Robert Dessaix
Robert Dessaix is a well-known broadcaster, critic, author and translator. He studied at Moscow University in the late 1960s and early 1970s and for almost 20 years taught Russian language and literature at ANU and UNSW. His recent works include the …
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A Fortunate Life
Born in 1894, and first sent to work at the age of eight, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a …
Year:
Secondary, Year 8
Author:
A.B. Facey
Publisher:
Fremantle Press
Published year:
1981
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A.B. Facey
A.B. Facey was born in 1894 and grew up on the Kalgoorlie goldfields and in the wheatbelt of Western Australia. His father died before he was two and he was deserted by his mother soon afterwards. He was looked after by his grandmother until he was …
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Stravinsky’s Lunch
Stella Bowen and Grace Cossington Smith were born a year apart, in the antipodean autumns of 1893 …
Author:
Drusilla Modjeska
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan Australia
Published year:
1999
Selected Essays
A new selection of the essays Charmian Clift wrote for the Sydney Morning Herald during the 1960s. …
Author:
Charmian Clift
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers Australia
Published year:
2001
Charmian Clift
Charmian Clift was born in Kiama, New South Wales, on 31 August 1923. She became a journalist on the Melbourne Argus newspaper after the war, and in 1947 married novelist and journalist George Johnston.
Early in their marriage they collaborated …
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Robert Menzies’ Forgotten People
The new edition of Judith Brett's award-winning book, providing compelling insight into …
Author:
Judith Brett
Publisher:
MUP
Published year:
1992
Judith Brett
Judith Brett is Professor of Politics at La Trobe University. She is the author of Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard (Cambridge, 2003), Relaxed and Comfortable: The Liberal Party's Australia (Black Inc…
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The Lucky Country
'Australia is a lucky country, run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck.'
The phrase '…
Author:
Donald Horne
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Australia
Published year:
1964
Donald Horne
Donald Horne has written more than twenty books, including works of social and cultural critique, history, novels, memoirs and satire, and has contributed to or edited a further twenty. His books include The Lucky Country, Looking for Leadership, The…
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