AustLit

'Way back when Doctor Who's TARDIS was only just taking off, an Australian TV series was exploring the science fiction genre.' (Introduction)

'A collection of enchanting and forgotten works by one of Australia's most loved and iconic artists and authors, Pixie O'Harris, is back on public display after being rediscovered and restored.' (Introduction)

'When Les Hume was visiting homes in the wake of the 2003 Victorian bushfires, in his capacity as a rural recovery support worker, he found himself on an unusual mission.' (Introduction)

'When Perth Festival's incoming artist director Iain Grandage announced that his first edition would open with a week of exclusively Indigenous work, it was a big deal: this has never been done before in Australia.' (Introduction)

'Authors Alison Lester and Alice Pung join Virginia Trioli on Mornings to chat about the 'Storytelling Gala: 2020 Hindsight' at The Wheeler Centre.'

'Last September, Dujuan Hoosan, a 12-year-old Arrernte and Garrwa boy from Alice Springs, addressed the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva — the youngest person to do so.' (Introduction)

'When Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries first hit our TV screens, it was an instant phenomenon. Smart, sharp, earnest and progressive, the show was like a sunshower of positivity.' (Introduction)

'There's a big new show coming to ABC TV with a star-studded cast. It's called Stateless and it's backed by one of the biggest Australian names: Cate Blanchett.' (Introduction)

'About 10 to 15 years ago, Brisbane artist Vernon Ah Kee started noticing similarities between the treatment of refugee asylum seekers and Aboriginal First Nations people in Australia.' 

'Dawn of the Dead is about rapacious consumerism. Invasion of the Bodysnatchers has been read as a critique of McCarthyism. And Get Out called out the hypocrisy of white progressives.

'Leigh Whannell, Australia's most successful horror movie maker, knows this. Long ago, before co-writing Saw, the gory blockbuster thriller, he was the movie geek on ABC TV's Recovery.' (Introduction)

'H.G. Wells's The Invisible Man was often vulnerable to rain, fog, or falling snow, elements that would reveal his phantom shape and give him away to his pursuers.' (Introduction)

'In his 2010 memoir The Family Law, Benjamin Law writes about how when he was a teen, his Uncle Toby (his mum's older brother) came to visit from Canada and was so shocked by the overstuffed, messy state of their home that he staged an intervention and cleared it out in a week.' (Introduction)