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Ginninderra Press
Ginninderra Press is an Australian independent publisher. Founded in 1996 in Canberra by Stephen Matthews , it takes its name from an Aboriginal word meaning "throwing out little rays of light" and from its original location in the Australian Capital Territory. In 2007 it moved to Port Adelaide in South Australia. Ginninderra Press has been described by ''The Canberra Times'' as "versatile and visionary". In 2003 it published ''How Did the Fire Know We Lived Here?: Canberra's Bush Fires January 2003'' to raise funds for the Canberra Bushfire Recovery Appeal. It sponsored two ACT Literary Awards, the Ginninderra Press Short Story Competition (2000–2005) and the Ginninderra Press Short Story Competition for Children (2000–2006). In the 2021 Australia Day Honours its founder, Stephen Matthews, was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for "service to publishing". To celebrate its 20 years of operation Joan Fenney edited ''Rays of light: Ginninderra Press – the fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canberra
Canberra ( ) is the capital city of Australia. Founded following the federation of the colonies of Australia as the seat of government for the new nation, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory at the northern tip of the Australian Alps, the country's highest mountain range. As of June 2021, Canberra's estimated population was 453,558. The area chosen for the capital had been inhabited by Indigenous Australians for up to 21,000 years, with the principal group being the Ngunnawal people. European settlement commenced in the first half of the 19th century, as evidenced by surviving landmarks such as St John's Anglican Church and Blundells Cottage. On 1 January 1901, federation of the colonies of Australia was achieved. Following a long dispute over whether Sydney or Melbourne should be the national capital, a compromise was reached: the new capital would be buil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Capital Territory
The Australian Capital Territory (commonly abbreviated as ACT), known as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) until 1938, is a landlocked federal territory of Australia containing the national capital Canberra and some surrounding townships. It is located in southeastern Australian mainland as an enclave completely within the state of New South Wales. Founded after Federation as the seat of government for the new nation, the territory hosts the headquarters of all important institutions of the Australian Government. On 1 January 1901, federation of the colonies of Australia was achieved. Section 125 of the new Australian Constitution provided that land, situated in New South Wales and at least from Sydney, would be ceded to the new federal government. Following discussion and exploration of various areas within New South Wales, the ''Seat of Government Act 1908'' was passed in 1908 which specified a capital in the Yass-Canberra region. The territory was transferred to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Adelaide
Port Adelaide is a port-side region of Adelaide, approximately northwest of the Adelaide CBD. It is also the namesake of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield council, a suburb, a federal and state electoral division and is the main port for the city of Adelaide. Port Adelaide played an important role in the formative decades of Adelaide and South Australia, with the port being early Adelaide's main supply and information link to the rest of the world. Its Kaurna name, although not officially adopted as a dual name, is Yartapuulti. History Prior to European settlement Port Adelaide was covered with mangrove swamps and tidal mud flats, and lay next to a narrow creek. At this time, it was inhabited by the Kaurna people, who occupied the Adelaide Plains, the Barossa Valley, the western side of the Fleurieu Peninsula, and northwards past Snowtown. The Kaurna people called the Port Adelaide area Yartapuulti, and the whole estuarine area of the Port River ''Yertabulti'' (''Yerta B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Canberra Times
''The Canberra Times'' is a daily newspaper in Canberra, Australia, which is published by Australian Community Media. It was founded in 1926, and has changed ownership and format several times. History ''The Canberra Times'' was launched in 1926 by Thomas Shakespeare along with his oldest son Arthur Shakespeare and two younger sons Christopher and James. The newspaper's headquarters were originally located in the Civic retail precinct, in Cooyong Street and Mort Street, in blocks bought by Thomas Shakespeare in the first sale of Canberra leases in 1924. The newspaper's first issue was published on 3 September 1926. It was the second paper to be printed in the city, the first being ''The Federal Capital Pioneer''. Between September 1926 and February 1928, the newspaper was a weekly issue. The first daily issue was 28 February 1928. In June 1956, ''The Canberra Times'' converted from broadsheet to tabloid format. Arthur Shakespeare sold the paper to John Fairfax Lt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Australia Day Honours
The 2021 Australia Day Honours are appointments to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by Australian citizens. The list was announced on 26 January 2021 by the Governor General of Australia, David Hurley. The Australia Day Honours are the first of the two major annual honours lists, the first announced to coincide with Australia Day (26 January), with the other being the Queen's Birthday Honours, which are announced on the second Monday in June. Order of Australia Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) General Division * The Reverend Margaret Court, – For eminent service to tennis as an internationally acclaimed player and record-holding grand slam champion, and as a mentor of young sportspersons. * Rabbi Dr John Simon Levi, – For eminent service to Judaism through seminal roles with religious, community and historical organisations, to the advancement of interfaith understanding, tolerance and collaboration, and to education. * Emeritus Prof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of Australia
The Order of Australia is an honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service. It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, on the advice of the Australian Government. Before the establishment of the order, Australian citizens received British honours. The Monarch of Australia is sovereign head of the order, while the Governor-General of Australia is the principal companion/dame/knight (as relevant at the time) and chancellor of the order. The governor-general's official secretary, Paul Singer (appointed August 2018), is secretary of the order. Appointments are made by the governor-general on behalf of the Monarch of Australia, based on recommendations made by the Council of the Order of Australia. Recent knighthoods and damehoods were recommended to the governor-general by the Prime Minister of Australia. Levels of membership The order is divided into a general and a military division. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warwick Anderson
Warwick Hugh Anderson (born 10 December 1958), medical doctor, poet, and historian, is Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance and Ethics in the Department of History and the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, where he was previously an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow (2012–17). He is also honorary professor in the School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and the Royal Society of New South Wales, from which he received the History and Philosophy of Science Medal in 2015. For the 2018–19 academic year, Anderson was the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University. As a historian of science and medicine, Anderson focuses on the biomedical dimensions of racial thought, especially in colonial settings, and the globalisation of medi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalie D-Napoleon
Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon (born 3 August 1972), known professionally as Natalie D-Napoleon, is an Australian/American singer-songwriter, poet, and writer of creative non-fiction from Fremantle, Western Australia. Through fronting the Perth-based ensemble Flavour of the Month, she was a forerunner in the emergence of alternative country music within Australia and was the winner of the 2018 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize. Music Natalie D-Napoleon's emergence upon the Western Australian music scene came via fronting the alternative pop band Bloom. In 1997 Bloom won the Western Australian Music Industry Award for Most Promising New Act. Following the demise of Bloom, D-Napoleon, along with Month of Sunday's guitarist Grant Ferstat, formed an alternative country ensemble Flavour of the Month. The band's name was taken from the title of a song by The Posies from their album ''Frosting on the Beater''. Flavour of the Month subsequently supported Ken Stringfellow of The Posies on o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Foulcher
John Foulcher (born 7 December 1952) is an Australian poet and teacher. Education Foulcher graduated from Macquarie University with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours and a Diploma of Education. He has been a teacher in New South Wales, Victoria, and taught at Radford College until 2011 followed by Burgmann Anglican School in the Canberra suburb of Gungahlin until retiring in June 2016. Literary career His work has been widely anthologised and published in national newspapers and journals including The Age, The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Bulletin, Quadrant, Heat, Poetry Australia, Meanjin and the New Oxford Book of Australian Verse. From 1986 to 1994, his poetry was set for study on the New South Wales Higher School Certificate syllabus. He has been the poetry editor of both The Canberra Times and the Voices, the magazine of the National Library. In 2010, he was awarded a writer in residency in Paris at the Cité internationale des arts by the Literature Board o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonya Hartnett
Sonya Louise Hartnett (born 1968) is an Australian author of fiction for adults, young adults, and children. She has been called "the finest Australian writer of her generation". For her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" Hartnett won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2008, the biggest prize in children's literature. She has published books as Sonya Hartnett, S. L. Hartnett, and Cameron S. Redfern. Writer Hartnett was born in Box Hill, Victoria. She was thirteen years old when she wrote her first novel and fifteen when it was published for the adult market in Australia, ''Trouble All the Way'' (Adelaide: Rigby Publishers, 1984). For years she has written about one novel annually. Although she is often classified as a writer of young adult fiction, Hartnett does not consider this label entirely accurate: "I've been perceived as a young adult writer whereas my books have never really been young ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Metcalf
Tim Metcalf is an Australian poet and doctor and has been described as one of Australia's most published doctor-poets. He lives at Brogo, New South Wales. He has specialized in remote area medicine since 1984 and has worked in NSW, Victoria, NT and British Columbia. In 2007 he was awarded the ACT Writing and Publishing Awards The ACT Writing and Publishing Awards are an Australian literary award presented by the ACT Writers Centre for the best books in the categories of non-fiction, fiction, poetry and children's literature written in the Canberra region. They have bee ... poetry award for his anthology of poems ''Verbal Medicine.''. ''Verbal Medicine'' is his fourth book. He was awarded First Prize in the Annual Australian W B Yeats Poetry Prize in 2000 for his entry 'Stages of Dying" Bibliography * ''Corvus'', Ginninderra Press Canberra 2001 * ''Cut to the Word'', Ginninderra Press Canberra 2002 * ''Into the No Zone'', Ginninderra Press Canberra 2003 * ''Verbal Medici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kel Robertson
Kel Robertson is an Australian novelist who was born in the 1950s on the south coast of New South Wales. His novel ''Smoke & Mirrors'' shared the 2009 Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel, with ''Deep Water'' by Peter Corris. Robertson lived in Sydney and various New South Wales country towns before entering high school in Bathurst. He has studied at a number of tertiary institutions and lives in Canberra. He is the author of three novels featuring the Chinese-Australian Federal Police investigator, Brad Chen and has completed a fourth Chen book. He is the author also of two bureaucratic black comedies under the pen name A C Bland, as well as a futuristic crime novel under the pen name Belle Currer. Novels * ''Dead Set'' (2006) * ''Smoke and Mirrors'' (2008) * ''Rip Off'' (2011) * '' The Final Trials of Alan Mewling'' (2016) * '' The Earlier Trials of Alan Mewling'' (2019) * ''Dare to Think'' (2019): a dystopian crime novel featuring the Cornwall Police Inspector, Melissa Raeburn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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