Melissa Lucashenko is one of this country’s most acclaimed contemporary novelists. She is also a highly respected and loved ...

Just three Aboriginal writers appeared in Radio National’s poll. There was little sense of the breadth and creativity of our ...

Taylor Coyne does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

First Nations kids aged 7-12 from Cunnamulla, a remote town in South West Queensland, around 800 kilometres west of Brisbane, have become first time ...

In the south-east of the continent at Budj Bim (Mount Eccles), modern science can tell us a volcanic eruption happened ...

Every inch of Australia is written in song. Songs track lines along the continent, with every jutting rock or bowing tree ...

THE DEAD SEAGULL (142 pp.)—George Barker—Farrar, Sfraus & Young ($2.50). “What depth of shame do we lie in,” muses the hero of The Dead Seagull, “when we sink back on the plush cushions of our disgust ...

Bruce Pascoe’s book “Dark Emu” sparked a reconsideration of Australian history. Now he hopes to use his writing to revive Aboriginal community. By Damien Cave WALLAGARAUGH, Australia — Bruce Pascoe ...