Much of the recent debate about the school curriculum has focused on history teaching and events like the arrival of the First Fleet and the significance of Anzac Day. Students are taught indigenous culture is “sophisticated” and that Australian society

For that, “I’m eternally grateful,” Moriarty says. Her sister’s success became the push she needed. Moriarty’s first novel, “Three Wishes,” was published in 2003. Since then, she has produced a book every two or three years. Another sister, Nicola, writes

What does it mean to read as a writer? Novelist and academic Belinda Castles asked twenty-five writers this question, and brought together their thoughts into a generous, analytic collection of essays in which each writer talked about another writer's work

7 September 2021 @booksandpublishing After being cancelled in 2020, the Australian Short Story Festival (ASSF) will be held in Adelaide from 5–7 November 2021. The 2021 program features established authors including Maxine Beneba Clarke and Cate Kennedy alongside new and

I went to Queensland for lunch and was stranded for three months  CNN

In 1950, three years after Christian Dior unveiled his wasp-waisted New Look, the house’s debut fragrance earned itself a redesigned flacon. Rectilinear and “cut like a suit,” as the couturier put it, the Miss Dior perfume bottle featured an engraved

Pete Evans: Australian celebrity chef's books pulled over neo-Nazi symbol  BBC News

Welcome to ABC Arts' new monthly book column. Each month, we'll present a shortlist of new releases read and recommended by The Bookshelf's Kate Evans and The Book Show's Claire Nichols and Sarah L'Estrange — alongside freelance writers and book

“I don’t turn to poetry to be soothed,” the poet Omar Sakr – winner of the 2020 Prime Minister’s Literary award – confessed at Guardian Australia’s Zoom book club on Friday.Reading his poem Masks Off – an ironic work yearning

Guardian Australia's book clubPoetryGuardian Australia’s Book Club: join us to celebrate the inaugural Australian Poetry Month We’ve joined forces with Red Room Poetry to bring present a very special poetry-themed edition of our interactive Zoom book club, with guests Omar

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.”That’s Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, perhaps one of the world’s most famous books and most famous quotes. To understand one another, to