Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

HISTORICAL FACTS: Henry lawson - The Untold Story

Leah Purcell continues exploring The Drover’s Wife – and opera might be its perfect form

Leah Purcell has told the story of The Drover’s Wife across play, novel, film and now opera. Each form has extended its political and emotional reach.

The Conversation

View from The Hill: Albanese could learn from Malinauskas’ masterclass in messaging

With social cohesion badly fraying and One Nation’s surge reinforcing the threat it is under, politicians desperately need to find the rhetoric to help glue our multiculturalism back together.

The Conversation

Australia’s ‘wild reciters’ sought to change the world verse by verse. Who are today’s provocateurs?

In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “wild reciter”, as a reviewer in the 1920s termed amateur elocutionists.

The Conversation

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

From Aussie politics to Henry Lawson: the story of how ‘Australian studies’ spread across China

There are nearly 40 Australian studies centres in China’s universities and institutes. This is a greater number than anywhere else in the world, including in Australia itself.

The Conversation

Frank Moorhouse: two biographies reckon with a literary life and legacy

Eighteen months after the Australian writer’s death, his early work, activism and personal life are revealed in two complementary titles

The Guardian - AU

Hidden women of history: disabled Australian author Dorothy Cottrell was 'the Liane Moriarty of the Jazz Age' but is almost unheard of here

In the late 1920s, poet Mary Gilmore – the woman on the A$10 note – declared she’d encountered only two instances of “genius” during her four decades in Australian literature. The first was a man who remains a household name: Henry Lawson, bush poet, author of iconic stories like The…

The Conversation

Her Sunburnt Country by Deborah FitzGerald review – illuminating biography of Dorothea Mackellar

The first authorised biography reveals the Australian poet’s fascinating contradictions, but has less to say on the wilful white amnesia of her work

The Guardian - AU

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Henry Lawson and Judith Wright were deaf – but they’re rarely acknowledged as disabled writers. Why does that matter?

Most of us know Henry Lawson and Judith Wright are icons of Australian literature. But it’s less well known that they were both disabled.

The Conversation

Ever heard of the Bowning pheazel?

The origins of this mysterious 'creature' date back to a cold wet Monday afternoon in the mid-1980s when a larger than normal crowd had gathered in the Bowning Hotel.

The Canberra Times

As Succession ends, Sarah Snook goes down another rabbit hole

Sarah Snook takes on the role of a single mother in Run Rabbit Run, as she prepares for her real-life motherhood role.

The New Daily

From 'technicolour yawn' to 'draining the dragon': how Barry Humphries breathed new life into Australian slang

If slang is the people’s poetry, then Australia lost a poet last week.

The Conversation

Mudgee statue celebrates Louisa Lawson, advocate for women's rights and suffrage

This town of 12,000 never had a statue of a female, so locals decided to raise nearly $130,000 to honour its most well known advocate for women's rights, Louisa Lawson.

ABC News

Hollow, cloying veneration greeted the Queen’s death. Now history calls on us to get an Australian head of state

Though Elizabeth II outlasted and undid our republican impulses, it’s astonishing to see the nonstop public piety in operation

The Guardian - AU

Is living in the city or country better? The people have spoken

Regional Australians rated the quality of their lives more highly on several issues - by at least 10 per cent - compared to capitals.

Newcastle Herald

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

ABC News

Ryan Butta says Afghan cameleers were ignored by Henry Lawson, and our national story is the poorer for it

Many people are unaware of the history of the Afghan cameleers in Australia and their early contribution to society.

The Conversation

The literary life of Frank Moorhouse, a giant of Australian letters

Frank Moorhouse, who died in Sydney on Sunday, made a significant and multi-faceted contribution to Australia’s literary life.

The Canberra Times

There's movement at the station in Gunning

Two years ago, Transport for NSW embarked on the ambitious restoration program of the Gunning train station's buildings, many of which had been locked-up for decades.

ABC News

The Drover's Wife the Legend of Molly Johnson review: Henry Lawson tale turns revisionist western in Leah Purcell’s hands

Having successfully adapted The Drover’s Wife as both a play and novel, Leah Purcell continues her fascination with the classic of Australian literature in this new film.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

ABC News

The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson is a compelling story weaving in present and historical truths

Writer, director and lead actor Leah Purcell says her re-imagining of the Henry Lawson short story remains very relevant today and will get audiences talking.

The New Daily

The Drover’s Wife: Director Leah Purcell gives Henry Lawson’s classic a First Nations twist

Indigenous actor and writer Leah Purchell has re-imagined Henry Lawson's classic, adding Indigenous issues to enrich and expand the storyline.

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

University of Canberra

Melbourne University Publishing

10 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.