After The Dismissal, Gough Whitlam called John Kerr’s wife, gifted linguist Anne Kerr, ‘the Lady Macbeth of Yarralumla’. Who was she – and what was her influence?
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Australian author Elizabeth Harrower wrote four novels in rapid succession. Then she stopped. Perhaps the miracle is that she wrote anything, given her childhood.
David Brooks, winner of the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry, recalls his friendship with AD Hope and recounts falling in love with Patrick White.
The aura of a major literary prize will inevitably fade. What we are left with is the work itself.
Poems sing to us that life really matters, now.
Sydney Chamber Opera’s production of David Malouf’s 1982 novel Fly Away Peter opens this weekend. It’s not the first opera adaptation of Australian literature – and there are reasons to hope it’s not the last.
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Associate Professor of Vocal Studies and Opera, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Professor in the Australian Centre, The University of Melbourne
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Sessional teacher and PhD Candidate, Literary Studies, Monash University
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Professor, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, RMIT University
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Lecturer, RMIT University