AustLit

'Seeing yourself and your community represented in the everyday culture that surrounds you is important to feeling like you belong.'

'Aside from being a one of Australia's great working directors, Warwick Thornton is a gifted and prolific cinematographer, including on his own films. In Sweet Countryhe exercises his visual mastery to its fullest, utilising framing and composition, light, shade and colour to explicate his themes and elevate a straightforward story of outback brutality and racial prejudice to the proportions of myth.' (Introduction)

'In the literary world, the categories of young adult fiction and romance are frequently looked down upon and misunderstood. These attitudes come from both critics and people who haven't even picked up one of these types of books. They are, incidentally, two of my favourite genres to read.' (Introduction)

'Just before Christmas a young Afghan, presumably Muslim, drove a vehicle through a group of pedestrians in Flinders Street in Melbourne. Some people were seriously injured. But this wasn't the first such incident in Melbourne. Twelve months earlier another man did the same thing, killing innocent people including a ten-year-old girl from the Jewish community.' (Introduction)