Online teacher resources to help bring Australian stories to life.
Invite a famous Australian author into your classroom.
We’re for teachers and librarians. Welcome to Reading Australia – a ground-breaking online initiative from the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. It makes the very best of Australian literature more available for teachers and librarians in primary schools, secondary schools and universities across the country. The Copyright Agency’s ties to education are longstanding. We administer the educational statutory licence, which makes copying and sharing material easy and simple for teachers. Reading Australia presents the work of leading Australian authors, supplemented with comprehensive teaching resources linked to the Australian Curriculum along with engrossing essays, to make your job easier and provide a greater depth of understanding to your students. There are currently over 200 books listed on the site, each chosen by a selection panel from the Australian Society of Authors. We’ll keep on adding new titles and expanding the resources available to you, and we welcome your feedback and thoughts to improve and expand the site. Just head to readingaustralia.com.au and discover it for yourself.
Positive user feedback: Here’s what teachers have told us they like most about the Reading Australia website. “Well written units of work and great choices of texts.” – Lara K “I like the suggestions for lessons, and continued lessons over a whole term for a novel.” – Lynda L “It’s simple to use, has well written summations and essays, and has huge potential for the future.” – Paul F “It has easy navigation and a clear layout. The teaching resources are fantastic, as they relate directly to quality literature.” – Miranda F “The high quality teaching resources are clearly written by experienced practitioners. They offer flexibility and adaptability and are focused on developing an appropriate level of skills.” – Per H
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NOVELS Anderson, Ethel At Parramatta Anderson, Jessica Tirra Lirra by the River Astley, Thea It’s Raining in Mango Bail, Murray Eucalyptus Carey, Peter True History of the Kelly Gang
Herbert, Xavier Capricornia Hazzard, Shirley The Transit of Venus Hyland, M. J. Carry Me Down Ireland, David The Unknown Industrial Prisoner Jennings, Kate Moral Hazard Johnston, George The Far Road
Carroll, Steven The Time We Have Taken
Jolley, Elizabeth Miss Peabody’s Inheritance
Clarke, Marcus For the Term of His Natural Life
Jones, Gail Five Bells
Coetzee, J. M. Disgrace Drewe, Robert Grace Farmer, Beverley The House in the Light Flanagan, Richard The Narrow Road to the Deep North Franklin, Miles My Brilliant Career Furphy, Joseph Such is Life Garner, Helen The Children’s Bach Grenville, Kate Lilian’s Story Hall, Rodney Captivity Captive Hardy, Frank Power Without Glory
Keneally, Thomas The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith Koch, Christopher The Year of Living Dangerously de Kretser, Michelle The Lost Dog Langley, Eve The Pea-Pickers Lohrey, Amanda The Morality of Gentlemen London, Joan The Good Parents Malouf, David An Imaginary Life
Nyoongah, Mudrooroo Narogin Doctor Wooreddy’s Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World Park, Ruth The Harp in the South Prichard, Katharine Susannah Coonardoo Richardson, Henry Handel The Fortunes of Richard Mahony Scott, Kim That Deadman Dance Scott, Rosie Faith Singer Silvey, Craig Jasper Jones Stead, Christina The Man who Loved Children Stone, Louis Jonah Stow, Randolph To the Islands Temple, Peter Truth Tennant, Kylie The Battlers Tsiolkas, Christos The Slap White, Patrick Voss
McGahan, Andrew The White Earth
Winton, Tim Cloudstreet
Miller, Alex Journey to the Stone Country
Wright, Alexis Carpentaria
Maloney, Shane The Murray Whelan Trilogy
Winch, Tara June Swallow the Air
Moorhouse, Frank Grand Days
Zable, Arnold Cafe Scheherazade
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SHORT STORIES Barnard, Marjorie The Persimmon Tree and Other Stories Baynton, Barbara Bush Studies Cho, Tom Look Who’s Morphing Dovey, Ceridwen Only the Animals Drewe, Robert The Bodysurfers Garner, Helen Honour & Other People’s Children Lawson, Henry While the Billy Boils Le, Nam The Boat London, Joan The New Dark Age Malouf, David The Complete Stories Moorhouse, Frank The Americans, Baby Turner Hospital, Janette Collected Stories
DRAMA Bovell, Andrew Speaking in Tongues Brand, Mona Here Under Heaven Chi, Jimmy Bran Nue Dae
Davis, Jack No Sugar
Smith, Sue Bastard Boys
De Groen, Alma The Rivers of China
Williamson, David The Removalists
Dickins, Barry Remember Ronald Ryan Boddy, Michael and Ellis, Robert The Legend of King O’Malley; Or, Never Say Die Until a Dead Horse Kicks You Enright, Nick Blackrock Enoch, Wesley and Mailman, Deborah The 7 Stages of Grieving Esson, Louis The Time Is Not Yet Ripe
POETRY Adamson, Robert The Golden Bird Brennan, C. J. Poems [1913] Cataldi, Lee Race Against Time Dawe, Bruce Sometimes Gladness Dobson, Rosemary Collected Poems
Frankland, Richard Conversations with the Dead
Dransfield, Michael Collected Poems
Gow, Michael Away
Fogarty, Lionel Dha’lan Djani Mitti: Collected Poems
Goldsworthy, Peter and Mills, Richard Batavia (opera) Hewett, Dorothy The Chapel Perilous Hibberd, Jack Dimboola Lawler, Ray Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Nowra, Louis Radiance Prichard, Katharine Susannah Brumby Innes Rayson, Hannie Hotel Sorrento
Forbes, John Collected Poems, 1970-1998 Gilbert, Kevin People Are Legends Gilmore, Mary edited by Strauss, Jennifer The Collected Verse of Mary Gilmore Harpur, Charles edited by Perkins, Elizabeth M. The Poetical Works of Charles Harpur Harry, J. S. Selected Poems
Romeril, John The Floating World
Harwood, Gwen Collected Poems 1943-1995
Seymour, Alan The One Day of the Year
Hewett, Dorothy Halfway up the Mountain
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Hope, A. D. Selected Poetry and Prose Jones, Jill Broken/Open Kendall, Henry Selected Poems of Henry Kendall Maiden, Jennifer Intimate Geography: Selected Poems 1991-2010 Murray, Les Collected Poems Neilson, John Shaw edited by Gray, Robert Selected Poems Noonuccal, Oodgeroo My People: A Kath Walker Collection Porter, Dorothy The Monkey’s Mask Ryan, Gig New and Selected Poems Shapcott, Thomas Selected Poems: Thomas Shapcott Skovron, Alex The Man and the Map Slessor, Kenneth Selected Poems Tranter, John Urban Myths: 210 Poems Webb, Francis Collected Poems Wright, Judith Collected Poems, 1942-1985 Zwicky, Fay Poems 1970-1992
ANTHOLOGY
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Edited by Stewart, Douglas and Keesing, Nancy Australian Bush Ballads
Edited by Scott-Mitchell, Clare and Griffith, Kathlyn 100 Australian Poems for Children
Edited by Turner, Ian; Factor, June and Lowenstien, Wendy Cinderella Dressed in Yella
Abdulla, Ian As I Grew Older
Lysenko, Myron et al. Live Sentences
Allen, Pamela Who Sank the Boat?
Edited by Jose, Nicholas Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature
Baillie, Allan Little Brother
Edited by Heiss, Anita and Minter, Peter Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature Edited by Leonard, John The Puncher and Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry Edited by Harrison, Jennifer, and Waterhouse, Kate Motherlode: Australian Women’s Poetry, 1986-2008 Edited by Jennings, Kate Mother I’m Rooted: An Anthology of Australian Women Poets Edited by Greenwood, Kerry On Murder: True Crime Writing in Australia Edited by Farrell, Michael, and Jones, Jill Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets Edited by Modjeska, Drusilla The Best Australian Essays 2007
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Baker, Jeannie Mirror Baker, Jeannie Where the Forest Meets the Sea Carmody, Isobelle The Gathering Crew, Gary Strange Objects Dubosarsky, Ursula The Red Shoe French, Jackie and Whatley, Bruce Flood Germein, Katrina and Bancroft, Bronwyn Big Rain Coming Gleeson, Libby and Blackwood, Freya Amy and Louis Graham, Bob Crusher is Coming Graham, Bob How to Heal a Broken Wing Greene, Gracie; Tramacchi, Joe and Gill, Lucille Tjarany Roughtail
Gleeson, Libby and Greder, Armin The Great Bear Hartnett, Sonya and Masciullo, Lucia Come Down, Cat! Hartnett, Sonya The Silver Donkey Hobbs, Leigh The Big Book of Old Tom Kelleher, Victor Taronga King, Stephen Michael Milli, Jack and the Dancing Cat Lalara, Rhoda Dugururru and Alfred Yirruwa Yirrilikienuma-langwa/ When We Go Walkabout Lestor, Alison Are We There Yet? McDonald, Meme and Pryor, Boori Monty My Girragundji Millard, Glenda and Cool, Rebecca Isabella’s Garden Morimoto, Junko The Two Bullies Noonuccal, Oodgeroo and Bancroft, Bronwyn Stradbroke Dreamtime Oliver, Narelle Don’t Let a Spoonbill in the Kitchen! Papunya School Papunya School Book of Country and History Park, Ruth Playing Beatie Bow Paterson, A. B. and Niland, Deborah and Kilmeny Mulga Bill’s Bicycle
Pedley, Ethel C. Dot and the Kangaroo Roughsey, Dick [Goobalathaldin] The Rainbow Serpent Rubinstein, Gillian Beyond the Labyrinth
Inglis, K. S. This is the ABC: The Australian Broadcasting Commission 1932-1983 Karskens, Grace The Colony: A History of Early Sydney
Southall, Ivan Ash Road
Keneally, Thomas Australians: Origins to Eureka
Thiele, Colin Storm Boy
Reynolds, Henry The Other Side of the Frontier: Aboriginal Resistance to the European Invasion of Australia
Turner, Ethel Seven Little Australians Utemorrah, Daisy and Torres, Pat Do Not Go Around the Edges
Rodriguez, Judith The Hanging of Minnie Thwaites
Wagner, Jenny and Brooks, Ron The Bunyip of Berkeley’s Creek
Rolls, Eric A Million Wild Acres
Wheatley, Nadia Five Times Dizzy
Souter, Gavin A Peculiar People Tench, Watkin A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
Wheatley, Nadia and Rawlins, Donna My Place Wild, Margaret and Brooks, Ron Fox Wild, Margaret and Blackwood, Freya The Treasure Box Wrightson, Patricia I Own the Racecourse
NARRATIVE/HISTORY Blainey, Geoffrey The Tyranny of Distance Clendinnen, Inga Dancing With Strangers Funder, Anna Stasiland Garner, Helen The House of Grief
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Unaipon, David Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines Ward, Russell The Australian Legend
OPINION
Bryson, John Evil Angels Flannery, Tim Here on Earth Heiss, Anita Dhuuluu-yala (To Talk Straight) Hooper, Chloe The Tall Man Masters, Chris Jonestown Watson, Don Death Sentence
MEMOIR
Blain, Georgia Births Deaths Marriages: True Tales
BIOGRAPHY Bungey, Darleen Arthur Boyd: A Life
Davidson, Robyn Tracks
Day, David John Curtin: A Life
Dessaix, Robert A Mother’s Disgrace
Hill, Barry Broken Song: T. G. H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession
Deveson, Anne Tell Me I’m Here Facey, A. B. A Fortunate Life Flick, Isabel and Goodall, Heather Isabel Flick Gaita, Raimond Romulus, My Father James, Clive Unreliable Memoirs Roughsey, Dick [Goobalathaldin] Moon and Rainbow: The Autobiography of an Aboriginal Hanrahan, Barbara The Scent of Eucalyptus Huggins, Rita and Huggins, Jackie Auntie Rita
Marr, David Barwick Rowley, Hazel Christina Stead: A Biography
ESSAY Altman, Dennis Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation Brett, Judith Robert Menzies’ Forgotten People
Cathcart, Michael Water Dreamers: The Remarkable History of Our Dry Continent Greenwood, Mark and Lessac, Frane Ned Kelly and the Green Sash Kefala, Antigone Sydney Journals: Reflections 1970-2000 Kelly, Ned The Jerilderie Letter
YOUNG ADULT Marchetta, Melina Looking For Alibrandi Marsden, John Tomorrow When the War Began Morgan, Sally My Place
Clift, Charmian Selected Essays
Winton, Tim Blueback
Greer, Germaine The Female Eunuch
GRAPHIC NOVELS
Langford, Ruby Ginibi Don’t Take Your Love To Town
Horne, Donald The Lucky Country
Isaacs, Jennifer and Marika, Wandjuk Wandjuk Marika: Life Story
Modjeska, Drusilla Stravinsky’s Lunch
Greenberg, Nicki The Great Gatsby
Pilkington, Doris Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
MISCELLANEOUS
Tan, Shaun The Arrival
Sayer, Mandy Velocity Sherborne, Craig Hoi Polloi
Brooks, Geraldine Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
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Grant, Pat Blue
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