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The White Earth

Essay by Rebecca Starford Fire is an element deeply embedded in the Australian consciousness. In …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Book Author: Andrew McGahan Publisher: Allen & Unwin Published year: 2005

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Tirra Lirra by the River

Essay by Kerryn Goldsworthy In 1978, Australia’s two most coveted national literary prizes of …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Book Author: Jessica Anderson Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia Published year: 1978

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Tracks

Essay by Tony Birch The filmmaker, Werner Herzog, believes there is only one way to truly engage …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Book Author: Robyn Davidson Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Published year: 1980

True History of the Kelly Gang

Essay by John Kinsella A key to understanding Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang is …

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

Truth

Essay by Shane Maloney On the Westgate Bridge, behind them a flat in Altona, a dead woman, a …

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

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Vampyre

By Dmetri Kakmi Published in 2011, Margaret Wild’s picture book Vampyre is a hallucinatory …

Year: Secondary, Year 7 Book Author: Margaret Wild Illustrator: Andrew Yeo Publisher: Walker Books Australia Published year: 2011

While the Billy Boils

Essay by Peter Craven Henry Lawson is the great goanna lurking in the dark and sometimes drab …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Book Author: Henry Lawson Publisher: SUP Published year: 1896

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 & Wattmann Published year: 2010

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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Zac and Mia

Essay by Agnes Nieuwenhuizen In the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s there was a flurry of what were …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Book Author: A.J. Betts Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 2013