BlackWords, Australia's dataset for works by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers, also includes a rich set of information trails and exhibitions.

Explore the trails at your leisure here.

Or you can navigate directly to a specific trail through the links below.

• UQP and the David Unaipon Award: all past winners of the David Unaipon Award.

• Identity Trail: a trail exploring the multiplicity of Indigenous identity.

• Children's Trail: a sampling of information on Indigenous children's books.

• Indigenous Sporting Heroes: a lengthy list of fictional and non-fictional sports-themed work.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in War: from the Boer War to post-WWII conflicts.

The section also includes a number of trails specific to the people of particular regions, which you can explore directly via the links below:

• Adnyamathanha People and Stories

• Bundjalung People and Stories

• Noongar People and Stories

• Noongar Theatre and Film

• Noonuccal/Nunukul People and Stories

• Wiradjuri People and Stories

In 2015, BlackWords made available a series of essays written by Anita Heiss. Each is accompanied by a trail, available here:

• Aboriginal Children's Literature about Country

• Writers on Country

• Serious Issues for Young Readers

• Aboriginal Literature for Children

• Writers on Identity

• Indigenous Stories Told Collectively

• Aboriginal Writers and the Stolen Generations

The Children's Literature Digital Resource includes a rich collection of full-text early Australian children's literature. You can explore the entire research project here.

Or you can navigate directly to the exhibitions via the links below:

• Australia's Engagement with War

• The Anzac Tradition

• The Roles of Women in War

• The Conscription Debate

• Representations of Aboriginal Australians in a selection of CLDR texts

• Raising Awareness of the Environment in Early Australian (CLDR) Children’s Texts: A Focus on the Works of Louisa Anne Meredith

• Children Lost in the Bush

Here we have an expanding collection of resources relating to Australian drama and theatre.

• Explore lesson plans for teaching Australian Gothic Theatre through four of Angela Beitzen's plays.

• Full text essays on David Williamson, Hannie Rayson, Louis Nowra, Jack Davis, Patrick White, Michael Gow, and Dorothy Hewett available in AustLit's Anthology of Criticism

• Full text biographical essays about leading Australian actors in Players : Australian Actors on Stage, Television and Film by theatre historian, Professor Anne Pender.

• Discover playwrights and plays in full text from the first half of the 20th century - explore the evolving Australian Drama Archive as new plays and resources are added to this collection.

A range of new theatre resources are coming in 2017 and 2018 ... watch this space!

Copyright Agency has partnered with AustLit and a number of other organisations such as the AATE and ASAL to create Reading Australia to support the teaching of Australian literary texts.

• Explore AustLit's series of information trails for rich resources for 20 texts. Putting the context around the text. The trails include: Cloudstreet, Swallow the Air, Looking for Alibrandi, and Look Who's Morphing, to name only a few.

• Go to the Reading Australia site

Australian Film on the Internet Archive

This exhibition collects together information on early Australian films (from 1906 to 1944) available to watch via the Internet Archive. The exhibition's content includes the films themselves, AustLit records, and information gathered from Trove, and covers the following films:

• The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)
• The Sentimental Bloke (1919)
• Robbery Under Arms (1920)
• Silks and Saddles (1921)
• The Kid Stakes (1927)
• His Royal Highness (1932)
• In the Wake of the Bounty (1933)
• Uncivilised (1936)
• The Rats of Toobruk (1944)

The Silent Film Era

This exhibition is a largely pictorial exploration of the material that Australian newspapers used to advertise home-grown films: from publicity stills to pictorial advertisements to portraits of leading ladies.

The Writer in Australian Television History

The Writer in Australian Television History was a project that aimed to create detailed records for around 300 scripts from seminal Australian television and radio programs. The enhanced records are accompanied by exhibitions on (currently) Homicide and Division 4.

Australian and Adaptations (1900-2014)

A broad-reaching exhibition that aims to give an overview of the way in which Australian writers have adapted materials for the screen and from the screen. Includes sections on Australians working in the US and the UK, silent films, adaptations of Australian material in other countries, television and adaptation, and frequently adapted works.

These exhibitions seek to explore different aspects of how the Great War was experienced by various facets of Australian culture from 1914 to the present day.

You can explore the exhibitions in their entirety on the World War I in Australian Literary Culture research page, available here.

Or you can navigate directly to a specific exhibition through the links below:

• Anzac Field Theatres

• Children's Literature

• Conscription

• Dissenting Voices

• Films from 1914 to 2014

• Gertrude Hart: The War after 1918

• Indigenous Diggers

• Professional Digger and Post-war Entertainment

• Recruiting and Enlistment

• Research Insights

• Soldier and Nurse Writers

• Songs of War

• Sumner Locke: War Romances

• The Anzac Book

• The Anzac Memorial

• The Kia-Ora Coo-ee

• Women Writing Women's Roles

The Asylum Seeker Narratives research project has two main aims:

• to provide access to first-person asylum seeker stories.
• to acknowledge the importance of analysing how these stories figure in broader literary and cultural contexts.

As part of meeting these aims, the project includes a number of information trails. You can access the project in its entirety here or navigate directly to one of the trails from the links below.

• Artworks, Plays and Poetry

• Autobiography, Biography and Memoir

• Centres for Research and Advocacy

• Children's and Adolescent Fiction

• Correspondence Archives and Personal Accounts

• Fiction

• Film, TV and Radio Programs

• Graphs, Maps, Illustrations

• News Articles and Media Releases

• Non-Fiction

• Papers of Advocates

• Scholarly works, Journal Articles, In-depth Journalism

• Short Stories and Anthologies

Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing (AACLAP) is a research project that explores the intersection of Asian and Australia: it investigates and records details of Australian children’s literature either set in Asia, works that contain Asian-Australian content or characters, works that represent Asian-Australian cultures and experiences, as well as hundreds of Australian works that have been translated into at least one Asian language.

The full collection of AACLAP Research and Learning Trails is available here.

Individual exhibitions are available directly via the links below.

• Asian-Australian Life Narratives

• Asian-Australian Picture Books for Under Eights

• Fabulous Food from Asia

• Festivals of Asia

• Folktales Across Asia

• Kamishibai: Japanese Storytelling

• Lanterns, Kites, Masks and Bells

• Manga in AACLAP

• Multi-language Texts in the Asian-Australian Children’s Literature and Publishing Dataset

• Mythical Creatures of Asia

• The Picture Books of Junko Morimoto

• Representations of Multiculturalism in Asian-Australian Literature for Young Adults

• Teaching and Research Resources

Edited by Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley, A Companion to the Australian Media contains entries on many aspects of the media in Australia. It provides detailed histories of television, radio, and print companies and associated individuals and organisations. An incredible resource for students studying media history.

The Companion is available in full text through AustLit.

Australian Speculative Fiction

Explore AustLit's full-text collection of speculative fiction works, from Account of an Expedition to the Interior of New Holland (1837) to Blackmarket Brains (1949).

Diversity in Australian Speculative Fiction

This exhibition is divided into carefully curated reading lists on

• racial or ethnic diversity
• physical, neurological, and sensate diversity
• sexual or gender diversity
• religious deiversity

The core reading lists are accompanied by a rich list of further reading.

Steampunk in Australia

Coming soon! A critical history of steampunk in Australian writing.