'Victorian author Laura Jean McKay has won the top prize at the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards with her debut novel, which imagines a viral pandemic in Australia that gives humans the ability to understand animals.' (Introduction)
'She is renowned amongst her peers for her gutsy, pioneering environmentalism over the last 50 years, but it is only now that Valerie Taylor's legacy is being celebrated on screen.' (Introduction)
'Filming is underway in Western Australia's Bremer Bay for a movie adaptation of a popular Australian novel, with directors today revealing three Hollywood stars are set to star on the south coast.' (Introduction)
'In 1911, the Australian Government launched a competition for the design of a new capital.
'The winner was a young man from Chicago, Walter Burley Griffin — but the designs he sent across the seas were actually drawn by his wife, Marion Mahony Griffin.' (Introduction)
