AustLit
Subcategory of AFCA Awards — AFCA Writing Awards
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2014
winner Launching The Rocket : Beyond the Typical Australian Film 2013 single work column
— Appears in: Metro Magazine , Spring no. 178 2013; (p. 6-13) -
Year: 2012
winner Who's Afraid of the Working Class? We Are 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Lifted Brow , no. 13 2011; (p. 33, 37) -
Year: 2010
winner Thomas Caldwell -
Year: 2009
inaugural winner Love and Social Marginality in Samson and Delilah 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: Senses of Cinema , no. 51 2009; Senses of Cinema , October no. 92 2019;'What exactly is it that so many different love about Samson and Delilah? For those who haven't heard, it is an unusual love story about two teenagers living in a remote Aboriginal community in Central Australia. Delilah (Marissa Gibson) is a shy but headstrong 14 year old, solely responsible for the care of her elderly grandmother, Nana (Mitjili Napanangka Gibson), while Samson (Rowan McNamara), also 14, is a "petrol sniffer" - a young Aboriginal teenager addicted to petrol as a form of intoxication. In the Australian popular imagination, petrol sniffers are objects of pity or repulsion, shadowy figures seen mainly in the news reports of the so-called "Aboriginal problem" in the Northern Territory. They are what Thornton calls "the untouchables" - young Aboriginal addicts who are socially marginalised within both their Aboriginal communities and the wider Australian society.' (Introduction)