Cirrus@Austlit

'When David Wenham walked into rehearsals for A Christmas Carol in October, he felt the same way he did as a young actor preparing for his very first roles.' 

'When Ana Maria Belo steps on stage, she is focused on more than just remembering her lines and which props to grab.'

'Eric Bana is one of Hollywood's brightest stars, but these days he prefers to shine on home soil.'

'Baz Luhrmann's Elvis and ABC TV's Mystery Road: Origin have dominated this year's Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards, held on Wednesday at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney.'

'If you have ever visited State Library Victoria (SLV), you may have noticed the district braille signs around the building's exterior.'

'Billy Craigie, Bert Williams, Tony Coorey, Michael Anderson, Bobbi Sykes, Paul Coe.

'These names, and so many others, should be as familiar to every Australian as Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X are the world over.' (Introduction) 

'An iconic song that references children from the Stolen Generations returning to family and country is lifting hopes that an endangered First Nations language could be revived.'

'A small country town in north Queensland holds secrets within its sugar mill, while outside the scent of corruption sweeps through the cane.'

'Far North Queensland-based author and former foreign correspondent Nicolas Rothwell has won the $80,000 Prime Minister's Literary Award for fiction for his third novel, Red Heaven, in a ceremony in Launceston on Tuesday afternoon that was disrupted midway through by a fire alarm.' 

'Before he was famous, as young Archie Roach mingled with other young Aboriginal people in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, he told those he met he was looking for his family.' 

'The lyrics of Paul Kelly's How to Make Gravy are etched in the minds of many Australians, but they are especially relevant to those behind bars at Christmas.'