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Calibre Essay Prize open for entries, development opportunity for regional youths, plus winner of Portia Geach Memorial Award and finalists of NT Performing Arts Awards.

Books, live music, authors and more, surrounded by autumn leaves in regional Victoria. How cosy is that?

Winning the Miles Franklin Prize is about as good as it gets for Australian novelists. Not only is it our richest literary award, it’s also the most likely to…

<strong>Friday</strong>: Aboriginal organisations accuse the NT government of failing to carry out emergency plans over outbreak. Plus: recordings show orcas hunting blue whales

Guardian Australia recently launched a new summer podcast on books and ideas to keep you dialled in over the break. Top Australian authors will reflect on

Experimental elegies, portraits of resilience, and political manifestos: 25 of the best reads of the year, as picked by Guardian Australia critics and staff

Jonathan Franzen, Helen Garner, Kazuo Ishiguro and other leading writers from home and abroad give thanks for the books that got them through a difficult year.

Jonathan Franzen, Helen Garner, Kazuo Ishiguro and other leading writers from home and abroad give thanks for the books that got them through a difficult year.

Jonathan Franzen, Helen Garner, Kazuo Ishiguro and other leading writers from home and abroad give thanks for the books that got them through a difficult year.

Melbourne restaurateurs have sprinted out of the gates with a swathe of new venues.