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Friday essay: how Australia’s ‘invasion novels’ have reflected our cultural anxieties around race

This month is the 30th anniversary of One Nation leader Pauline Hanson’s maiden speech to Parliament in which she declared Australia was in danger of being “swamped by Asians”.

The Conversation · Sep 17

Tomorrow, When the War Began: a film made in a lab for 2010s Australian teens

It has heart-throbs and a classic soundtrack, but the true resonance of this John Marsden adaptation is its portrayal of growing up in a world rapidly destroyed before your eyes

The Guardian - AU · May 12

Evelyn Araluen wins $125,000 for ‘politically uncompromising’ poetry at Victorian premier’s literary awards

Poet’s second collection The Rot won the Victorian prize for literature and the Indigenous writing category

The Guardian - AU · Feb 25

John Marsden, Beloved Author Of The ‘Tomorrow, When The War Began’ Series, Dies Age 74

Beloved Australian author John Marsden, best known for creating the Tomorrow series and opening two schools, has died aged 74.

Pedestrian.tv · Dec 18, 2024

Possession and devotion inform Sarah Krasnostein's compelling reinterpretation of Peter Carey's art

Sarah Krasnostein’s On Peter Carey is the 12th instalment of Black Inc.’s highly readable series, Writers on Writers. The series is nicely conceived, as it pitches Australian writers not just against each other, but across a generational divide.

The Conversation · Jun 11, 2023