.’ It’s a phrase every Australian has …

Year: Secondary, Year 7 Book Author: Libby Gleeson Publisher: Allen & Unwin Published year: 2008

‘The Liquid City, the Uncertain Horizon’: Peter Temple’s Truth and Truthfulness

Essay by Stephen Knight (University of Melbourne) 1. Towards Truth Australians have always been …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Book Author: Peter Temple Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 2010

The Chapel Perilous

Essay by Nicole Moore It is eight o’clock in the evening on the 21st of January, 1971, and the …

Year: Tertiary Book Author: Dorothy Hewett Publisher: Currency Press Published year: 1972