#australian classics

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The Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie by May Gibbs

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Book Review: Johnno, David Malouf

Book Review: Johnno, David Malouf

“We don’t have the characters now that we had in the past.” That was said by a work colleague back in the 90s who was talking about how younger generations didn’t have adventures any more, like people had in the past. So, they were watered down versions of themselves. They hadn’t built themselves to be the characters they were meant to be. This conversation kept coming to mind as I read Johnno,…

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Currently Reading: An Australian Girl by Catherine Martin 

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Giving up the secrets of the bush: Rosa Praed's Outlaw and Lawmaker

Giving up the secrets of the bush: Rosa Praed’s Outlaw and Lawmaker

Next in our classic author series, doctoral candidate Narelle Ontivero discusses the work and life of Rosa Praed.

Born on 27 March in 1851, Rosa Praed lived her formative years in the country town of Bromelton, Queensland. In her autobiographical work, My Australian Girlhood (1902), she wastes no time in asserting the native landscape of Australia as the first and primary source for all her…

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(Seriously, please watch this, it’s a scene from an actual movie oh my god)

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She went out from the school with the uncomfortable sense of being a square peg, which fitted into none of the round holes of the world; the wisdom she had got, the experience she was richer by, had, in the process of equipping her for life, merely seemed to disclose her unfitness.

page 230, The Getting Of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson

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Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs - Over The Rainbow 

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Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs - Most People I know