A collection of Russian matryoshka dolls recently acquired by the Art Gallery of Ballarat delves into the burka's impact on the identity of women. ...

Today at 1130 eastern Australian time, children at schools across Australia burst into song. The program 'Count Us In' links primary and secondary schools in Australia's biggest music gig and a celebration of the value of music education for all students. ...

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Author Neil Grant and teacher David Williams brought together students from a city in war-torn Afghanistan and a bushfire ravaged Victorian town to write about their experiences. The result is a book called '1000 Pencils: from Kinglake to Kabul'. Here the students share their stories with ...

Students from Kabul in Afghanistan have travelled to the bushfire-ravaged Victorian town of Kinglake to share stories of courage and trauma....

This selection of essays, written over a twenty year period, provide an insight into the unique imagination of author Gerald Murnane, and the obsessions that lay at the heart of both the man and his writing. These include horseracing, grasslands, Jack Kerouac, and the country Hungary: a country ...

Nobel laureate for literature 2009, Herta M ller, who lives in Berlin, takes her themes from life under the black shadow of Ceau escu's Romanian dictatorship. Born in 1953 into a German speaking minority in Romania, she did not escape the Securitate's grasp until 1987. Though mostly known as a ...

59 year old Marie King has grown accustomed to life on Sydney's affluent North Shore. But now she's divorced from her husband and her kids have moved out. Her separation from her husband leaves her directionless and financially stretched, and the family house needs to be sold. Marie ends up in a bar ...

The highly acclaimed work of Palestinian poet and short story writer Taha Muhammed Ali is driven by a storyteller's vivid imagination, disarming humour and unflinching honesty. Born in 1931 in rural Galilee, Taha Muhammed Ali was forced to flee to Lebanon along with his family when their village ...

On the eve of his 80th birthday, the eminent Australian conductor, Richard Boyngne, talks with the former Artistic Director of The Australian Opera (later Opera Australia), Moffatt Oxenbould, about his career and musical passions and his experiences working with some of the greatest operatic ...