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The Unknown Industrial Prisoner
''The Unknown Industrial Prisoner'' (1971) is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author David Ireland (author), David Ireland. In 1978 a film version was planned, to be produced by Richard Mason (film producer), Richard Mason and directed by Arch Nicholson, with Ken Cameron also working on it. Funding was from Film Australia. However, the Minister for Home Affairs Bob Ellicott cancelled the film on the grounds it was uncommercial, a rare instance of political interference in the Australian film industry.David Stratton, ''The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival'', Angus & Robertson, 1980 p16Rod Bishop & Peter Beilby, "Ken Cameron", ''Cinema Papers'', March–April 1979 p 258 Critical reception Helen Brown in ''The Canberra Times'' noted that the novel is "a big, good book with an important and timely theme and it should assure David Ireland a place in the front ranks of contemporary Australian writers. Yet my chewing was dogged and dutiful rather than enjoyab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is a Wikimedia movement affinity group for contributors with shared goals. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within sister projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by '' Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outside organizations relevant to the field at issue. For e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arch Nicholson
Arch Nicholson (1941 – 24 February 1990) was an Australian film director. He was born in Melbourne and grew up in Western Australia, originally training to be a teacher. Seeing ''Last Year at Marienbad'' made him want to become a filmmaker and he spent 12 years making documentaries at the Commonwealth Film Unit such as ''The Russians''. He then began directing episodes of TV shows such as ''The Flying Doctors'' and ''Special Squad''. Nicholson was married to former Play School presenter Jan Kingsbury. He died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in 1990, aged 48.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p88-89 Select Credits *''A Good Thing Going'' (1978) (TV movie) *''Deadline'' (1982) *'' Buddies'' (1983) *''Fortress'' (1985) *''Dark Age'' (1987) *''Weekend with Kate ''Weekend with Kate'' is a 1990 Australian film directed by Arch Nicholson and starring Colin Friels and Catherine McClements Catherine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles Franklin Award-winning Works
The mile, sometimes the international mile or statute mile to distinguish it from other miles, is a British imperial unit and United States customary unit of distance; both are based on the older English unit of length equal to 5,280 English feet, or 1,760 yards. The statute mile was standardised between the British Commonwealth and the United States by an international agreement in 1959, when it was formally redefined with respect to SI units as exactly . With qualifiers, ''mile'' is also used to describe or translate a wide range of units derived from or roughly equivalent to the Roman mile, such as the nautical mile (now exactly), the Italian mile (roughly ), and the Chinese mile (now exactly). The Romans divided their mile into 5,000 Roman feet but the greater importance of furlongs in Elizabethan-era England meant that the statute mile was made equivalent to or in 1593. This form of the mile then spread across the British Empire, some successor states of which c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1971 Australian Novels
* The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclipse, February 10, and August 1971 lunar eclipse, August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events January * January 2 – 66 people are killed and over 200 injured 1971 Ibrox disaster, during a crush in Glasgow, Scotland. * January 5 – The first ever One Day International cricket match is played between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. * January 8 – Tupamaros kidnap Geoffrey Jackson, British ambassador to Uruguay, in Montevideo, keeping him captive until September. * January 9 – Uruguayan president Jorge Pacheco Areco demands emergency powers for 90 days due to kidnappings, and receives them the next day. * January 12 – The landmark United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels By David Ireland
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Acolyte (novel)
''The Acolyte'' is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Thea Astley first published in 1972. Plot summary The novel is told in the first person by “the acolyte,” Paul Vesper. The novel traces the career of a fictional Australian musician and composer named Jack Holberg. Beginning in obscurity as a piano player in Grogbusters, a dreary little Queensland town, the blind Holberg eventually gains international recognition as a composer. Vesper, who had met Holberg during his less renowned period, gives up an engineering career to serve the great man—in a sense, to become his eyes. Notes In an interview noted in ''The Canberra Times'', Astley stated that she wrote the book partly in answer to Patrick White's ''The Vivisector''. ""Why write only about the great, changing Christ figures?" she asked a Sydney journalist. "Why not write about the other people who share their lives?"" Critical reception After the novel had been republished in the US in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Horse Of Air
''A Horse of Air'' (1970) is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Dal Stivens. Story outline The horse of the title is said to make reference to the Australian Aboriginal term for the night parrot. When horses where first introduced to the Australian mainland, their galloping motion was said to resemble the flight of the now critically endangered low-flying parrot. Stivens was himself a keen ornithologist who favoured finches over parrots. However, the phrase is taken from a 17th-century 'mad song' called Tom o'Bedlam. The novel centres on the ravings of its chief narrator, Harry Craddock. Harry uses his wealth and influence in elite circles to organise a search for the elusive bird. But his discontent with mainstream Australian society is clear. On p. 67, for example, he proclaims: "Australians are a nation of nobodies and ning-nongs – we deserve every ounce of the continent's indifference!" The novel advocates a return to the colonial vision ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1971 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1971. Major publications Books * Jon Cleary – '' Mask of the Andes'' * Kenneth Cook – ''Piper in the Market-Place'' * Dymphna Cusack – '' A Bough in Hell'' * Frank Hardy – ''The Outcasts of Foolgarah'' * Donald Horne – ''But What If There Are No Pelicans?'' * David Ireland – ''The Unknown Industrial Prisoner'' * George Johnston – ''A Cartload of Clay'' * Thomas Keneally – '' A Dutiful Daughter'' * Hal Porter – ''The Right Thing'' * Judah Waten – ''So Far No Further'' * Morris West – '' Summer of the Red Wolf'' Short stories * Elizabeth Jolley – "Bill Sprockett's Land" * Hal Porter ** "Brett" ** ''Selected Stories'' Children's and Young Adult fiction * Hesba Brinsmead – ''Longtime Passing'' * David Martin – ''Hughie'' * Christobel Mattingley – ''Windmill at Magpie Creek'' * Elyne Mitchell – ''Light Horse to Damascus'' * Ivan Southall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Ellicott
Robert James Ellicott, (15 April 1927 – 31 October 2022) was an Australian barrister, politician and judge. He served as Solicitor-General of Australia (1969–1973) before entering the House of Representatives at the 1974 federal election as a member of the Liberal Party. He held senior ministerial office in the Fraser Government, serving as Attorney-General (1975–1977), Minister for Home Affairs (1977–1980), the Capital Territory (1977–1980), and Home Affairs and the Environment (1980–1981). He retired from politics to be appointed to the Federal Court of Australia, serving as a judge from 1981 to 1983. Early life Ellicott was born on 15 April 1927 in Moree, New South Wales. He attended Fort Street High School and the University of Sydney, graduating Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws. Ellicott was admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 1950 and was Solicitor-General of Australia from 1969 to 1973. He was appointed Queen's Counsel (QC) in 1964. As solicitor- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Australia
Film Australia was a company established by the Government of Australia to produce films about Australia in 1973. Its predecessors were the Cinema and Photographic Branch (1913–38), the Australian National Film Board (1939–1955, under different departments), and the Commonwealth Film Unit (1956–72). Film Australia became Film Australia Limited in 1988 and was consolidated into Screen Australia in 2008. Administration of the Film Australia Collection was transferred from Screen Australia to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia on 1 July 2011. The mission of the organisation changed through its earlier incarnations, but from 1973 its aim was to create an audio-visual record of Australian culture, through the commissioning, distribution and management of programs that deal with matters of national interest or illustrate and interpret aspects of Australian life. History In 1913 the Cinema and Photographic Branch (also known as the Cinema Branch) was created in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Cameron
Ken Cameron (born 1946) is an Australian film and television director and writer. Cameron was born in Tenterfield, New South Wales, Australia and graduated from Sydney University with BA in 1968. He has won two AFI Awards for directing. Filmography * ''The Strip'' (2008) TV * ''White Collar Blue'' (2002) TV * ''My Brother Jack'' (2001) (TV) * ''Halifax f.p: A Person of Interest'' (2000) TV * ''Secret Men's Business'' (1999) TV * '' Miracle at Midnight'' (1998) TV * ''Payback'' (1997) TV * ''Dalva'' (1996) TV * ''Bordertown'' (1995) TV mini-series * ''Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All'' (1994) TV * ''Joh's Jury'' (1993) TV * ''Brides of Christ'' (1991) TV mini-series * '' Police Crop: The Winchester Conspiracy'' (1990) TV * ''Bangkok Hilton'' (1989) TV mini-series * ''The Clean Machine'' (1988) TV * ''Stringer'' (1988) TV series * ''The Umbrella Woman ''The Umbrella Woman'' (released in some areas as ''The Good Wife'') is a 1987 film directed by Ken Cameron and starr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Mason (film Producer)
Richard Mason (1926–2002) was an Australian film producer and director. He was born on the South Coast of New South Wales, the son of a parson. During the Second World War he guarded Italian Prisoners of War. After the war he joined Sydney's Mercury Theatre as an actor, co-starring in Molière's play, ''The Imaginary Invalid''. However, he soon moved to film, starting as a wardrobe assistant for ''Eureka Stockade'' (1949), then as an assistant at the Colorfilm lab, before joining the Commonwealth Film Unit (now Screen Australia). He remained with the Commonwealth Film Unit, which then became Film Australia, for many years before resigning in 1978 over the Australian government's political censorship of ''The Unknown Industrial Prisoner''. Once independent, he produced ''Winter of Our Dreams'' (1981), '' Far East'' (1982), and '' One Night Stand'' (1984). Mason died in Sydney on 22 November 2002. A focus on Australian Aborigines A series of short films exploring themes of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
