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AustLit is a bio-bibliographical database of stories by Australians and about Australia. https://www.austlit.edu.au/

#AustLit25 Australian Colonial Narrative Journalism Continue to explore the project! #AustLit25 AustLit’s 25th Anniversary special: Research Project 10 of 25: Across the middle of the screen is a series of three black-and-white portraits. From left to right: Mary Gaunt, Ada Cambridge, and Louisa Atkinson.
#AustLit25 HISTORICAL FICTION Continue to explore the trail! #AustLit25 INFORMATION TRAIL 12 OF 25: AustLit’s 25th Anniversary special: Across the middle of the page, a banner with three book covers. From left to right: Hal Porter's The Tilted Cross, Melissa Lucashenko's Edenglassie, and Hannah Kent's Burial Rites.
#AustLit25 BLACKWORDS Continue to explore the project! #AustLit25 NAIDOC Week 2026 For teachers: Across the middle of the screen, a banner including, from left to right, the cover of Aunty Fay Muir's Always Was Always Will Be, the BlackWords logo, and the cover for Melissa Lucashenko's Edenglassie.
#AustLit25 BLACKWORDS Continue to explore the project! #AustLit25 NAIDOC WEEK 2026 Across the centre of the page, three copies of the BlackWords logo.
On an orange background, text reads NAIDOC Week 2026: Fifty Years of Deadly. Continue to explore the trail. Three book covers run in a banner across the middle of the page: Grace Beside Me (Sue McPherson), Caprice: A Stockman's Daughter (Doris Pilkington Garimara), and Kullark (Jack Davis).
#AustLit25 NOTABLES Continue to explore the trail! #AustLit25 INFORMATION TRAIL 11 OF 25: AustLit’s 25th Anniversary special:
A young woman with long brown hair and glasses is turned into profile to the viewer, as she browses a bookshelf. More bookshelves recede behind her and turn a corner to the left. Text reads: All gifts to support AustLit are gratefully received. Donations of $2 or more are tax-deductible.
On a blue background, three book covers: Redheap, The Naked Lunch, and Kiss the Blood Off My Hands. Across them, a large red stamp reading BANNED. Text reads: AustLit’s 25th Anniversary special: Research Project 9 OF 25: Banned in Australia
On a red background, text reads: AustLit's 25th Anniversary special: INFORMATION TRAIL 10 OF 25: LITERARY SCANDALS. A black banner shows two pairs of red silhouetted heads gossiping with each other. Above their heads, speech bubbles show partial covers for Norma Khouri's Forbidden Love, Frank Hardy's Power without Glory, and David Unaipon's Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines.
On a blue background, text reads: AustLit's 25th Anniversary special: For teachers: Below the text, a black-frame banner shows five book covers, from left to right: a fragment of Isobelle Carmody's The Gathering, Ambelin Kwaymullina's The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf, Anthony Eaton's Nightpeople, Sean Williams' The Stone Mage and the Sea, and a fragment of Alison Goodman's Lady Helen and the Dark Days Club. Below the image, text reads: Teaching with Fantasy Continue to explore the project!
On a buttery yellow background, the word RECONCILIATION on a light-green banner. Below this, the BlackWords logo of a red stylised figure rising from blue waves against green hills. A light-green banner at the bottom of the page reads A new BlackWords information trail in honour of National Reconciliation Week
On a light blue background, an enormous pair of headphones, represented in black outline, cover four audiobooks: Zadie Ma and the Dog Who Chased the Moon, Red Dust Running, The Will of the Many, and The Silent Listener. Text reads: AustLit's 25th Anniversary special: Research Project 7 of 25. Audiobooks. Continue to explore the project!
On a red background, text reads: AustLit's 25th Anniversary special: Information trail 8 of 25. In the middle of the page, a banner of three cover images: from left to right, Oriel Gray's Exit Left: Memoirs of a Scarlet Woman, Debra Dank's We Come with this Place, Catherine Helen Spence's A Week in the Future. Women's silhouettes in green, yellow, and pale blue run across the bottom of the banner. Text below reads: Women's Writing. Continue to explore the trail!
On a turquoise background, text reads: AustLit's 25th anniversary special: Research Project 6 of 25. COVID-19 in the Australian Arts. Across the middle of the page, three book covers in a black border: from left to right, they are Dear Australia: 50 Playwrights Send Postcards to the Nation, We're all in This Together, and This Devastating Fever.
Red background, with a black banner highlighting three book covers: Anthea Hodgson's The War Nurses (nurse with her back turned against a dark sky), Riseman and Trembath's Defending Country (Aboriginal soldier with a cigarette on his lip stares past the reader's left shoulder), and Gary Crew's Tagged (a boy runs through a deserted industrial building as a hand reaches out for him). Red poppies dance along the bottom of the image. Text reads: AustLit's 25th Anniversary special: Information trail 7 of 25. Anzac Day.
Banner image shows, on a bed of stars, the covers for Emily Rodda's Deltora Quest (Japanese above, English below); May Gibb's Snugglepot and Cuddlepie (English above, Japanese below), and A. Bertram Chandler's The Road to the Rim / The Hard Way Up (Japanese above, English below). Text reads: Australian Fantasy Fiction & Japan 日本語に翻訳されたオーストラリアのファンタジー小説
On a greenish-grey background, books fly about: they have blue and yellow and orange covers. Over them is emblazoned the logo A25 and the sentence 'Celebrating 25 Years'.
On a blue background, text reads: AustLit's 25th Anniversary special: Research Project 3 of 25. Irishness in Australian Literature. Continue to explore the project. Across the middle of the page is a banner, in which the green Irish landscape is spliced with the red Australian outback, with an Irish harp imposed over the top.
A red background, with a black banner and, on top of it, a red map of the world: three speech bubbles show vibrant images of a beach, a collage street scene, and a pagoda on top of a cloud-covered skyscraper. Text reads: AustLit's 25th anniversary special: Information trail 5 of 25. Migrant Voices. Continue to explore the trail
AustLit’s 25th Anniversary special: Research Project 2 OF 25: [Image shows a black stage with five curved rows of black seats in front of it: the image is designed as an icon, not as a representative or illustrative image. On the stage are three images from set design associated with the project. This first shows a man in a grey suit, on the left, kissing the hand of a woman in a white tutu-style skirt; the second shows a grey, two-storey street scene; the third shows a vaguely Greek-looking scene, with pillars and cyprus trees.] AUSTRALIAN DRAMA ARCHIVE Continue to explore the project!
The AustLit record for Alexis Wright. In the right-hand top corner, an orange box is circled in red. The box reads Follow and includes a space for an email address.
Red background, on which text reads AustLit's 25th Anniversary special: Information trail 4 of 25. Adaptations. Continue to explore the trail! Image across the middle of the tile shows three covers: Leah Purcell's The Drover's Wife (left), the promotional poster for Chinese TV series Miss S (middle), and Nicki Greenberg's The Great Gatsby (right).
Text reads: AustLit's 25th anniversary special: Research Project 1 of 25. In the centre of the page, two rows of stylised film, showing title screens from the following films and TV series: top row, left to right, Muriel's Wedding, The Sapphires, Heartbreak High (new series); bottom row, left to right, Ali's Wedding, Puberty Blues (new series), Red Dog. Text below reads: ScreenLit. Continue to explore the project!
Multi-coloured calendar setting out the events, projects, and other social media posts for AustLit's 25th birthday.
On a red background, three stylised black and white frames show a scene from The Thorn Birds, a close-up of the cover of For No Mortal Creature, and a scene from Addition. Text reads AustLit's 25th Anniversary special: Information trail 3 of 25.
AustLit’s 25th Anniversary special: INFORMATION TRAIL 2 OF 25: Black strip of stylised film, showing, from left-to-right, Mel Gibson in Mad Max, a scene from Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, and a shot from Satellite Boy. AUSTRALIAN FILMS Continue to explore the trail!
Member benefit [followed by AustLit logo]. The ASA and AustLit, the national database of literature and storytelling, are delighted to announce a new partnership. ASA members now have free access to AustLit, which includes over a million records containing biographical and bibliographical information on Australian and First Nations storytelling, as well as rich datasets, information trails, digital exhibitions, and so much more.
On a blue background, a grey text box. Text reads: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories & Cultures All recommended texts in this environment are by First Nations authors Includes: - suggested texts for each organising idea under all three categories: Country/Place, Culture, and People - exercises for digital literacy development, including visual data exercises - recreational reading recommendations - additional AustLit content suggestions - First Nations resources on embedding Indigenous perspectives - guidance on finding information on stories in Indigenous languages On the bottom right hand corner of the text box, a logo showing an open laptop, with four books resting on its keyboard, spines outwards. The front book has a mustard cover with the BlackWords logo.
A turquoise background with a series of book titles in a band across it. Above the band sits an icon of a laptop with four books resting on it, spines facing outwards. The front back has the AustLit logo on the cover. Test reads: AustLit's 25th Anniversary Special. For teachers: AECCP. AustLit Environments for Cross-curriculum Priorities. Continue to explore the project! #AustLit25
Red background with black text. Text reads: AustLit's 25th Anniversary special: INFORMATION TRAIL 1 OF 25: JANUARY 26. Continue to explore the trail. Across the middle of the screen, three images are placed in a black frame: an older white Australian man holding a younger, weeping Chinese woman against a backdrop of shipping containers; an older Aboriginal woman, with long white hair, a green tunic, and pink pants, embraces a young Aboriginal girl as they look into the sunrise; a younger woman dressed apparently only in an over-sized white T-shirt, talks to an older man wearing an unbuttoned Hawaiian shirt.
Red background with flying folders marked by question marks. Text reads: what is an information trail?
Brightly coloured calendar showing the celebrations for AustLit's 25th birthday.
A green cartoon Christmas tree is shown on a pale blue background: it has yellow tinsel and red baubles, and is hung with a selection of new Australian fiction, including graphic novels, children's fiction, and novels.
A pile of books against a blanket, with a graphic of a beach umbrella. Text reads Newsletter Summer 2025.
Gif shows a black-and-white moving image of a filing cabinet whose bottom draw is extending impossibly far out towards the viewer.
Against a red brocade wallpaper, a young girl with black hair, wearing a dark blazer and light blouse, is staring down at the bottom left hand corner of the book, presenting the viewer with a three-quarter profile. Her face is very pale. Her eyes are red-rimmed and have dark shadows under them. Her lips are slightly parted. Two grey-skinned hands with long fingernails reach over her shoulders in the direction of her gaze: the long, thin fingers are reddish. In the bottom foreground, a single candle burns.
Red-orange cliff-faces rise up on the left and right hand side of the cover, with a red dirt road running between them. The space between the cliffs is filled with black sky and a multitude of stars. At the end of the road, facing the viewer, is a car, with its headlights on high beam.
Poster for the upcoming two-day symposium: includes QR codes for registration (all information in the image, including registration, also available in the link in the text of this post).
A brown background, with the white text Music & Language. Below, some grey parallel lines split into chaotic harmonics. The bottom line reads 'a new BlackWords information trail.
Cover image of Mitch Tambo's picture book I Am Me, showing Mitch Tambo dancing in the centre of the image, with a young Aboriginal girl dancing on either side of him.
On a brown background, the cover images for Everywhen: Australia and the Language of Deep History, Ceremony, and This All Come Back Now, as well as the logo for ABC's Little Yarns, and a small screencap from Big J and Little Cuz. The text reads '50 Years of NAIDOC. Strength and sharing culture.'
Cover of Lystra Rose's novel The Upwelling. Black background with a swirl in different colours of blue, overlaid with white and blue drawings.
Blue background with rainbow glitter at the top and bottom of the page. Twelve book covers in three rows. Top row, left to right: Bastian Fox Phelan's How to be Between, Yves Rees' All About Yves, Kyle Mewburn's Faking It, Cadance Bell's The All of It. Middle row, left to right: Danielle Laidley's Don't Look Away, Kaya Wilson's As Beautiful As Any Other, Tessa Morris-Suzuki's A Secretive Century, McKenzie Wark's Raving. Bottom row, left to right: Nevo Zisin's Finding Nevo, Sarah Krasnostein's The Trauma Cleaner, Eddie Ayres' Danger Music, and the anthology Nothing to Hide.
A eucalyptus leaf on an orange background. Text reads The Shadow King (2013) King Lear, but in a family torn apart by the warring pressures of land rights and mining royalties.