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1 2 form y separately published work icon Artscape : Love and Fury John Hughes , Australia : Early Works , 2013 Z1934467 2013 single work film/TV 'Love & Fury concerns the life and works of two remarkable Australians, Judith Wright and H.C. 'Nugget' Coombs. Our story begins with their correspondence, released by the National Library in Canberra in 2009, making public for the first time one of the best-kept secrets in Australian literary and political public life - the 25 year clandestine relationship between Wright and Coombs.'

The story of their meeting, their love and their shared passions provides unique insights into the dreams and disappointments of a generation.

Judith Wright, among Australia's foremost literary figures, poet, essayist, activist, dedicated herself to writing and fighting for a more humane Australia. Her passion was the land and the first Australians. She was often furious about what she saw as the betrayal of both. Her creative enterprise as a poet engaged deeply with very contemporary concerns of philosophy and language. H. C. 'Nugget' Coombs (1906- 1997) and Judith Wright (1915-2000) are without doubt two of Australia's most admired figures.

Nugget Coombs, the policy intellectual, 'sage', advisor to governments at the highest level from Curtin to Whitlam and beyond, devoted the last decades of his life to the most rigorous commitment to Indigenous Australia. They each had enormous ambitions for Australian culture and society; their meeting in the early 1970s -Nugget was 66 and Judith 57 -was at a time of great optimism that must have mirrored for both of them, the early post war when shared ambitions for a new kind of Australia seemed achievable. This is a story of two people whose love, work and knowledge have much to tell us still.' (Source: ABC website)
1 form y separately published work icon After Mabo John Hughes , ( dir. John Hughes ) Australia : Early Works Mirimbiak Nations Aboriginal Corporation , 1997 14524022 1997 single work film/TV

'From the perspective of Mirimbiak Nations Aboriginal Corporation, AFTER MABO chronicles the political crisis around native title in Australia during 1997 and the Indigenous response to the current Government's ongoing threat to human rights implicit in its proposed amendments to Australia's Native Title Act.' (Production summary)
1 14 form y separately published work icon What I Have Written John Scott , ( dir. John Hughes ) Melbourne : Early Works , 1995 Z126531 1995 single work film/TV

What I Have Written explores masculinity, spectatorship, and the pornographic imagination. After Christopher Houghton suffers a stroke from which he is not expected to recover, his wife Sorel Atherton receives the manuscript of a novella written by her husband and 'leaked' to her by her husband's friend and university colleague, Jeremy Fayrfax. Sorel finds in these pages evidence of a life betrayed. While Christopher Houghton stares speechless and uncomprehending from his death bed, Fayrfax seeks a moment of truth.
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