Cirrus@Austlit

'Born and raised in Parramatta, it's not so much the familiarity, relatives or friends that made Yumna Kassab happy to call the suburb home. It was a football club.' (Introduction)

'Not many people wonder whether animals have their own kind of religion or what a "Martian archaeologist" would make of a fork.' 

'When Doris Fish first took to the stage in Sydney in the early 1970s, the drag scene was very different to today's polished and professional queens performing on television and in children's libraries.'  (Introduction)

'For the first time, the best Australian children's books of the year have been decided by the young people reading them.'