Wild, unpredictable, and deeply vulnerable, Barbara and her sister René are singing for their lives. Barbara’s been trying to make it in Sydney, bu...

When "The Adventures of Barry McKenzie" burst onto the Australian screen in 1972 it created a furore. With 'Bazza' (Barry Crocker), the chundering,...

"Bastard Boys" is the story of the fight that stopped the nation -- the 1998 battle for Australia's waterfront. More than just a dispute over refor...

Arty is huge. Ginormous. Morbidly and grossly obese, he is in need of a gastric bypass to save his life. At over 400 kilos, he is the world's fatte...

Brisbane 1992: A boy, Amir, sees his parents on the news, under arrest for protesting at the Iranian Embassy in Canberra against atrocities in thei...

An epic chronicle of the refugee experience, "Beautiful Words" weaves together three very different stories of survival, told through the eyes of t...

John McCallum's new history explores the relationship between 20th century Australian drama and a developing concept of nation. The book focuses on...

'Birthrights' tells the story of two sisters who compete for their child's love. At 29 years of age, Helen has a vital operation that stops her fro...

Rowena Batts has no voice, but she is the world's biggest blabbermouth. She's just started at a new school so life's a bit of a challenge, her new ...

It's Toby Ackland's birthday party down near the surf club -- and that means heaps of grog, drugs and good clean fun. But by the morning, a young g...

Contains six plays. ENUFF by John Harding is a frightening and funny play about an Australian future where black patience has run out. A violent up...

"Girls, I think your father's dead. I knocked his knees out. I conked his head. I shot that house clown in the neck". In a dirt-dry town in rural A...

Brutality in the workplace, rage in the streets, seething in the home. The vulnerability of political parties when they've forgotten why they're th...

‘Mostly it feels like you don’t know—like you’re reaching for something that you can’t quite grab. Some writers talk about their fear of the blank ...

Side by side in a leafy suburb, Thom lives in one flat, Alethea in another. It's pretty clear that their respective, unsatisfying lives would impro...

Written in Australian poetic vernacular, Boy out of the Country tells a story of land, family and belonging. A family property, worthless for gener...

After an extensive period of writing for film, Louis Nowra returns to the stage with "The Boyce Trilogy", an epic saga about the Boyce family, a fa...

Lauded by many as one of the most powerful Australian films made in the past 20 years, Rowan Woods' stunning debut feature The Boys touched off a s...

Brett Sprague is just out of jail. Reunited with his mum Sandra and brothers Glenn and Stevie, he's ready to reclaim his life. But things have chan...

David can’t get enough, of anything. Alcohol, drugs, women, gambling -- whatever it takes to escape the bark of the black dog. Consumed by an overw...

To survive the 90s you've got to be lucky, rich or able to tell Brilliant Lies (2 acts, 4 men, 3 women).

A car crash in the Central Desert. A broken man, about to leave his wife. A woman miscarrying her first born child. Broken entwines the stories of ...