Theme

Australian identity

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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Away

One of the great Australian classics, Away opens with a school performance of A Midsummer Night’s …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Author: Michael Gow Publisher: Currency Press Published year: 1986

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Big Rain Coming

A lyrical story about waiting for the rain to come to an isolated Aboriginal community. Tension in …

Year: Foundation, Primary Author: Katrina Germein Illustrator: Bronwyn Bancroft Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 1999

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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

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Death Sentence

Part diatribe, part cool reflection on the state of Australia’s public language, Don Watson’s …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Author: Don Watson Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 2004

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Dimboola

Playfully vulgar, bawdy and boisterous, Dimboola plays out the wedding reception from hell, with …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Jack Hibberd Publisher: Currency Press Published year: 1968

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Hope: Selected Poetry and Prose

This volume contains the best and most characteristic of a lifetime’s work by one of Australia’s…

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: A. D. Hope Publisher: Halstead Press Published year: 2000

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Hotel Sorrento

Hilary lives in seaside Sorrento with her father and sixteen-year-old son; Pippa is visiting from …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Hannie Rayson Publisher: Currency Press Published year: 1990

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It’s Raining in Mango

Wresting his family from the easy living of nineteenth-century Sydney, Cornelius Laffey takes them …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Author: Thea Astley Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 1987

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Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines

In producing this edition, Muecke and Shoemaker have at last righted the injustices done to David …

Year: Secondary, Year 10 Author: David Unaipon, Adam Shoemaker, Stephen Muecke Publisher: MUP Published year: 2001

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