Karen Fox works as a research editor for the Australian Dictionary of Biography. The Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) is Australia’s largest and longest-running social sciences and humanities ...

The launch of the first Australian National Dictionary in decades is set to highlight changes in the English language specific to Australia. The dictionary also explains just how each of the thousands ...

FOR Peter Rose, the story won't end. His characters keep pulling him deeper into their orbit and he's not sure where all of this will lead. In A Case of Knives (2005), Rose, poet, memoirist and editor ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) is a fascinating trove that documents and describes the ...

Malcolm Allbrook works for the Australian Dictionary of Biography at the Australian National University. The Indigenous Australian Dictionary of Biography is part-funded by the Australian Research ...

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