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Having racked up four total points since the start of conference play, the Cal women’s soccer team remains just as competitive as its Pac-12 counterparts.

Named after the author of My Brilliant Career and established by her bequest, the annual Miles Franklin Literary Award is one of Australia’s most prestigious, valuable and popular fiction prizes. So what does it take to call yourself a Miles Franklin winner? We’ve crunched the data on every winner since the first in 1957, ahead of the announcement of this year’s award on Thursday afternoon. Be a man Twice as many men have won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, with men writing 41 of the ...

May 16, 2021 10:58 PM EDT In Australias collective mythology, the outback plays a significant role. For others, its a mythical land of extreme beauty and adversity that shaped the Australian psyche. For some, though, this is a false myth - a tale that "Australia wished to tell itself and desired to believe, of a property that had been taken from Aboriginal people," as author Alexis Wright puts it. (Photo : Photo by Mark Kolbe/Getty Images) Outback (Photo : lum-box on PIxabay) What is certain i...

Last modified on Mon 17 May 2021 17.04 EDT Good morning. There are no signs of the violence in Gaza easing, as pressure is growing on the international governments, including Australia, to take stronger action against many of the world’s conflicts. Australia is also facing calls to take a tougher line on Myanmar, with demands for sanctions on coup leaders. And there is increasing pressure for Australia to open its borders to the world sooner rather than later. Two hundred Palestinians, inc...

In Guardian Australia’s new series, the Modern Outback, launching today, we examine some of the environmental and social challenges facing the outback. Protecting this land, its plants and animals, and those who care for it should be one of our top concerns. Our team of journalists and photographers meet those trying to address each of these challenges, and we also hear from those who know this land best to discover what they think the priorities should be. Australias Modern Outback email sig...

What writers look for when they read a novel We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Ed., Belinda Castles As The Sydney Morning Herald’s new literary editor in 1996, I dashed off a note to writer Debra Adelaide, asking her to review Kate Jennings’ first novel, Snake. Twenty-five years later, I’m thrilled to see the ripples of enjoyment and influence set off by my choice of a perceptive reader. Within days of...

"Whos on The List this week?" That was the question back in the Fall of 2012. The List was a list of names that came out every other week after Zumba instructor Alexis Wright was arrested and charged with prostitution. It seems men were going to the Zumba studio for more than some Latin dance moves. According to the New York Daily News, Wright, who graduated from Mt Ararat and went to USM in L/A, videotaped many of the encounters (which of course, leaked online), and kept records of her clients...

Advertisement Novelist S.L. Lim has become the first non-binary writer to be in contention for one of Australia’s most important literary awards since changes were made to the eligibility requirements of the $50,000 Stella Prize for women’s writing. But Lim, who made the longlist with second novel Revenge: Murder in Three Parts, played down the significance of the inclusion which comes after the award changed entry guidelines to include women-identifying and non-binary writers in 2019. Lim...

The Daily Yonder 8 Rural Books to Help You Get Through the Wintry Weeks at Home – Part 2 The Daily Yonder team comes back with more book recommendations for your reading pleasure. These rural novels, memoirs and short story collections are worth a spot on your reading list. Last week we published a list of some of our favorite rural books to help get you through a tough February. But as temperatures gradually raise and the sun comes out, we believe that reading a great book, inside ...

Antipodean China Australia and China: the two terms are so fluid, so contested, yet inescapably denotative – the China of the mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the diaspora? The Australia that does not exist? Antipodean China, born of intercultural dialogue and exchange, goes against the typical hubris of the global north. Despite enjoying the freedom, power and privilege to learn from other cultures at its cosmopolitan leisure, Australia can often barely be bothered to understand one – wherea...