AustLit
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The Australian Content Reaching Tens of Millions of People around the World, Outside Traditional Platforms,
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'Australian creators are reaching tens of millions of people around the world by creating content that appeals to under represented audiences and using non-traditional media to distribute it.'
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Documentary about Australian Film Wake in Fright to Accompany Blu-ray Re-release,
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'A film and television historian is retracing the steps of a cult classic Australian movie ahead of it being given a high-definition makeover.'
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The Royal Hotel Examines 'Fragile Male Egos' in the Australian Outback, Seen through the Eyes of Two Young Female Backpackers,
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— Review of The Royal Hotel 2023 single work film/TV ;'Midway through the Australian gothic classic Wake in Fright, the leading man peels off from one of many manic, beer-fuelled brodowns in order to seek out the company of the woman of the house.'
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Baz Luhrmann's Faraway Downs Returns Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman and Bowen to the Screen,
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— Review of Australia 2008 single work film/TV ; -
Furiosa : A Mad Max Saga Trailer Drops. Here's What We Know about It,
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— Review of Mad Max : Furiosa 2024 single work film/TV ;'Australian director George Miller has returned to the wasteland, giving fans a first look at the much-anticipated next film in the Mad Max series.'
- Trent Dalton Draws on Own Trauma in New Novel Lola in the Mirror, Which Highlights Brisbane Homelessness, single work column
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How Hobart Achieved the Title of UNESCO City of Literature, and What It Means for Tasmanian Writers,
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'In her critically acclaimed debut novel The Octopus and I (2020), Tasmanian author Erin Hortle relished the beauty of the waters surrounding Hobart.'
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A New Book about George Orwell and His Wife Eileen O'Shaughnessy Lays Out Patriarchal Truths,
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— Review of Wifedom : Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life 2023 single work biography ; - Jessica Au Wins $80,000 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Novel, Cold Enough for Snow, single work column
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Master and Margarita, the Russian Masterpiece by Mikhail Bulgakov, Is Adapted for the Stage by Belvoir St Theatre,
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— Review of The Master and Margarita 2023 single work drama ;'Eamon Flack remembers the exact moment he first encountered The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov's darkly satirical classic set in Soviet Russia.'
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Marija Peričić's Novel Exquisite Corpse Tells the Grisly Story of Carl Tänzler Who Lived with a Corpse,
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— Review of Exquisite Corpse 2023 single work novel ;'Carl Tänzler was a German radiographer who, in the 1930s, lived for seven years with the corpse of the woman he loved.'
- Comic Book Illustrator Shane Foley Brings The Phantom to Life from Bundaberg Home, single work column
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How Women Who Want to Be Writers Can Overcome Challenges like Impostor Syndrome, Time Constraints,
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'Women still face many challenges as writers, impostor syndrome among them, says the director of a writers' festival in Australia.'
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The New Books Our Avid Readers and Critics Couldn't Put down in November,
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— Review of The Conversion 2023 single work novel ; Women and Children 2023 single work novel ; Question 7 2023 single work prose ; -
ChatGPT and Other AI Models Were Trained on Copyrighted Books. Can They Be 'untrained'?,
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'Toby Walsh, one of Australia's most recognisable experts in artificial intelligence, has been thinking about the future of AI for a long time. He's even written books about it.'