A review by Nalini Haynes Hunt for the Wilderpeople is a family movie with a PG rating based on Wild Pork and Watercress, a book by Barry …
Aust. & NZ
Kakadu Sunset by Annie Seaton
A review by Lynne Larby Kakadu Sunsets are gorgeous but underlying danger lurks, threatening the lives of locals and tourists alike. Ellie Porter is a helicopter …
Best of Adam Sharp by Graeme Simsion
A review by Nalini Haynes The author of The Rosie Project has done it again: he’s knocked it out of the park with another …
Annie Seaton
Romance author Annie Seaton is today’s guest interviewee (text only). Annie is an internationally-published romance writer, and in 2015 was voted Best Established Australian Author by …
Accessibility for Gamers with Disabilities
PAXAus2016 featured a number of panels on diversity including this panel on accessibility for gamers with disabilities. The panel features five highly knowledgeable industry specialists …
Goodwood by Holly Throsby
A review by Nalini Haynes Jean is in her final year of high school in Goodwood, a small Australian country town in 1992, when people …
Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham
A review by Nalini Haynes Tilly Dunnage, the dressmaker, returns to a small Australian town in the 1950s to look after her mother, colloquially known …
Vaxcards
Dean and Adam developed a new card game called Vaxcards to educate people about diseases and immunisation. Nalini Haynes met them at PAXAus2016, interviewed them …
Misappropriation in Action: Zeroes by Westerfeld, Lanagan & Biancotti
On the weekend I was talking to another person with disability on Twitter about poor representations of disability, citing Zeroes by Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan and Deborah …
Juliet Marillier
Dark Matter Zine puts renowned fantasy author Juliet Marillier in the limelight in this podcast (above and on iTunes) and video (embedded below). Juliet has …
Valdur the Viking and the Ghostly Goths by Craig Cormick
A review by Nalini Haynes Valdur the Viking emerges from a pickle barrel after eating nearly all the pickles to discover all the Vikings on …
Lionel Shriver, Representation and Misappropriation Part 3
This is part 3 of my response to Lionel Shriver’s views on appropriation and representation of others’ experiences. (Part 1 is here and part 2 is here.) …
Dick of the Day or why Lionel Shriver is wrong
This is not part of my three-part response to Lionel Shriver. This is a blog about yesterday and living as disabled; I am trying to …
Lionel Shriver, Representation and Misappropriation Part 2
This is part 2 of my response to Lionel Shriver’s views on appropriation and representation of others’ experiences. (Part 1 is here.) In this part …
Lionel Shriver, Representation and Misappropriation Part 1
My response to Lionel Shriver and authors’ appropriation of ‘other’ experience is in three parts, scheduled weekly. This is part one. Lionel Shriver’s speech at …