Keywords: Young Adult Fiction
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 29 October 2012
'Though land rights and self-determination provide no utopia for the contemporary indigenous Australian community, they have belatedly put right an ancient wrong. The cost and inconvenience are unavoidable. Terra nullius is no longer an option.' Full text is from Fr Frank Brennan's keynote speech at the Central Queensland Law Association Conference, Mercure Capricorn Resort, Yeppoon, 27 October 2012.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 09 June 2011
15 Comments
The Christian Brothers have made efforts to atone for cases of child abuse that occurred in their institutions. That Oranges and Sunshine condemns them universally is due less to malice than to the fact that the filmmaker's sympathies sit squarely with the victims.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 18 November 2010
1 Comment
The youths take fearful strides into adulthood, embracing responsibility through necessity, unprotected by parents, teachers or mentors. Like many fictional 'chosen ones', Harry Potter is an allegorical Christ figure.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Tony Kevin
- 09 September 2010
13 Comments
What do young Australians take away from John Marsden's novels - and now, the film Tomorrow, When the War Began? They are more than escapist fantasies. They convey value messages, calling on young Australians to cherish our country, not to take it for granted, and to be prepared if necessary to kill and die for it.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 19 March 2009
1 Comment
Be it fact or fiction, there is something humanising in the notion of young Pauline Hanson exposing her not-so-innocence to her then boyfriend's camera.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 05 June 2008
The magic of Flight of the Red Balloon is its delicate approach
to exposition. Details are revealed gradually, like a photo blooming in a
darkroom. Simon's carefree childishness shines in contrast with the complexity of the adults' lives.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gil Maclean, Siobhan Jackson, Allan James Thomas
- 18 May 2007
Reviews of the films Hero; The story of the weeping camel; In my father’s den and Steamboy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Hughes
- 24 June 2006
Juliette Hughes reviews Terry Pratchett’s The Wee Free Men and Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Kirsty Sangster
- 10 May 2006
Kirsty Sangster reviews Christine Balint’s Ophelia’s fan: A story about dreams, Shakespeare and love.
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