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The Slap

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

'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

'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