AustLit
Latest Issues
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From the Slopes of Mount Everest to the Streets of Hobart : The Humble Puffer Jacket Turns 100,
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'On the slopes of Mount Everest 100 years ago, George Finch, from Orange in the central west of New South Wales, revealed his latest invention to his fellow adventurers.' (Introduction)
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Stan Television Series Black Snow Focuses on Australian South Sea Islander History,
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— Review of Black Snow 2022 series - publisher film/TV ; - Only a Footstep Away, single work column
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Stars of Elvis Biopic Rock the Red Carpet at Film's Gold Coast Premiere,
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'Queensland's Gold Coast has rolled out the red carpet to Hollywood's A-listers at the Australian premiere of the new Elvis biopic.'
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Neighbours Cast Says Goodbye as Australian Soap Wraps After 37 Years of Filming,
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'Australian soap Neighbours has wrapped filming after 37 years on television at home and abroad.'
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Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Incoming Artistic Director Frances Rings Takes Over Later This Year, but First She Revives the Award-winning Terrain,
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'Frances Rings doesn't remember a time when dance wasn't a part of her life.'
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Aboriginal Theatre Maker Andrea James Continues to Tell Vital First Nations Stories in Her Tribute to Tennis Legend Evonne Goolagong,
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'Yorta Yorta/Gunaikurnai theatre maker Andrea James has been thinking a lot about her parents lately.'
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Sydney Film Festival Opens with First Nations Film We Are Still Here,
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'For the creators of the First Nations film We Are Still Here, the arrival of James Cook at Sydney’s Botany Bay 252 years ago is not the whole story.'
- Sherlock Holmes Didn't Go in for Ghosts — but the Fictional Detective's Creator Arthur Conan Doyle Had Other Ideas, single work column
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Leah Purcell,
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' From dirt poor beginnings, actor, writer and director Leah Purcell is now at the top of her game, weaving her family’s complicated history and her own troubled past into a powerful reimagining of a classic Australian tale'
(Production summary)
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Leah Purcell Weaves Her Indigenous Songlines into New Film The Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson,
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'When Leah Purcell was filming the acclaimed movie Jindabyne in 2006, she would go up into the Snowy Mountains on her days off.' (Introduction)
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Bluey Praised for Representation of Auslan Community and Fertility in Episodes Turtleboy and Onesies,
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'Australia's internationally celebrated children's show Bluey is making grown adults cry (again) for its representation of three new characters.'
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Clunes Writers' Group Celebrates First-time Authors with Unmasked: An Anthology,
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'When Robert Sidler joined the Clunes Writers' Group, it was with a degree of trepidation. Now he is a published author whose works feature in an anthology from Australia's famed book town.' (Introduction)
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Elvis Review: Baz Luhrmann Brings The King to Life in His Signature Pop Style, with Star Turns from Austin Butler and Tom Hanks,
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— Review of Elvis 2022 single work film/TV ;'On July 31, 1969, Elvis Presley took to the stage of the International Hotel in Vegas for the first time, still riding the high of his electric 1968 TV special, which had revived his flagging career.' (Introduction)
- Sydney Theatre Company and Griffin Theatre Company Reshape Australian Theatre with Works by Asian Australian Women, single work column
- Paula Stafford, the Iconic Gold Coast Designer Who Brought the Bikini to Australia, Dies Aged 102, single work obituary
- Bluey Shows That Sport Is More Than a Game, and Farewells Ray Warren in Deserved Style, single work column
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The Best Books Released in June - from Historical Fiction to Memoir and Poetry,
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— Review of Horse : A Novel 2022 single work novel ; The Coast 2022 single work novel ; Big Beautiful Female Theory 2020 single work autobiography ; Harvest Lingo 2022 selected work poetry ; - Award-winning Author Tony Birch Reveals What Ignited His Passion for Stories about Human Connection, single work column
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Baz Luhrmann and Austin Butler on Elvis and Honouring the 'original Superhero' while Exposing the Dark Heart of the American Dream,
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'Elvis: he's everywhere and nowhere, a mononym as familiar as Coke and a cipher as abstract as the clichés he came to (dis)embody. Both the King of Rock 'n' Roll and a costume party punchline, the man born Elvis Presley left the building an icon, his image now so ubiquitous — and for so long — that it's easy to forget how seismically his appearance ruptured the culture in the 50s.'(Introduction)
