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NLA News, February 2005: Ned Kelly at the National Library   (website National Library of Australia (NLA) )

Edward ‘Ned’ Kelly would have to be the most renowned of all Australian bushrangers. This was the first book ever published on general bushranging, as distinct from books on crime that incorporated bushranging or books on individual bushrange...

Ned Kelly Australian Ironoutlaw | Ironoutlaw.com   (website Ned Kelly: Australian Ironoutlaw )

Exhibition Opening> Brian Kennedy, Director of the National Gallery of Australia, will open this spectacular exhibition of Sidney Nolan s "Ned Kelly Series". Ned Kelly's Armour > Visit the museum to see the Kelly gangs armour. Book Display> A display of ...

No Title   (website Ned Kelly: Australian Ironoutlaw )

Terrapin Puppet Theatre in association with the National Gallery of Australia presentsThe authorities branded him an outlaw... This September Terrapin Puppet Theatre in association with the National Gallery of Australia will breathe new life into the leg...

Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific   (website Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific )

The Australian Children's Folklore Collection has become the first Museum Victoria collection accepted onto the prestigious UNESCO Australian Memory of the World register. Anita is a Post Doctoral research fellow and Deputy Director of the Cultural Herit...

Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific   (website Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific )

The Australian Children's Folklore Collection has become the first Museum Victoria collection accepted onto the prestigious UNESCO Australian Memory of the World register. Anita is a Post Doctoral research fellow and Deputy Director of the Cultural Herit...

Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific   (website Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific )

The Australian Children's Folklore Collection has become the first Museum Victoria collection accepted onto the prestigious UNESCO Australian Memory of the World register. Anita is a Post Doctoral research fellow and Deputy Director of the Cultural Herit...

Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific   (website Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific )

The Australian Children's Folklore Collection has become the first Museum Victoria collection accepted onto the prestigious UNESCO Australian Memory of the World register. Anita is a Post Doctoral research fellow and Deputy Director of the Cultural Herit...

NGV Members   (website National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) )

> > NGV Members Exclusive: Preview > Thu 21 Feb, 10am–9pm (Introductory Talks: 2pm & 7pm. > Cost $7.50 NGV Member Preview only / $21 NGV Member Family Preview only / $12.50 NGV Member Preview with Introductory Talk / $31 NGV Member Family Preview w...

Designers who circulated with dancers, choreographers, actors and directors, and were   (website(s) the Arts Centre    Victorian Arts Centre (VAC) )

Creating a Scene: The Art of Stage Design Lesley Harding Unsurprisingly, artistically the performing arts in this country experienced a shift in expectation and understanding following exposure to the spectacular productions of the Ballets Russes. In the...

NGV Members   (website National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) )

Sidney Nolan art after dark> Thu 15, Fri 16 & Sat 17 May, 5–9pm> See art in a different light when the NGV comes alive with performances, Introductory Talks, great food and wine. NGV Members Exclusive Preview: Art Deco 1910–1939> Fri 27 Jun, ...

NGV@RT April 2008   (website National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) )

Sidney Nolan Breakfast*> Sat 5 Apr, Sun 19 Apr & Sun 4 May, 8.15â~"10am > Enjoy a light continental breakfast followed by an > Introductory Talk and early morning viewing of Sidney Nolan (bookings essential). Folio Viewing at NGV International* > Sat 12 A...

Chinua Achebe   (website Waverley Library )

HISTORICAL FICTION NOVELS This is a list of historical novels by authors, many of whom have written more than one historical book. Peter Ackroyd Chatterton A fictional account of the life of Thomas Chatterton. ' The Guardian 2002 Guardian First Book Awa...

ABC Unleashed - 02/01/2008: Hicks and the new anti-semitism   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

There are former members of the Third Reich who guarded Jews in Belsen who walk unpoliced around South Australia today; unlike David Hicks. There are former American GIs who slaughtered Vietnamese villagers after raping some of them who can stay out afte...

Layout 1   (website Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) )

2 ART GALLERY OF NSW ANNUAL REPORT 07ñ 08 With over 1.35 million visitors this year, the Art Gallery of NSW is one of Australiaís most popular art museums and a vital part of Sydneyís cultural life. This year we offered hundreds of performances, courses...

Art Gallery of New South Wales: Sidney Nolan   (website Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) )

> Speakers: Edmund Capon, director, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Barry Pearce, head curator of Australian art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Dr Janine Bourke, art historian, Dr Richard Haese, senior lecturer in art history, La Trobe University. Walki...

SLV Email Newsletter February 2008, State Library of Victoria   (website(s) Australian Centre for Youth Literature    State Library of Victoria (SLV) )

CENTRE FOR YOUTH LITERATURE PROGRAM LAUNCHEDThe Centre for Youth Literature (CYL) recently launched its annual program of events for young people and literacy professionals. ATTEND A LEARNING PROGRAMDuring March the Library is offering some great learnin...

Our Sunshine · Readings.com.au   (website Readings: Australia's Finest Book & Music Store )

> <meta name="description" content="Readings â~" independent Australian retailers and online merchants of fine books, music and film." The Girl Who Played With Fire: Stieg LarssonThirteen Reasons Why: Jay AsherToad Surprise: Morris GleitzmanTom's Midnight...

Robert Drewe · Readings.com.au   (website Readings: Australia's Finest Book & Music Store )

> <meta name="description" content="Readings â~" independent Australian retailers and online merchants of fine books, music and film." Penguin Book of the Beach> Robert Drewe (ed.) Best Australian Stories 2006> Robert Drewe (ed.)...

Penguin Group (Australia)   (website Penguin Books Australia )

Robert Drewe's strikingly imaginative re-creation of the inner life of Ned Kelly, the National Hero and Devil Incarnate of the Antipodes, is written with a brilliant clarity and impressionistic economy. It carries the reader into a dreamworld of astonish...