Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Ramona Koval: If you're a fan of Australian biographies, those big fat books with lots of research, ...

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"What Australia suffers from is not a lack of artists," says art historian Bernard Smith, "but a lack of audience for their art." It's an intriguing idea, and one which may well be right. The ...

MARK COLVIN: Australia's richest biography prize, the National Biography Award, has gone to an unusual work about a very unusual pair: The Two Frank Thrings. The Australian father and son had film and ...

Kurdish Iranian writer and refugee Behrouz Boochani, who has been held in Australian migration detention on Manus Island since 2013, has won Australia’s National Biography Award for his memoir – No ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Here was a moment. On October 24, 1977, the historian Manning Clark launched Graham Freudenberg’s biography of Gough Whitlam, A Certain ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The life of Noeline Brown - actress, comedian and, most recently, celebrity ballroom dancer - is given a beaut biographical treatment in ...

Kurdish-Iranian writer and refugee Behrouz Boochani, who has been held in Australian migration detention on Manus Island since 2013, has won Australia's National Biography Award for his memoir ‘No ...

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