Authors: Miles Franklin
SOCIETY
The Next Chapter
Malcolm Knox
The scene is being played out across Australia, parents unable to get access to their new iPads, Kindles or Kobos because the digital...
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CULTURE
The novel is the big game. Tom Keneally, with David Malouf
Thomas Keneally
Part 1 | Part 2In this Adelaide Writers' Week session chaired and introduced by David Malouf, iconic Australian writer Tom Keneally...
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Strange Beasts: Sonya's Hartnett's 'Midnight Zoo'
Geordie Williamson
Two boys enter a small town under cover of darkness, one of them carrying a baby in swaddling. It is Europe in wartime; even so, the...
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CULTURE
The novel is the big game. Tom Keneally, with David Malouf (p2)
Thomas Keneally
Part 1 | Part 2 In this Adelaide Writers' Week session chaired and introduced by David Malouf, iconic Australian writer Tom Keneally...
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SOCIETY
Miles Franklin & Joseph Furphy
In February 1904, Stella Miles Franklin – then aged 24 – received an admiring letter from a 60-year-old former bullock-driver named Joseph...
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‘The Pages’ by Murray Bail
Chris Middendorp
The Pages, Murray Bail's latest novel and his first in a decade, is an intermittently engaging satire on the conceits of philosophy and...
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CULTURE
Deborah Robertson (Part 2). Adelaide Writers' Week
Deborah Robertson
Deborah Robertson discusses the themes and inspiration of her novel Careless (nominated for the Miles Franklin Award, the Commonwealth...
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CULTURE
Deborah Robertson, Adelaide Writers' Week
Deborah Robertson
Deborah Robertson discusses the inspiration and themes of her novel Careless (nominated for the Miles Franklin Award, the Commonwealth...
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Sorry Business: The Road to the Apology
Robert Manne
Two pieces of evidence I stumbled upon shortly after reading the report had a particularly powerful effect on me. One was a passage from...
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There’s Something About Mary: The Politics of Water in the Sunshine State
John Harms
Farmers have done well in this valley for generations, and newer residents, seeking a green change, have also helped the region prosper....
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E.M. Holdsworth
Conversation overheard between two men on Auburn Street, Goulburn:“Didya hear? Council’s lifted the water restrictions from Level 5 to...
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