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Melbourne’s Imogen Batt-Doyle wins Australia’s most prestigious poetry competition – The Cloncurry Poetry Prize 2024

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  A three-years-in-the-writing deeply personal ode to the vast red dirt of the Outback has won Australia’s most prestigious poetry competition – The 2024 Cloncurry Poetry Prize (The Prize).   Melbourne-based Imogen Batt-Doyle has won The Prize against hundreds of entries with her poem Larapinta (Red Dirt Dreaming) which embraced this year’s theme, ‘Standing on … Continued

Australia’s most prestigious poetry competition in The Cloncurry Poetry Prize 2024, announces winner

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A three-years-in-the-writing deeply personal ode to the vast red dirt of the Outback has won Australia’s most prestigious poetry competition – The 2024 Cloncurry Poetry Prize (The Prize).   Adelaide-born, Melbourne-based Imogen Batt-Doyle has won The Prize against hundreds of entries with her poem Larapinta (Red Dirt Dreaming) which embraced this year’s theme, ‘Standing on … Continued

These Australian cities are obsessed with reading smut – Sex expert weighs in on how the #smuttok trend can transform your sex life

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Hey, I hope you don’t mind me reaching out!   Did you know there has been a significant increase in the popularity of ‘smut’ books with the provocative fiction genre having over 934k posts under #smuttok on TikTok? A new study conducted by Lovehoney AU has analysed exactly where in Australia are residents embracing the … Continued

AUSTRALIA SHOULD BE INSPIRED BY THE 1988 OLYMPIC WOMEN’S HOCKEY TEAM

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Ladies First—The Story of Australia’s First Olympic Hockey Gold Medal by author, filmmaker, and commentator Ashley Morrison is an inspiring account of a historic Australian achievement at the Olympic Games.   Until the Seoul Olympic Games in 1988, an Australian team had not won an Olympic Gold Medal.    The women who formed the hockey team … Continued

Book shines light on history of massacres across Australia’s north

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A new book on the violent frontier expansion of Australia’s north will introduce readers to who led massacres of Aboriginal people, the names of their benefactors, and how these horrific events occurred.  Licence to Kill: massacre men of Australia’s north by Charles Darwin University (CDU) Lecturer in Colonial History Dr Robyn Smith details the massacres of Aboriginal people … Continued