United Way Australia has expressed deep condolences following the passing of country music legend and philanthropist Dolly Parton, while noting the important impact of her Imagination Library program. Groundbreaking global research reveals the program – which delivers one book per month to children from birth to five years – is helping reshape early childhood literacy.…
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Rabobank, George the Farmer and Book Week
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Rabobank’s Rabo Community Fund, in collaboration with agricultural education and storytelling brand ‘George the Farmer’, has awarded book packs – totalling 1,400 books – to schools and early learning centres across the country to mark this year’s Book Week (Children’s Book Week 2026 runs from Saturday, August 22 to Friday, August 28, 2026). The specialist…
2026 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards Shortlist Announced
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Writing Australia has revealed the shortlist for the 2026 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, the richest literary prize in the nation. The awards celebrate the exceptional talents of emerging and established Australian writers, illustrators, poets, and historians. The Prime Minister’s Literary Awards acknowledge the contribution of Australian literature to the nation’s cultural and intellectual life. …
Natalie Scott releases new historical fiction novel ‘The Rim of the Sky’ at age 98
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An Australian author who has just celebrated her 98th birthday is proving that stories have no age limit with the release of her latest novel, The Rim of the Sky, a sweeping work of historical fiction set against the turbulence of nineteenth-century Russia. Natalie Scott’s The Rim of the Sky follows young noblewoman Elizaveta Georgievna…
Producer of Fat Pizza and Cedar Boys Releases Book ‘YES YES YES: The Playbook of Persuasion’
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You have seen this before. Two people say the same thing in a meeting. One lands. One does not. It is not intelligence. It is timing. Influence inside modern organisations is shifting. In environments shaped by information overload, hybrid work, declining institutional trust and increasingly sceptical stakeholders, traditional models built on authority and pressure are…
Rabobank and George the Farmer Team up for Fifth Year
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Rabobank’s Rabo Community Fund has teamed up with the ‘edu-tainment’ brand ‘George the Farmer’ – for its fifth year – to celebrate Children’s Book Week. Their collaboration is designed to teach children about where their food and fibre comes from in a fun and engaging way during Book Week, which this year takes place from…
Sue Woolfe returns with The Girl Who Climbed on Rooves
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Acclaimed Australian author Sue Woolfe returns after eight years with a luminous new novel, The Girl Who Climbed on Rooves, a deeply moving exploration of mothers and daughters, buried trauma, and the mysterious ways art emerges from lived experience. In this novel an Australian composer, loved for the joy of her music, at the height…
Bunbury Elders Release children’s book Kala
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Kala is a beautiful new children’s book written and illustrated by eight members from Birdiya Waangkiny Elders Group in Bunbury, Western Australia. The authors and illustrators include Charmaine Councillor, Roslyn Khan, Gloria Dann, Phyllis Bennell, Teryle Collard, Sandra Nebro, Joanne Ugle and Marjorie Ugle. ublished by the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF), this book celebrates Noongar…
National Association of Black Bookstores Championing Black Literary Culture
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Inspired by the legacy of the country’s first Black-owned bookstores and the remarkable individuals behind them, the official launch of the National Association of Black Bookstores (NAB2) recently took place.
Holiday Reading For Kids
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There’s nothing better than relaxing with a good book over summer, but for young children it can also be a sneaky way of maintaining the literacy gains they made at school over the past 12 months. NSW Department of Education literacy expert Jade Arnold said reading during the summer break was a great way to…