Murray Bail ( born 22 September 1941 ) is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction.

Category: Australian novels

The Australian novels are individual hymns to that country, with subtle disparagement of the mores of the USA ( Beyond the Black Stump ) and overt antipathy towards the post World War II socialist government of Shute's native Britain ( The Far Country and In the Wet ).

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation produced a dramatization of all three Gormenghast novels, adapted by Michael le Moignan and Larry Lucas and produced by David Chandler, Frank Zeppel, and Robert Cubbage.

It is the first of many novels by Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin ( 1879 – 1954 ), one of the major Australian writers of her time.

Category: Australian novels

Kelso, who has already published a number of books ( for example novels entitled Desiring Machines in the Australian Bush and Fuck Your Mother Up the Arse, but also non-fiction ), is in his thirties, several times divorced, a heavy drinker and, according to his own description, a " sex beast ".

He was also an important minor character in the later Masters of Rome novels by Australian author Colleen McCullough.

Category: Australian novels

Richardson also produced a single volume of short stories and an autobiography that greatly illuminates the settings of her novels, although her Australian Dictionary of Biography entry asserts that it is somewhat unreliable.

Category: Australian science fiction novels

In 1986, Australian academic and critic, Don Anderson, wrote of The Children's Bach: " There are four perfect short novels in the English language.

Category: Australian science fiction novels

Category: Australian science fiction novels

Category: Australian novels

Category: Australian science fiction novels

Australian novels about artists

In 1972 five novels were adapted for TV as part of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Norman Lindsay festival.

During that decade she wrote several historical novels of the Australian bush.

Mark Brandon " Chopper " Read ( born 17 November 1954 ) is a former Australian criminal who wrote a series of semi-autobiographical and fictional crime novels.

Category: Australian science fiction novels

* In Masters of Rome, a series of seven novels by the Australian writer Colleen McCullough, Porcia appears as a child in Caesar's Women, as a teenager in Caesar and as a young woman in The October Horse.

Among some 40 books and many essays and short stories he wrote six ' Australian ' novels and several scientific-philosophical works that challenge Darwinism, or the mechanism of evolutionary theory, as an entire explanation for the development of life on earth.

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

Certain indigenous religious groups such as the Australian Aborigines are more typically totemic, whereas others like the Inuit are more typically animistic in their worldview.

The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ); Royal Navy aircraft carrier and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer are sunk off the island's east coast.

Many such are localised, and do not form part of general Australian use, while others, such as kangaroo, boomerang, budgerigar, wallaby and so on have become international.

Because of its elevation and distance from the coast, the Australian Capital Territory experiences four distinct seasons, unlike many other Australian cities whose climates are moderated by the sea.

Street names typically follow a particular theme ; for example, the streets of Duffy are named after Australian dams and reservoirs, the streets of Dunlop are named after Australian inventions, inventors and artists and the streets of Page are named after biologists and naturalists.

Almost all educational institutions in the Australian Capital Territory are located within Canberra.

The two main tertiary institutions are the Australian National University ( ANU ) in Acton and the University of Canberra ( UC ) in Bruce.

There are also two religious university campuses in Canberra: Signadou is a campus of the Australian Catholic University and St Mark's Theological College is a campus of Charles Sturt University.

The Australian Defence Force Academy ( ADFA ) and the Royal Military College, Duntroon ( RMC ) are in the suburb of Campbell in Canberra's inner northeast.

Chief among other English dialects are Canadian English ( based on the English of United Empire Loyalists who left the 13 Colonies ), and Australian English, which rank third and fourth in number of native speakers.

Second, it is " merely an interpretative provision ", operating to ensure that references to " the Queen " in the Constitution are references to whoever may at the time be the incumbent of the " sovereignty of the United Kingdom " as determined with regard to Australia, following the Australia Act 1986, by Australian law.

Or, third, it incorporates the United Kingdom rules of succession into the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, which itself can now be altered only by Australia, according to the Australia Act 1986 ; in that way, the British rules of succession have been patriated to Australia and, with regard to Australia, are subject to amendment or repeal solely by Australian law.

The ranks of the Australian Army are based on the ranks of the British Army, and carry mostly the same actual insignia.

The Non-Commissioned Officer insignia are the same up until Warrant Officer ranks, where they are stylised for Australia ( for example, using the Australian, rather than the British coat of arms ).

The ranks of the Australian Army are as follows:

* Lyndon B. Johnson often met with important advisors at the retreat and hosted Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt.

In the Middle East, during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign mounted forces ( British, Indian, Ottoman, Australian, Arab and New Zealand ) retained an important strategic role both as mounted infantry and cavalry.

Its proximity to Asia makes it an important Australian gateway to countries such as Indonesia and East Timor.

The series has been described as the most controversial period in Australian cricket history, and voted the most important Australian moment by a panel of Australian cricket identities.

Singer names Hare and Australian philosopher H. D. McCloskey as his two most important mentors.

The unique features of the platypus make it an important subject in the study of evolutionary biology and a recognisable and iconic symbol of Australia ; it has appeared as a mascot at national events and is featured on the reverse of the Australian 20 cent coin.

After Australian waters with some 80, 000 dugong inhabitants, the waters off Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, and Saudi Arabia have some 7, 500 dugongs remaining, making the Persian Gulf the second most important habitat for the species.

It is usually a multi-regional blend of quality South Australian Shiraz, with the Barossa Valley playing an important role, and matured in new American Oak.

The city, while nominated to be abandoned to the Japanese in the spring by Australian factions was, by September, home to an important Allied complex of bases and thousands of troops were eventually stationed in the area or more often, staged through it, as it was the last allied bastion on the island and the last line of defense against the Japanese before Australia and conversely, a key staging and jumping off point as the Allies got their feet underneath themselves under MacArthur, and began conducting offensive warfare themselves, pushing back the Japanese advances.

The early 1990s were to see two important changes in the way that the company worked: firstly, in 1991, with the formation of the " Artistic Associates of The Australian Opera ", a body of people was created which comprised some of the most important figures in the Australian musical and performing arts world.

The tertiary sector of the economy is also important for employment with major government administration offices for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission ( ASIC ), Centrelink and health services.

Jazz was another important influence on the first wave of Australian rock.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales ( AGNSW ), alongside major collections of Australian colonial and 20th century art and some works by European masters, has the largest and most important collection of Aboriginal art anywhere in the world.

In the late 1970s, Bradman played an important role during the World Series Cricket schism as a member of a special Australian Cricket Board committee formed to handle the crisis.

During a long and decorated career, Barassi has been one of the most important figures in the history of Australian football.

Australian anthropologists willing to generalise suggest Aboriginal myths still being performed across Australia by Aboriginal peoples serve an important social function amongst their intended audiences: justifying the received ordering of their daily lives ; helping shape peoples ' ideas ; and assisting to influence others ' behaviour.

* Sir John Jamison ( 1776 – 1844 ), naval surgeon, physician and, later, an important Australian land-owning pioneer and constitutional reformer, was from Carrickfergus.

It supports a globally important population of Rufous Scrub-birds, as well as Flame Robins, Pale-yellow Robins, Paradise Riflebirds, Green Catbirds, Regent Bowerbirds and Australian Logrunners.

The park is an important site for Australian Logrunners

It also supports globally important populations of the Plains-wanderer, Australian Bustard, Straw-necked Ibis, White-necked Heron, Inland Dotterel, Bourke's Parrot, Black and Pied Honeyeaters, Gibberbird, Hall's Babbler, Chestnut-breasted Quail-thrush, Cinnamon Quail-thrush and Spinifexbird.