AustLit

'Zahra Newman is chameleonic. Onstage at Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre, she oscillates between portraying a child, a father, a teacher, and a grandmother, seamlessly shifting from one to the next. It's mesmerising to watch.' (Introduction)

'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.' 

'When the creator of Mother and Son Geoffrey Atherden was approached by comedian, actor and writer Matt Okine to remake the beloved classic, the more he thought about it, the more it seemed like a good idea.' (Introduction)

'Four-time Grammy award-winning country music star Keith Urban will be among the newest inductees into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame this year.'(Introduction)

'Australian actor and producer Bryan Brown AM has used his National Press Club address to call for an Australian content quota at streaming services that run their businesses locally.' (Introduction)

'John Farnham: Finding the Voice is a story about Farnham's rise to the top of the charts.'

'Tributes are flowing for author and academic Gabrielle Carey, who has died, aged 64.'

'It has been 13 years since Underbelly: The Golden Mile premiered on free-to-air television exploring the hotbed of Kings Cross and profiling Sydney nightclub owner and businessman John Ibrahim.'  (Introduction)

'Billy Craigie, Bert Williams, Tony Coorey, Michael Anderson, Bobbi Sykes, Paul Coe.

'These names, and so many others, should be as familiar to every Australian as Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X are the world over.' (Introduction) 

'Ronnie Gorrie, a Gunai/Kurnai woman from Victoria and a former Queensland police officer, has condemned the New York Times over its obituary of Uncle Jack Charles.' (Introduction) 

'Actor Marshall Napier, who starred in classic Australian shows All Saints and McLeod's Daughters, has died at the age of 70.'

'When The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson is released in cinemas across the country this week, it will be another feather in the cap for lead actor, writer, director and co-producer of the film, Leah Purcell, on a journey lasting almost five decades.'

'A memoir of loving hard, falling apart and fighting back, set to an unrivalled playlist.

'‘Hip hop and hymns: the two would always go hand in hand for me. My life would always straddle both. The sacred and the profane, all living on the same block, all divine in the end.’

'Mawunyo Gbogbo is a church-going African Australian girl growing up in the sleepy mining town of Muswellbrook, NSW. At home, her parents fight all the time, and some of her siblings keep her at arm’s length. At primary school, Black Is Beautiful until a racist bully dares to tell her otherwise. But at high school, she falls in love with two things that will alter the course of her adult life: the seductive thrill of hip hop music and charismatic bad boy Tyce Carrington. Tyce also feels like an alien in Australia, despite his Aboriginality – or because of it.

'When Mawunyo’s offered a chance to further her budding media career in New York City at the Bible of hip hop, The Source magazine, she throws herself headlong into the city’s heady buzz and hustle – but even as it lures her in, it threatens to derail her dreams.

'Hip Hop & Hymns is a tussle between the search for belonging and falling hard for the things that can tear us apart, and a clear-eyed, heartfelt story about daring greatly and what it means to be Black in Australia.'  (Publication summary)