Debbie Coombes
Debbie is the daughter of Florence Puruntatameri-Coombes and Graeme Coombes. Her mother is a Tiwi woman from Pirlangimpi Community on Melville Island. Her father originated from Queenstown, New Zealand but married Florence as a young man and called …
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Death Sentence
Don Watson's Death Sentence is scathing, funny and brilliant. In public life the Australian …
Year:
Secondary, Year 10
Author:
Don Watson
Publisher:
Random House Australia
Published year:
2004
Teacher Resource
Essay
Deadly Unna?
'Deadly, unna?' He was always saying that. All the Nungas did, but Dumby more than any of them. …
Author:
Phillip Gwynne
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Australia, Picture Puffin
Published year:
1998
The Dead I Know
A potent, intense psychodrama that will keep you gripped to the very last page.
Aaron Rowe walks …
Year:
Secondary
Author:
Scot Gardner
Publisher:
Allen & Unwin
Published year:
2011
David Williamson
David Williamson’s first full-length play, The Coming of Stork, premiered at Melbourne's La Mama Theatre in 1970. He went on to pen over thirty plays and become Australia’s most successful playwright. His plays have been produced throughout …
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David Unaipon
David 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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David Spillman
David Spillman spent many years working on Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. For some time he has explored the similarities and differences of Aboriginal cultures to his own western socialisation. He is excited by the contribution of …
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David Miller
David Miller served in the British Army from 1956 to 1991 but took early retirement to become a journalist and to write books. He has had over 40 books published on subjects ranging from the Samurai through the Battle of Waterloo to the Cold War, and…
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David Metzenthen
David Metzenthen lives in and loves Melbourne. He was an advertising copywriter and a builder's labourer before turning to fiction. He tries to surf, fly-fish, and is a keen environmentalist. The natural world is where he likes to spend his time, and…
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David Marr
David Marr is the multi-award-winning author of Patrick White: a Life and The High Price of Heaven, and co-author with Marian Wilkinson of Dark Victory. In a career spanning over thirty years, he has written for The Bulletin and the Sydney Morning …
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