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Australia’s most popular short story competition, The Best Australian Yarn, has returned for 2024 with a bigger prize pool, a new addition to the Prize Jury and an exciting new category.
"It was a matter of interest to me that many Australian academics seemed to think the only creative works of any consequence in South-East Asia were novels set in villages or kampongs, presented mostly in a simplistic way by decent but essentially parochial storytellers about deprivations referable to callous European rule"
Boy Swallows Universe, the bestselling Australian novel, is now a top-ranked series on Netflix.
An auction of photography by John Witzig titled 'Endless Summer' gives surf fans the chance to explore Australian surf history – a throwback to dreamier time.
Someone else who certainly harbours delusions of grandeur is Elon Musk, though this time the subject isn’t fame or money, whether to buy Twitter or launch rocket ships . . .