Award-winning novelists, poets, dramatists and memoirists from around the world will read from their works and speak in the University of Richmond's 2008-09 Department of English Writers' Series. The series opens Oct. 1...
Give us your recommendations for the best Australian literature, and vote for the tour's next stop All aboard ... tram and traffic in Melbourne. In thinking of Australian literature, I'm trying to avoid the obvious names...
YOUNG Aussies are turning their backs on a university education to take advantage of the huge salaries flowing from the resources boom and skills shortage. “Particularly in Queensland and Western Australia we’re seeing...
Just a few years ago, government departments relied on whole buildings full of files rather than a collection of virtual folders on a computer. In those days, it would have taken a feat of awesome incompetence to lose...
This indispensable one-day Workshop covers all data protection compliance issues involved in the administration of charities. Workshop will be lead by Peter Carey, the UK's leading data protection expert. Accredited by the Law...
Rosemary Sorensen | August 15, 2008 A FILM so violent one of the judges said it could be argued that it was "gratuitous" is up for one of the prizes at this year's Queensland Premier's Literary Awards. Judge Kerry O'Rourke said...
Ever needed a lens but have been unable to afford it? In this post Peter Carey explores how you can have them - by renting lenses. I admit it. I like to dream about owning many, many lenses. It seems I can always conjure up at...
OPINION: Stephen Matchett | August 09, 2008 THE popularity of fiction set in a past that suits a novelist's imagination must drive historians nuts. A standard summary of Boyce's book can make it sound like an average academic...
Jamie Byng, the publisher at Scotland's Canongate, was shocked by the omission of another Australian from the longlist, as he wrote on the Man Booker website. After praising the chosen novels by Salman Rushdie, Sebastian Barry,...
Clive James and Germaine Greer are both in the running for the inaugural Australian Prime Minister's Literary Awards, which will be judged by prime minister Kevin Rudd himself. The awards will be Australia's richest literary...