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Look Who’s Morphing

Look Who's Morphing is a collection of bizarre, funny, often menacing fictions in which, along with…

Year: Tertiary Author: Tom Cho Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Published year: 2009

Essay

Cloudstreet

Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Tim Winton Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 1991

Teacher Resource Essay

Swallow the Air

With an introduction from UQP’s First Nations Classics series editor Yasmin Smith, Swallow the Air…

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Tara June Winch Publisher: UQP Published year: 2006

Teacher Resource Essay

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

Ray Lawler's revised script (2012) of his (and Australia's) most famous play, in which two larrikin …

Year: Secondary, Year 11, Year 12 Author: Ray Lawler Publisher: Currency Press Published year: 1955

Teacher Resource Essay

To the Islands

This masterpiece of Australian fiction was written by Randolph Stow when he was just twenty-two. It …

Year: Tertiary Author: Randolph Stow Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 1958

Voss

Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and…

Year: Tertiary Author: Patrick White Publisher: Random House Australia Published year: 1957

The Boat

The Boat takes us from a tourist in Tehran to a teenage hit man in Colombia; from an aging New York …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Author: Nam Le Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 2009

Teacher Resource Essay

My Brilliant Career

Passionate, headstrong and imaginative, Sybylla Melvyn is one of the most endearing heroines of …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Miles Franklin Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Australia Published year: 1901

Teacher Resource Essay

Looking for Alibrandi

Multi-award-winning, a bestseller and made into an award-winning feature film, Looking for Alibrandi…

Year: Secondary, Year 9 Author: Melina Marchetta Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 1992

Teacher Resource Essay

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Race Against Time

'Race against Time vigorously and clearly apprehends the facts of mortality while eschewing the …

Year: Tertiary Author: Lee Cataldi Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 1998