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Oodgeroo Noonuccal: Poems

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

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Book Author: Oodgeroo Noonuccal Publisher: Jacaranda Press Published year: 1988

Playing Beatie Bow

Essay by Monique Rooney Ruth Park's Playing Beatie Bow (1980) is a fantastical, time-travel novel …

Year: Secondary, Year 7 Book Author: Ruth Park Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 1982

Radiance

Essay by Julian Meyrick Drama is not about what gets said and done but what gets understood. The …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Book Author: Louis Nowra Publisher: Currency Press Published year: 1993

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: Nugi Garimara (Doris Pilkington) Publisher: UQP Published year: 1996

Remember Ronald Ryan

Essay by Jeff Sparrow ‘Please admit the bearer…to the execution of Ronald Joseph Ryan, on …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Book Author: Barry Dickins Publisher: Currency Press Published year: 1994

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

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Romulus, My Father

Essay by Kári Gíslason In a key moment of reflection and pause, Romulus, My Father offers the …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Book Author: Raimond Gaita Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 1999

Slessor: Selected Poems

Essay by Peter Kirkpatrick People who go in for the arts are often advised: Don't give up your day…

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Book Author: Kenneth Slessor Publisher: Angus & Robertson Published year: 1944

Sometimes Gladness

Essay by Matthew Condon Bruce Dawe's first collection of poetry – No Fixed Address – was …

Year: Secondary, Year 10, Year 11, Year 12, Year 9 Book Author: Bruce Dawe Publisher: Pearson Education Published year: 2006

Speaking in Tongues

Essay by Melissa Reeves I have worked quite a bit with Andrew Bovell. We have collaborated on two (…

Book Author: Andrew Bovell Publisher: Currency Press Published year: 2011