Keywords: Miles Franklin Literary Award
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MEDIA
- David Halliday
- 16 December 2021
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As part of the 30th anniversary of Eureka Street, we're running conversations with the team who first started the publication in 1991, alongside various people who have played a part in the Eureka Street story. In this video, Eureka Street editor David Halliday speaks with Morag Fraser.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 26 April 2018
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Australian writer Beverley Farmer died on 16 April. She and I had been friends, albeit usually long-distance ones, for more than 30 years. It seems to me now that we had so much in common that friendship was almost inevitable: it was just a matter of timing that first meeting.
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MEDIA
- Ellena Savage
- 16 September 2011
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Women are prevalent among book buyers, editors and writers, yet largely absent from major literary pages and prizes. The Stella Prize, Australia's proposed new women's-only literary prize, is best viewed not as 'affirmative action' but as social mobility with a feminist face.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 17 July 2009
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A few weeks ago Tim Winton's Breath was awarded this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award. This video trailer is a poetic combination of strong images, haunting music, quotes, and eloquent interview with the author.
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AUSTRALIA
- Matthew Klugman
- 06 July 2006
Are they utopian or can they be realised? Matthew Klugman reports.
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ENVIRONMENT
Mark Byrne looks at the particular characteristics that make an Australian 'hero', and asks what it is about the interior of this country that moulds the interior of our collective suconscious in such a unique way.
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