This is the ABC: The Australian Broadcasting Commission 1932-1983
As the bells in the tower of Sydney's General Post Office chimed eight o'clock on the evening of …
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As the bells in the tower of Sydney's General Post Office chimed eight o'clock on the evening of …
Ken Inglis is Emeritus Professor of History at Australian National University. His books include The Stuart Case, This is the ABC, Whose ABC? and Sacred Places, winner of The Age Book of the Year and the NSW Premier's Prize for Australian History in…
View Books by Ken InglisAnyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and …
Helen Garner was born in 1942 in Geelong, and was educated there and at Melbourne University. She taught in Victorian secondary schools until 1972, when she was dismissed for answering her students’ questions about sex, and had to start writing …
View Books by Helen GarnerAnna Funder was born in Melbourne in 1966. She has worked as an international lawyer and documentary film-maker. In 1997 she was writer-in-residence at the Australia Centre in Potsdam. Stasiland was her first book. She lives in Sydney…
View Books by Anna FunderTruth can be stranger – and more fascinating – than fiction. Anna Funder tells extraordinary…
Teacher Resource EssayThe publication of this book in 1981 profoundly changed the way in which we understand the history …
Henry Reynolds is the author of fourteen books, including An Indelible Stain?, The Other Side of the Frontier, Black Pioneers, Fate of a Free People, This Whispering in Our Hearts and the award-winning Why Weren't We Told? Born in Hobart, Tasmania in…
View Books by Henry ReynoldsDavid Unaipon – the man on the $50 note – was a most extraordinary person. An early Aboriginal …
Teacher Resource EssayDavid Unaipon is considered to be the first Indigenous Australian author, publishing Aboriginal legends in the 1920s. Without permission, the publisher Angus and Robertson sold the copyright of the stories to William Ramsay Smith who published Myths …
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