Authorship

Introduces a newly-found manuscript of Boake’s most famous poem which differs from a later printed version.

Founded in the wake of the industrial revolution, Australia as a series of six British colonies was meshed into the global commercial popular entertainment industry, linked by continuous touring by artistes and companies via the international and intercolonial shipline, road…

In 1983, a decade after the establishment of the Aboriginal Arts Board (AAB), the Australia Council published a report that presented two competing accounts of the purpose, character and future of ‘Aboriginal literature’. The first part of the document assembled…

Memoir essay looking back on Keneally's career and shifts in the Australian literary landscape. Keneally concludes: 'if I were given the chance to make a statement before the Australian literary bench, again more a 1964 idea than a 2014 one…

I met Tom in his favourite café in Manly. Our conversation was punctuated by effusive greetings to and from passers by, with chat about the last bookshop talk and the fortunes of the local rugby league team. Afterwards, we visited…