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My Brother Jack
''My Brother Jack'' is a classic 1964 Australian novel by writer George Johnston. It is part of a trilogy centering on the character of David Meredith. The other books in the trilogy are '' Clean Straw for Nothing'' and '' A Cartload of Clay''. It is commonly studied for English literature subjects in Australia. Overview This semi-autobiographical novel, definable as a roman à clef, follows the narrator, David Meredith, through his childhood and adolescence in interwar Melbourne through to adulthood and his prominent career as a journalist during World War II, to his life on a Greek island in the 1950s and 60s. David's childhood and early life are influenced heavily by the destructive presence of his father, psychologically ruined by his experiences in the Great War. His father, cruel, increasingly withdrawn, is a catalyst for the escapes which both David and Jack have to make, each in their own way. The novel has a central theme using contrasts between David and his older a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is an affinity group for contributors with shared goals within the Wikimedia movement. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within Wikimedia project, sibling projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by ''Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outsi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Canberra Times
''The Canberra Times'' is a daily newspaper in Canberra, Australia, which is published by Australian Community Media. It was founded in 1926, and has changed ownership and format several times. History ''The Canberra Times'' was launched in 1926 by Thomas Shakespeare along with his oldest son Arthur Shakespeare and two younger sons Christopher and James. The newspaper's headquarters were originally located in the Civic retail precinct, in Cooyong Street and Mort Street, in blocks bought by Thomas Shakespeare in the first sale of Canberra leases in 1924. The newspaper's first issue was published on 3 September 1926. It was the second paper to be printed in the city, the first being '' The Federal Capital Pioneer''. Between September 1926 and February 1928, the newspaper was a weekly issue. The first daily issue was 28 February 1928. In June 1956, ''The Canberra Times'' converted from broadsheet to tabloid format. Arthur Shakespeare sold the paper to John Fairfax ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Lyndon
Simon Lyndon is an Australian actor and director. Early life and education Simon Lyndon was born in Lewisham, London in 1971 and migrated to Australia with his family in 1981. He grew up in Fremantle, Western Australia. Simon attended John Curtin College of the Arts in the Theatre Arts program and later graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth Perth () is the list of Australian capital cities, capital city of Western Australia. It is the list of cities in Australia by population, fourth-most-populous city in Australia, with a population of over 2.3 million within Greater Perth . The .... Career Film roles Lyndon received Australian Film Institute Award (AFI) nominations for Best Supporting Actor for the 1997 drama '' Blackrock''. He played Jimmy Loughnan in '' Chopper'' (2000) with Eric Bana, for which he won an AFI Award for Best Supporting Actor, and a Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Supporting Actor. He won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Williamson
Felix Williamson (born 29 May 1969) is an Australian actor. Early life Williamson is the stepson of playwright David Williamson. From age 13–17, he trained at the Australian Theatre for Young People in Sydney, Australia, learning the foundations of acting. Career He has had many roles in television, film and theatre and portrayed Paul Keating in the 2010 telemovie, Hawke (film), ''Hawke'' opposite Richard Roxburgh's Bob Hawke. He portrays a Commonwealth Bank executive in various advertisements for the bank, usually in the role of rebuffing advice from incompetent American advertisement consultants who display ignorance of Australian society and buffoon-like behaviour. Felix has taken part in a variety of television shows including famous to CBBC (TV channel), CBBC, ''Me and My Monsters'' playing Nick Carlson (Dad), and ''Underbelly: Razor''. Personal life Williamson lives with his wife, theatre producer Liz Fell, who together ran Naked Theatre Company from 2001 to 2005. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Thompson (actor)
John Hadley Thompson, AM (né Pain; born 31 August 1940) is an Australian actor and a major figure of Australian cinema, particularly Australian New Wave. He is best known for his role as a lead actor in several acclaimed Australian films, including such classics as '' The Club'' (1980), '' Sunday Too Far Away'' (1975), '' The Man from Snowy River'' (1982) and '' Petersen'' (1974). He won Cannes and AFI acting awards for the latter film. In 2002, he was made an honorary member of the Australian Cinematographers Society, and was the recipient of a Living Legend Award at the 2005 Inside Film Awards. Early life Born John Hadley Pain in Manly, a suburb of Sydney, Thompson was five years old when his mother Marjorie died, leaving his father Harold (a purser for Qantas seconded to the RAAF during the war) unable to care for him and his brother, David. He was sent to "LakeHouse orphanage" in Narrabeen by his aunt and subsequently adopted by the poet and ABC broadcaster Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Karvan
Claudia Karvan (born 19 May 1972) is an Australian actress and producer. As a child actor, she first appeared in the film '' Molly'' (1983) and followed with an adolescent role in ''High Tide'' (1987). She portrayed a teacher in '' The Heartbreak Kid'' (1993) – the film was spun off into a TV series, ''Heartbreak High'' (1994–1999), with her character taken over by Sarah Lambert. Karvan's roles in television series include '' The Secret Life of Us'' (2001–2005), '' Love My Way'' (2004–2007), '' Newton's Law'' (2017) and '' Halifax: Retribution'' (2020). She won Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Television Drama at the AFI Awards (later rebranded as the AACTA Awards) for her appearance in '' G.P.'' (1996). She won two similar AFI Awards for her role in ''Love My Way'' (2005 and 2007) and in 2014 for her work in '' The Time of Our Lives'' (2013–2014). As a co-producer and co-writer on ''Love My Way'', she won three further AFI Awards for Best Drama Series in 2005, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angie Milliken
Angie Milliken is an Australian actress. Early life Milliken was born and raised in the western suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia to a musical family. She played the French horn and competed in athletic sprinting events from the age of 7 through 17. She completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Sociology at the University of Queensland, before turning to acting. She was part of an alternative arts and theatre group called The Fluba Troupe. Milliken subsequently moved to Sydney to study at National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) where she completed a three year Diploma of Acting. Career Milliken first became noticed when she starred in the 1991 made-for-TV movie '' Act of Necessity'' for which she was nominated for an Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award. Throughout the 1990s, Milliken starred as Jo Moody in a series of telemovies with Robert Taylor, called '' The Feds'', and in 1999 starred in '' Paperback Hero'', as well as guest starring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William McInnes
Darryl William McInnes (born 10 September 1963) is an Australian film and television actor and writer. He is best known for his roles as Senior Constable Nick Schultz in ''Blue Heelers'', as Max Connors in '' SeaChange'', and more recently as TV boss Lindsay Cunningham in ''The Newsreader'' and Dr. Roy Penrose in '' NCIS: Sydney''. Early life and education Darryl William McInnes was born on 10 September 1963. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at the Rockhampton campus of the Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education (now Central Queensland University) in 1985. He studied drama at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and graduated in 1988. Career Television After a recurring role in '' A Country Practice'' in 1990, McInnes appeared in series such as '' Bligh'', '' Ocean Girl'', ''Good Vibrations'' and '' Snowy'' before making his name as Senior Constable Nick Schultz on ''Blue Heelers'' in 1993. McInnes appeared in the show until 1998, when he le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Cameron
Ken Cameron (born 1946) is an Australian film and television director and writer. Cameron was born in Tenterfield, New South Wales, Australia and graduated from Sydney University with BA in 1968. He has won two AACTA Awards, AFI Awards for directing. Filmography * ''Out of It'' (1977) * ''Temperament Unsuited'' (1978) - short * ''Monkey Grip (film), Monkey Grip'' (1982) * ''On the Loose (1984 film), On the Loose'' (1984) - writer only * ''Fast Talking'' (1984) * ''Crime of the Decade'' (1984) TV * ''The Umbrella Woman'' (1987) * ''Stringer'' (1988) TV series * ''The Clean Machine'' (1988) TV * ''Bangkok Hilton'' (1989) TV mini-series * ''Police Crop: The Winchester Conspiracy'' (1990) TV * ''Brides of Christ'' (1991) TV mini-series * ''Joh's Jury'' (1993) TV * ''Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (film), Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All'' (1994) TV * ''Bordertown'' (1995) TV mini-series * ''Dalva'' (1996) TV * ''Payback'' (1997) TV * ''Miracle at Midnight'' (1998) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sue Smith (writer)
Sue Smith is an Australian screenwriter and playwright. Biography She is best known for writing or co-writing Australian television productions including ''Mabo (film), Mabo'', ''Bastard Boys'', ''RAN Remote Area Nurse (TV series), RAN'', The Road from Coorain (film), ''The Road from Coorain'', ''The Leaving of Liverpool (miniseries), The Leaving of Liverpool,'' and ''Brides of Christ''. Her screenwriting for film includes ''Peaches (film), Peaches'' and co-writing ''Saving Mr. Banks''. Since 2006 she has also written for the stage, with plays including ''Hydra'', ''Machu Picchu'', ''Kryptonite'', ''The Kreutzer Sonata'' (an adaptation of The Kreutzer Sonata, the Tolstoy novella) and ''Strange Attractor'', and the libretto to the opera ''Rembrandt's Wife''. Smith received AACTA Award for Best Screenplay in Television, AACTA/AFI Awards as a screenwriter for ''RAN'' and ''Bastard Boys'' and as a co-screenwriter for ''Brides of Christ'' and ''The Leaving of Liverpool''. She recei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanie Drynan
Jeanie Drynan is an Australian film and television actress well known for her roles in the television series '' Class of '74'', as Muriel's mother in the 1994 film ''Muriel's Wedding'' and as solicitor Angela Jeffries in the cult classic television series '' Prisoner Cell Block H''. Early life Jean Julia Drynan's parents were James Joseph and Muriel Drynan. She grew up in the regional NSW towns of Lithgow and Coffs Harbour. She moved to the UK at the age of 15 with the intention of going to finishing school and instead studied acting at Edinburgh College of Speech and Drama (which was later absorbed into Queen Margaret University) in Scotland. She later trained at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Australia, graduating with a Diploma of Dramatic Art in 1961. Career Drynan started out in guest roles in numerous Australian television series including ''Hunter'', '' Skippy'', '' Riptide'', '' The Rovers'', ''Division 4'', '' The Link Men'', ''Delta'', ''Matlock P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stewart Ginn (actor)
Stewart Ginn (2 January 192120 September 1971) was an Australian radio, stage and television actor, best known as the character Nancarrow in the 1960s television comedy '' My Name's McGooley, What's Yours?''. Career Radio Stewart Ginn first became known in radio, after playing the main role in '' The Air Adventures of Hop Harrigan'' (1954), among other roles. Stage Ginn then became a stage actor, his credits including Sidney Howard's '' They Knew What They Wanted'' with Zoe Caldwell in 1953and ''His Excellency'' with Barry Humphries in 1954, the latter winning him an Erik Kuttner Award. In 1954, he appeared in productions of ''The Heiress'' with Zoe Caldwell and Garson Kanin's '' Born Yesterday'' with Zoe Caldwell and Ray Lawler. He performed in Shakespeare's ''Henry V'' at the 1964 Adelaide Festival of Arts, alongside John Bell, Dennis Olsen, Anna Volska and Max Meldrum. He also appeared in John Mortimer's ''Lunch Hour'' in 1965, Eugene O'Neill's ''A Moon for the Misbego ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
