AustLit

Based upon the novels by Western Australian author Tim Winton, the series revolves around 12-year-old Lockie Leonard, a surf rat whose family moves to the most remote town on Earth, Angelus. Lockie's convinced that this is a total disaster. He has no friends, a new school, and a house that is truly in danger of disappearing into a swamp. But then Lockie spots the one thing that makes it all okay. This weird little town has the best surf he has ever seen.

'Follows the incredible journey of 14-year-old Sam as he sails through Asia and the Pacific in search of his brother Tom. Set in the 1850s when the world was a buzz.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 21/5/2014)

'A family action adventure series about four children who live in a small city on Australia's west coast and their exciting and unpredictable adventures.'

Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 9/4/2014)

Mini-series based on the best-selling autobiography by A.B. Facey, tracing his life from the late nineteenth century through Gallipoli and into marriage, fatherhood, and later life.

The mini-series was successful on Australian television, but Moran is unflattering in his appraisal: 'The mini-series was in effect a lovingly authentic visual and aural recreation of the novel. The trouble was that what was a pleasure to read on the printed page was pretty much insufferably boring to watch on screen. The narrative was far too anecdotal and the performances of brothers Dominic and Benedict Sweeney as Facey were dull.'

While fleeing the 1830 genocide of Tasmanian Aboriginals, Manganinnie rescues a tiny lost white child. Together they find compassion, love, and a bond that delivers them from desperation, loneliness, and the terror of pursuit.