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Dancing With Strangers

In January 1788 the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women, …

Author: Inga Clendinnen Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 2003

The Fortunes of Richard Mahony

'He had never got within measurable distance of what he called life, at all . . . deep down in him, …

Year: Tertiary Author: Henry Handel Richardson Publisher: Allen & Unwin, Text Publishing Published year: 1917

This House of Grief

Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and …

Author: Helen Garner Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 2014

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

Fergus Hume’s sensational novel The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is Australia’s original blockbuster …

Author: Fergus Hume Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 1886

The Watch Tower

Breaking their poses like trees snapping branches, the women urgently regarded each other, cleared …

Author: Elizabeth Harrower Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 1966

The Unknown Industrial Prisoner

On the shores of Botany Bay lies an oil refinery where workers are free to come and go – but they …

Author: David Ireland Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 1971

Bush Studies

Bush Studies is famous for its stark realism—for not romanticising bush life, instead showing all …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Barbara Baynton Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 1902

Teacher Resource Essay

Cafe Scheherazade

"In Acland Street, St Kilda, there stands a cafe called Scheherazade." Thus begins Arnold Zable’s …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Arnold Zable Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 2001

Teacher Resource Essay
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Zac and Mia

The last person Zac expects in the room next door is a girl like Mia, angry and feisty with …

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

Teacher Resource Essay