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Ancestors return home

27 August 2018

Eight Australian Indigenous ancestors have been returned home from Sweden.

Video: Ballet school showcase

28 August 2018

We visited the Australian Ballet School as the students prepare to showcase their amazing artistry and technical skill in Melbourne and Canberra.

The future of music

18 September 2018

We take a look at the Australian National Academy of Music and how it nurtures some of the best musicians from around the country.

Return of ammonite fossil to Algeria

19 September 2018

The Australian Government has returned a culturally significant ammonite fossil to the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria today.

Australian Reading Hour

20 September 2018

All Australians are encouraged to stop what they are doing today, pick up a book and read—for just one hour.

Video: So much more than somersaults

25 September 2018

Challenging the mind and body – academic studies at the National Institute of Circus Arts are as rigorous as the physical workouts.

Border Districts

Gerald Murnane

Conceived as Gerald Murnane's last work of fiction, Border Districts was written after the author moved from Melbourne to a small town on the western edge of the Wimmera Plains, near the border with South Australia. The narrator of this fiction has made a similar move, from a capital city to a remote town in the border country, where he intends to spend the last years of his life. It is a time for exploring the enduring elements of his experience, as these exist in his mind, not as an integral landscape now, but as image-fragments.

First Person

Richard Flanagan

A young and penniless writer, Kif Kehlmann, is rung in the middle of the night by the notorious criminal, Siegfried Heidl. About to go to trial for defrauding the banks of $700 million, Heidl proposes a deal: $10,000 for Kehlmann to ghost write his memoir in six weeks. As he writes, Kehlmann begins to fear that he is being corrupted, he becomes ever more unsure if he is ghost writing a memoir, or if Heidl is rewriting him. Everything that was certain grows uncertain as he begins to wonder: who is Siegfried Heidl—and who is Kif Kehlmann?

Taboo

Kim Scott

Taboo tells the story of a group of Noongar people who revisit, for the first time in many decades, a taboo place: the site of a massacre that followed the assassination, by these Noongar's descendants, of a white man who had stolen a black woman. They come at the invitation of Dan Horton, the elderly owner of the farm on which the massacres unfolded. He hopes that by hosting the group he will satisfy his wife's dying wishes and cleanse some moral stain from the ground on which he and his family have lived for generations.

The life to come

Michelle de Kretser

Set in Sydney, Paris and Sri Lanka, The Life to Come is a mesmerising novel about the stories we tell and don't tell ourselves as individuals, as societies and as nations. Pippa is a writer who longs for success. Celeste tries to convince herself that her feelings for her married lover are reciprocated. Ash makes strategic use of his childhood in Sri Lanka but blots out the memory of a tragedy from that time. Driven by riveting stories and unforgettable characters, here is a dazzling meditation on intimacy, loneliness and our flawed perception of other people.

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