Dymphna Cusack News Today

Eagle Archives, Jan. 31, 1953: Over 400 items lost by bus riders are stored in Berkshire Street Railways main office on East Street.

A new collection of essays chronicles Australia’s radical theatre, The New Theatre, writes Maree F Roberts, where women took on prominent roles, including those of creative and production directors, and playwrights.

A timely biography of an important Australian novelist delves into the complexities of her personal and political life.

In an extract from his book, Australia in 50 Plays, Julian Meyrick reflects on an under-appreciated contribution to Australian theatre by the poet Douglas Stewart.

Literary hoaxes thrive on exposure. At best, they are politically transgressive. They strip away anything smug, pretentious or hypocritical to reveal

This book examines literary representations of Sydney and its waterway in the context of Australian modernism and modernity in the interwar period. Then as now, Sydney Harbour is both an ecological wonder and ladened with economic, cultural, historical and aesthetic significance for the city by its shores. In Australia’s earliest canon of urban fiction, writers including Christina Stead, Dymphna Cusack, Eleanor Dark, Kylie Tennant and M. Barnard Eldershaw explore the myth and the reality of t...