Bruce Beresford is an Australian film and stage director, screenwriter, and producer who specialises in small-budget character-driven dramas. After studying in Sydney, Beresford went to London, where he helped produce documentaries for the British Film Institute (1966–71). Back in Australia, he directed three films before his widely acclaimed Breaker Morant (1980), which helped establish the […]

Anna Clark is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney. With Stuart Macintyre, she wrote the History Wars in 2003, which was awarded the NSW Premier’s Prize for Australian History and the Queensland Premier’s Prize for Best Literary or Media Work Advancing Public […]

Michael Ackland was educated at Melbourne Grammar School, Monash University, Cologne University and the Australian National University, and taught for many years at Monash University. He has also taught and lectured widely in Europe and North America. He is fluent in French and German. His recent temporary positions included Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, and […]

Sophie Cunningham is the author of five books, City of Trees, Geography, Bird, Melbourne, and Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy. She is a former publisher and editor, was a co-founder of the Stella Prize and is now an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University’s Non/fiction Lab. In 2019 Sophie Cunningham was made a Member of […]