Arcadia Public Library

Ten award winning Australian playwrights talk candidly about their best known plays. Each writer reveals their writing process and discusses the themes and characters within their work. The dynamic presenter, Dr. Tess Brady, provides a critical commentary for each play. Joanna Murray-Smith discusses the power of words in Nightfall and explores love, identity and belonging in Honour. Louis Nowra talks about shedding the misconceptions of childhood...

Ten award winning Australian playwrights talk candidly about their best known plays. Each writer reveals their writing process and discusses the themes and characters within their work. The dynamic presenter, Dr. Tess Brady, provides a critical commentary for each play. Jack Hibberd talks about bringing down the forth wall in Dimboola and the existential clown in A Stretch of the Imagination. Debra Oswald explores the ugly ducking story underlying...

Australia is a country of many climates and cultures. So is there an identifiable Australian architecture? We canvass the opinions of a range of architects around Australia, including Glenn Murcutt, Harry Seidler and Phillip Cox. Some state there is no such thing as "Australian architecture", placing a strong emphasis on the role of landscape and climate as mediating factors in the way buildings find their individuality.

When the sheep on Nicky's family's ranch start losing their wool, the Thea Sisters head to Australia to investigate.

A basic overview of the history, geography, climate, and culture of Australia.

Bran nue dae, the musical, is a story of an Aboriginal boy's flight from Perth to his homeland at Djaridjin (Lombadina). The film is structured around two main themes: the production of the musical and the life of Jimmy Chi. Both elements are interwoven through filmed sequences from the stage production, interviews with Jimmy Chi and participants in the stage production and archival footage of Broome.

Together, Australia and the many small islands of Oceania make up Earth's smallest continent. Though the continent is small, it is packed with plenty to see. Readers will hop from island to island as they examine the incredible wildlife and landscapes of Australia and Oceania. Along the way, they will also explore the continent's history with rich text and stunning visuals, and meet the people who call it home. Features include engaging sidebars that...

A Million Acres A Year describes the epic history of post war agricultural development in Western Australia and the personal journeys of some country people - a rural vanguard which has come to acknowledge that current forms of agriculture are not sustainable, and that the limited solutions we are trying to implement are not enough. Their story unfolds in the remaining mallee/heath lands of WA's 'Wheatbelt', most of which were released to agriculture...

Her mother calls it nonsense when Lizzie pretends that their house is pretty or that a bath is the sea, but it turns out that imagination runs in the family.