AustLit

'A cultural and artistic success story has emerged out of the clumps of golden spinifex and stony red landscape that is the Great Sandy Desert.' 

'We tell ourselves stories in order to live – or, if you're Australian director George Miller, to smash up post-apocalyptic monster trucks, put a witchy Cher and Michelle Pfeiffer into a duel with the devil, or have computer-generated penguins shimmy and shake to a jukebox of pop bangers.' 

'Urbenville Public School might only have 21 students but it has just won two coveted awards at Australia's longest-running and biggest schools poetry competition.' (Introduction)

'From treading the boards on Tasmanian stages as a teenager — via starring in hit television series in New York — actor Toby Leonard Moore is back in the state he used to call home.' 

'Actor, musician and revered Victorian Aboriginal elder Uncle Jack Charles is being mourned as a cheeky, tenacious "father of black theatre", after his death aged 79.' 

'The first play Anne-Louise Sarks will helm as artistic director and co-CEO of Melbourne Theatre Company is Bernhardt/Hamlet: a comedy about an actress living in turn-of-the-century Paris who decides, in her 50s, to cast herself in drama's most famous role.' (Introduction)

'When Tasmanian poet Therese Corfiatis needs to get away, she only has to ask her Swedish friend, Britta Stenberg, for a screen-time tour of her snow-covered home.'  (Introduction) 

'Two-hundred people pack out a temporary grandstand, rugged up with blankets and beanies to keep warm. Despite the chilly temperatures, it's a night of celebration.'  (Introduction)

'Beloved actor and long-running Play School host John Hamblin has died at age 87.'

'With a bang, neon lights come up on a tall, flame-haired woman standing in a nightclub bathroom.' (Introduction)