AustLit

'When the credits rolled on The Australian Dream after its premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival, it was met with a 10-minute standing ovation.'(Introduction)

'A new play based on the life of Australian tennis champion and Wiradjuri woman Evonne Goolagong Cawley will take centre court at Melbourne Theatre Company next year — literally: the Southbank theatre will be transformed with stadium-style seating banks on either side of the stage.'(Introduction)

'Music has always been in the blood for Sydney composer Rafael May.'

'As a teen in late-80s Brisbane, Andrew Stafford discovered punk and it changed his life.' 

'Before Melissa Lucashenko took out the $60,000 Miles Franklin Literary Award this year, she was considering going back to her old gig: driving for Uber.'

'Director Rachel Griffiths has compared protesters who picketed the premiere of her biopic about jockey Michelle Payne to "militant vegans" — despite lead actor Teresa Palmer being a vegan who has raised concerns about horse racing.' (Introduction)

'A book by Seuss that was of no use is now on the loose.

'More than two decades after famed children's writer and illustrator Dr. Seuss died, a manuscript for a long-lost story was unearthed.'(Introduction)

'In a Grimms' fairy tale from the early 1800s, two brothers are instructed by their father on how to kill a pig.' 

'When Roger Covell wrote his landmark book of Australian musical history, he omitted the composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-90) because she was an expat.'  (Article summary)

'The bleak world of South-East Asian people-smuggling might seem unlikely terrain for a coming-of-age adventure on the pirate fishing seas, but Australian director Rodd Rathjen has taken up the challenge — and attendant cultural risk — for his absorbing feature film debut, Buoyancy.' (Article summary)

'When it comes to Melbourne Cup movies, it's a pretty small field.' (Article summary)