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Brumby Innes

'I consider Brumby Innes to be in a class by itself', wrote theatre director Gregan McMahon in 1927…

Year: Tertiary Author: Katharine Susannah Prichard Publisher: Currency Press Published year: 1940

'Sheila Rowbotham has written that the political expression of personal experience lies within the …

Year: Tertiary Author: Kate Jennings Publisher: Outback Press Published year: 1975

An Australian classic, first published in 1903. Described by its author as of 'temper democratic; …

Year: Tertiary Author: Joseph Furphy Publisher: Allen & Unwin, Text Publishing Published year: 1903

'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

The painful and sometimes farcical life of a defiant young poet, Sally Banner, as she attempts – …

Year: Tertiary Author: Dorothy Hewett Publisher: Currency Press Published year: 1972

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To smack or not to smack is the question that reverberates through the interconnected lives …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Christos Tsiolkas Publisher: Allen & Unwin Published year: 2008

Teacher Resource Essay

Truth can be stranger – and more fascinating – than fiction. Anna Funder tells extraordinary…

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Anna Funder Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 2003

Teacher Resource Essay

Carpentaria is an epic of the Gulf country of north-western Queensland. Its portrait of life in the …

Year: Secondary Author: Alexis Wright Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Published year: 2006

Essay

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

Teacher Resource Essay