Growing up in Australia / Immigrants' writings Sexual minorities People with disabilities Youth Aboriginal Australians Coming of age Multiculturalism Anthologies.
Growing up in Australia /
with an introduction by Alice Pung.
- 279 pages ; 21 cm.
- Growing up series. .
- Growing up. .
Talking to my country / Reckoning / Piano lessons / Tourism / The game is to hide / Her mother's daughter / Easter, 1969 / Wei-Lei and me / Red dust, jet streams and Chanel No. 5 / Land's edge / Hippotherapy / Boobs, rags and Judy Blume / Nobody puts baby spice in a corner / The wall of shame / The little town on the railway track / Sam / Perfect Chinese children / Be good, little migrants / Question marks and a theory of vision / When words collide, words fail / I was born this way / Power / Four stages / A portait of the artist as a young larrikin -- / St Louis / Don't touch alcohol / Coming in / Selected epistles / Bully for them / Dear Australia, I love you but... / The eleventh house / First, Second, Third, Fourth / Stan Grant -- Magda Szubanski -- Anna Goldsworthy -- Benjamin Law -- Rick Morton -- Nyadol Nyuon -- Katie Bryan -- Aditi Gouvernel -- Gayle Kennedy -- Tim Winton -- Alistair Baldwin -- Phoebe Hart -- Miranda Tapsell -- Natalie Macken -- Kerry Reed-Gilbert -- Faustina Agolley -- Vanessa Woods -- Uyen Loewald -- Andy Jackson -- Thinesh Thillainadarajah -- Carly Findlay -- Hope Mathumbu -- Rafeif Ismail -- Lech Blaine -- Oliver Reeson -- Sara El Sayed -- Joo-Inn Chew -- Olivia Muscat -- Christos Tsiolkas, as told to Fiona Scott-Norman -- Candy Bowers -- Sam Drummond -- Tara June Winch.
Featuring pieces from Growing Up Asian, Growing Up Aboriginal, Growing Up African, Growing Up Queer and Growing Up Disabled in Australia, this book captures the diversity of our nation in moving and revelatory ways. Growing Up in Australia also features gems from essential Australian memoirs such as Rick Morton’s 100 Years of Dirt and Magda Szubanski’s Reckoning. Contributors include Tim Winton, Benjamin Law, Anna Goldsworthy, Nyadol Nyuon, Tara June Winch, Miranda Tapsell, Carly Findlay and many more.
9781760643188
Immigrants' writings--Australia.
Sexual minorities--Australia--Anecdotes.
People with disabilities--Australia--Anecdotes.
Youth--Australia--Anecdotes.
Aboriginal Australians--Anecdotes.
Coming of age--Australia--Anecdotes.
Multiculturalism--Australia.
Anthologies.
Australia--Social life and customs--20th century.
Australia--Social life and customs--21st century.
Australia--Social conditions.
Australia--Race relations.
A820.8 306.0994
Talking to my country / Reckoning / Piano lessons / Tourism / The game is to hide / Her mother's daughter / Easter, 1969 / Wei-Lei and me / Red dust, jet streams and Chanel No. 5 / Land's edge / Hippotherapy / Boobs, rags and Judy Blume / Nobody puts baby spice in a corner / The wall of shame / The little town on the railway track / Sam / Perfect Chinese children / Be good, little migrants / Question marks and a theory of vision / When words collide, words fail / I was born this way / Power / Four stages / A portait of the artist as a young larrikin -- / St Louis / Don't touch alcohol / Coming in / Selected epistles / Bully for them / Dear Australia, I love you but... / The eleventh house / First, Second, Third, Fourth / Stan Grant -- Magda Szubanski -- Anna Goldsworthy -- Benjamin Law -- Rick Morton -- Nyadol Nyuon -- Katie Bryan -- Aditi Gouvernel -- Gayle Kennedy -- Tim Winton -- Alistair Baldwin -- Phoebe Hart -- Miranda Tapsell -- Natalie Macken -- Kerry Reed-Gilbert -- Faustina Agolley -- Vanessa Woods -- Uyen Loewald -- Andy Jackson -- Thinesh Thillainadarajah -- Carly Findlay -- Hope Mathumbu -- Rafeif Ismail -- Lech Blaine -- Oliver Reeson -- Sara El Sayed -- Joo-Inn Chew -- Olivia Muscat -- Christos Tsiolkas, as told to Fiona Scott-Norman -- Candy Bowers -- Sam Drummond -- Tara June Winch.
Featuring pieces from Growing Up Asian, Growing Up Aboriginal, Growing Up African, Growing Up Queer and Growing Up Disabled in Australia, this book captures the diversity of our nation in moving and revelatory ways. Growing Up in Australia also features gems from essential Australian memoirs such as Rick Morton’s 100 Years of Dirt and Magda Szubanski’s Reckoning. Contributors include Tim Winton, Benjamin Law, Anna Goldsworthy, Nyadol Nyuon, Tara June Winch, Miranda Tapsell, Carly Findlay and many more.
9781760643188
Immigrants' writings--Australia.
Sexual minorities--Australia--Anecdotes.
People with disabilities--Australia--Anecdotes.
Youth--Australia--Anecdotes.
Aboriginal Australians--Anecdotes.
Coming of age--Australia--Anecdotes.
Multiculturalism--Australia.
Anthologies.
Australia--Social life and customs--20th century.
Australia--Social life and customs--21st century.
Australia--Social conditions.
Australia--Race relations.
A820.8 306.0994