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Tony Birch
Tony Birch (born 1957) is an Aboriginal Australian author, academic and activist. He regularly appears on ABC local radio and Radio National shows and at writers’ festivals. He was head of the honours programme for creative writing at the University of Melbourne before becoming the first recipient of the Dr Bruce McGuinness Indigenous Research Fellowship at Victoria University in Melbourne in June 2015. In 2017 he became the first Indigenous writer to win the Patrick White Award. Early life and education Birch was born around 1957 and has grown up around Fitzroy, a working-class suburb of Melbourne considered a slum. After being expelled from school for the second time, he left school aged 15 and became a telegram boy on a bicycle. Career After spending a decade as a firefighter, Birch attended Melbourne university as a mature student when he was 30 years old. In 2003 he was awarded the Chancellor's Medal for the best PhD in Arts. Birch has appeared on ABC radio on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Climate Change Activism
The climate movement is a global social movement focused on pressuring governments and industry to take action (also called "climate action") addressing the causes and Effects of climate change, impacts of climate change. environmental movement, Environmental non-profit organizations have engaged in significant climate activism since the late 1980s and early 1990s, as they sought to influence the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Climate activism has become increasingly prominent over time, gaining significant momentum during the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, 2009 Copenhagen Summit and particularly following the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2016. Environmental organization, Environmental organizations take various actions such as Peoples Climate March, Peoples Climate Marches. A major event was the global climate strike in September 2019 organized by Fridays For Future and E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, also known as the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, were first awarded in 1979. They are among the richest literary awards in Australia. Notable prizes include the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, and the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction. , the Awards are presented by the NSW Government and administered by the State Library of New South Wales in association with Create NSW, with support of Multicultural NSW and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Total prize money in 2019 was up to A$305,000, with eligibility limited to writers, translators and illustrators with Australian citizenship or permanent resident status. History The NSW Premier's Literary Awards were established in 1979 by the New South Wales Premier Neville Wran. Commenting on its purpose, Wran said: "We want the arts to take, and be seen to take, their proper place in our social priorities. If governments treat writers an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland Literary Awards
The Queensland Literary Awards is an awards program established in 2012 by the Queensland literary community, funded by sponsors and administered by the State Library of Queensland. Like the former Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, the QLAs celebrate and promote outstanding Australian writing. The awards aim to seek out, recognize and nurture great talent in Australian writing. They draw national and international attention to some of our best writers and to Queensland's recognition of outstanding Australian literature and publishing. These Awards have a focus on supporting new writing through the Emerging Queensland Writer – Manuscript Award and Unpublished Indigenous writer – David Unaipon Award. "They give local writers and new writers something to aspire to." History The Queensland Literary Awards was established by a not-for-profit association of passionate Queensland volunteers and advocates for literature, in response to Queensland Premier Campbell Newman disesta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award For Indigenous Writing
The Victorian Premier's Prize for Indigenous Writing is a prize category in the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were created by the Victorian Government with the aim of raising the profile of contemporary creative writing and Australia's publishing industry. As of 2013, it is reportedly Australia's richest literary p .... The award commenced in 2004 and in 2012 the prize was valued at A$20,000. The winner of this category prize competes with the other category winners for overall Victorian Prize for Literature valued at an additional 100,000. Nominees are allowed to enter other categories of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. In 2004 Vivienne Cleven was the inaugural winner. The prize value was increased to A$25,000 in 2016. Winners and shortlists Winners of the Overall Victorian Prize for Literature have a blue ribbon (). References {{Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles Franklin Literary Award
The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879–1954), who is best known for writing the Australian classic ''My Brilliant Career'' (1901). She bequeathed her estate to fund this award. As of 2016, the award is valued A$60,000. __TOC__ Winners Controversies Author Frank Moorhouse was disqualified from consideration for his novel Grand Days because the story was set in Europe during the 1920s and was not sufficiently Australian. 1995 winner Helen Darville, also known as Helen Demidenko and Helen Dale, won for The Hand that signed the Paper and sparked a debate about authenticity in Australian literature. Darville claimed to be of Ukrainian descent and said it was fiction based on family history. Writer David Marr, who presented the award to her said that revelations about her true ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Challis RAKA Award
The Kate Challis RAKA Award is an arts award worth , awarded annually by the University of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia to Indigenous Australian creative artists. It is awarded in a five-year cycle, each year in a different area of the arts: creative prose, drama, the visual arts, script-writing (screenplay or for theatre) and poetry. The award is sponsored by Professor Emeritius Bernard Smith, art and cultural historian, in honour his late wife, Kate Challis, who was earlier known as Ruth Adeney. "RAKA" is an acronym for "Ruth Adeney Koori Award". In the Pintupi language, "raka" means "five", and in Warlpiri, "rdaka" means "hand". It has been awarded since 1991. Past winners Past winners include: *Steven McGregor and David Tranter for the screenplay of '' Sweet Country'', 2017 * Yhonnie Scarce for her artwork of blown glass, ''Remember Royalty'', 2018 *Alexis Wright for her novel ''The Swan Book'' (2016) *Ivan Sen for the film script for '' Toomelah'', 2011 * Vivienne C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards
The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards were an Australian suite of literary awards inaugurated in 1999 and disestablished in 2012. It was one of the most generous suites of literary awards within Australia, with $225,000 in prize money across 14 categories with prizes up to $25,000 in some categories. The awards upon their establishment incorporated a number of pre-existing awards including the Steele Rudd Award for the best Australian collection of new short fiction and the David Unaipon Award for unpublished Indigenous writing. The awards were established by Peter Beattie, the then Premier of Queensland in 1999 and abolished by Premier Campbell Newman, shortly after winning the 2012 Queensland state election. In response, the Queensland writing community established the Queensland Literary Awards to ensure the Awards continued in some form. The judging panels remained largely the same, and University of Queensland Press committed to continue to publish the winners of the Eme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Inc
Schwartz Publishing is an Australian publishing house, digital media and news media organisation based in Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria established by Australian property developer Morry Schwartz in the 1980s. Since the late 1990s many of its publications have appeared under the Black Inc imprint.Susan Wyndham "Developer adds another story"in ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 12 June 2004 Schwartz Publishing has its complementary brand Schwartz Media, which all sit under the wider group of 'Schwartz' companies specialising in newspapers, books, essays, magazines, journals, podcasts and online news media. History In the 1980s Schwartz Publishing mainly published American self-help books. Its all-time bestseller was ''Life's Little Instruction Book'' by H. Jackson Brown Jr. with 300,000 copies sold. In the 1990s Schwartz Publishing set up the Black Inc imprint, publishing since 2001 the ''Quarterly Essay'' and since 2005 ''The Monthly''. In 2017, Black Inc. Books alongside La Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Growing Up Aboriginal In Australia
''Growing Up Aboriginal In Australia'' is a 2018 biographical anthology compiled and edited by Anita Heiss and published by Black Inc. It includes 52 short written pieces by Aboriginal Australians from many walks of life and discusses issues like Australian history of colonisation and assimilation, activism, significance of country, culture and language, identity and intersectionality, family, and racism. Notable contributors include poet Tony Birch, singer Deborah Cheetham, Australian rules footballer Adam Goodes, and actress Miranda Tapsell. The book won the 2019 Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year award at the Australian Book Industry Awards. Background Anita Heiss is an Aboriginal Australian author of non-fiction, historical fiction, poetry, and social commentary and is of Wiradjuri heritage. She is a longtime advocate for Indigenous Australian literature and a Lifetime Ambassador of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. Heiss was inspired to create an anthology of tru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood (Birch Novel)
''Blood'' (2011) is a novel by Australian author Tony Birch. It was shortlisted for the 2012 Miles Franklin Literary Award. Plot summary The novel follows a family in crisis, breaking down under the weight of family violence, drugs, lost opportunities and general neglect. Notes * Dedication: For Brian and Debbie - with all my love, for taking my hand. *Epigraph: 'Then the boy, me and the boy we walked for miles through stormy weather hand in hand, we roamed the land and held the gleaming heart together.' Kate Rusby, 'The Bitter Boy' Bibliography * Reviews Conrad Walters in ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' found the novel to build to a compelling last third but was let down a little by a hurried ending. Ed Wright in ''The Australian'' considered it an "absorbing and endearing tale of children in adversity". Awards and nominations * 2011 highly commended The Fellowship of Australian Writers Victoria Inc. National Literary Awards — FAW Christina Stead Award * 2012 shortl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seed Mob
__NOTOC__ Seed Mob, also known simply as Seed, is an Indigenous youth climate network in Australia. History Seed, established in 2014, is Australia's first Indigenous youth climate network . It is led by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people. It was initially a branch of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, but became independent in 2020. It was co-founded by Amelia Telford, who is currently its national director, and Larissa Baldwin-Roberts, who is CEO of political activist group GetUp!. Campaigns In 2015, Seed, in an alliance of 13 environmental groups, was successful in campaigning for Australia's four largest banks to rule out funding the Adani coal mine in Queensland. Seed has been campaigning against Origin Energy's plans to do gas fracking in the Beetaloo Basin in the Northern Territory The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian territ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
