Banner image shows, on a bed of stars, the covers for Emily Rodda's Deltora Quest (Japanese above, English below); May Gibb's Snugglepot and Cuddlepie (English above, Japanese below), and A. Bertram Chandler's The Road to the Rim / The Hard Way Up (Japanese above, English below). Text reads: Australian Fantasy Fiction & Japan 日本語に翻訳されたオーストラリアのファンタジー小説

The dataset includes all the works of Australian fantasy fiction that the project team could identify that have already been translated into Japanese. Banner image shows, from left to right, the book covers for Jessica Townsend's Wundersmith, in both the English and Japanese editions; Sergio Bambaren's The Dolphin: Story of a Dreamer, in both the English and Japanese editions; and Paul Kidd's White Plume Mountain, in both the English and Japanese editions. 作成されたデータセットは、オーストラリアの ファンタジー小説の内、すでに日本語に 翻訳されている作品が全て含まれています。

Project Leaders: Dr Lucy Fraser Sonia Broad Project Team: Samuel Round Elara Crook Christiana Palella Student Researchers: Dana Durre Andrew Millar Translator Hiroko Tan | 陳 弘子 Generously supported by: Campbell Bequest at The University of Queensland UQ Summer Research Programme

AustLit is celebrating 25 years in 2026 For this momentous anniversary, we have a year’s worth of celebrations planned, from in-person and online events to project highlights, video guides, and information trails. Celebrate with us by following, sharing our content and using #AustLit25 to share your Australian literature discoveries. Visit our website for more details! 25 years of discovering Australian stories

Today's highlighted research project is Australian Fantasy Fiction and Japan, a really fun collection of translations of Aust. fantasy fiction into Japanese, from Mary Poppins onwards. (Slides by Monica Clayton.)
Explore more at:
www.austlit.edu.au/australianfa...
#AustLit25 #readaustralianfantasy

On a greenish-grey background, books fly about: they have blue and yellow and orange covers. Over them is emblazoned the logo A25 and the sentence 'Celebrating 25 Years'.

AustLit's latest newsletter went out yesterday, and what's in it?!
Celebrations for #AustLit25
Welcome to our new BlackWords Co-ordinator!
An interview with our senior indexer, who has reached 20 years with AustLit!
And much more.
Read below, or subscribe for more!
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On a blue background, text reads: AustLit's 25th Anniversary special: Research Project 3 of 25. Irishness in Australian Literature. Continue to explore the project. Across the middle of the page is a banner, in which the green Irish landscape is spliced with the red Australian outback, with an Irish harp imposed over the top.

On a blue background, text reads: Close Relations: Irishness in Australian Literature Project start: 2023. A grey text box. Text reads: Close Relations aims to transform our understanding of Australian literature by combining existing traditional literary methods, bibliographical approaches and digital/computational methods to investigate the complexities of Irishness in its production, circulation and reception. A banner image shows the covers of The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, Fanatic Heart, True History of the Kelly Gang, The Harp in the South, The Rides, and Such is Life. Below that, text reads: By exploring the production and reception of Irishness in Australian literature, ‘Close Relations’ will offer a new account of the contested and fissile nature of white Australian identity in relation to class, gender, race and religion.

On a grey text box, text reads: Close Relations: Irishness in Australian Literature is still under development and is projected for completion in 2027 — we welcome feedback on our definitions, our dataset and our methodologies. Explore the project on AustLit and please contact us if you would like to assist us in understanding what Irishness is, how it’s defined, how it manifests and how it is mobilised in the Australian literary field. A Celtic knot, an Irish harp, and a shamrock float above and apparently rise out of a green book. Below that, text reads: AustLit welcomes contributions from scholars and specialists in the area in order to build an authoritative and detailed resource for research and general interest.

On a pale blue background, text reads: AustLit is celebrating 25 years in 2026 For this momentous anniversary, we have a year’s worth of celebrations planned, from in-person and online events to project highlights, video guides, and information trails. Celebrate with us by following, sharing our content and using #AustLit25 to share your Australian literature discoveries. Visit our website for more details! 25 years of discovering Australian stories

For St Patrick's Day, we're highlighting the ARC-funded Close Relations: Irishness in Australian Literature, led by Prof. Ronan McDonald, Prof. Kath Bode, and Assoc. Prof. Maggie Nolan. View the tiles (by Monica Clayton) or explore the project pages for more!
www.austlit.edu.au/irishness
#AustLit25

A red background, with a black banner and, on top of it, a red map of the world: three speech bubbles show vibrant images of a beach, a collage street scene, and a pagoda on top of a cloud-covered skyscraper. Text reads: AustLit's 25th anniversary special: Information trail 5 of 25. Migrant Voices. Continue to explore the trail

A red background, with black text: Ten Pound Pom. Autobiography, picture book. Carole Wilkinson - author, Liz Aneli - illustrator (2017). A grey text box. Text readds: I don’t want to go to Australia. I have just started grammar school. My best friend Sally goes there too. But it looks like there could be another war and Dad has convinced Mum to go. Because we’re migrants, the voyage is costing Mum and Dad only £10 each. My brother Brian and I are travelling free. It’s a long way to Australia. What if we never come back to England? 'In the 1950s and 60s Australia welcomed thousands of British immigrants as part of the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme. Ten Pound Pom is the true story of award-winning author Carole Wilkinson’s immigration to Australia.' In the bottom right hand corner of the text box is the book cover, showing a street scene opening up to a large passenger ship with, in the foreground, a family huddling under a black umbrella.

A red background: black text reads 'Donkeys Can't Fly on Planes: Stories of Survival from South Sudanese Children Living in Australia. Anthology, Autobiography, Picture book. A grey text box: text reads In Donkey's Can't Fly on Planes twenty-two refugee children from South Sudan, who now live in Australia, share their personal survival stories. In short, honest texts that are accompanied by mixed-media collage illustrations, the children talk about life in Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, and other African countries. They share experiences of starvation and war, of family separation and death, but they also describe African customs and traditions, everyday life and happy memories.' In the top right-hand corner is the cover of the book, showing a brown donkey against green hills.

A red background. Black text reads, Ghost Cities. Ficti9on, Fantasy Novel. Siang Lu (2024). A grey text box. Text reads: 'Inspired by the vacant, uninhabited megacities of China, Ghost Cities follows multiple narratives, including one in which a young man named Xiang is fired from his job as a translator at Sydney's Chinese Consulate after it is discovered he doesn't speak a word of Chinese and has been relying entirely on Google Translate for his work. How is his relocation to one such ghost city connected to a parallel odyssey in which an ancient Emperor creates a thousand doubles of Himself? Or where a horny mountain gains sentience? Where a chess-playing automaton hides a deadly secret? Or a tale in which every book in the known Empire is destroyed - then recreated, page by page and book by book - all in the name of love and art?' In the top right-hand corner is the cover of the book, showing a grey-toned fantastical cityscape rising vertically up the cover.

The latest 25 for 25 trail is live and, to mark Harmony Week, it's on the theme of migrant voices. Compiled by AustLit intern and CSU student Renee Mirabato, with gorgeous slides by Monica Clayton. As always, check out www.austlit.edu.au/25th-anniver... for the full trail!
#AustLit25 #diversity

AustLit’s 25th Anniversary special: Research Project 2 OF 25: [Image shows a black stage with five curved rows of black seats in front of it: the image is designed as an icon, not as a representative or illustrative image. On the stage are three images from set design associated with the project. This first shows a man in a grey suit, on the left, kissing the hand of a woman in a white tutu-style skirt; the second shows a grey, two-storey street scene; the third shows a vaguely Greek-looking scene, with pillars and cyprus trees.] AUSTRALIAN DRAMA ARCHIVE Continue to explore the project!

About the Australian Drama Archive project Project start: 2016 The Australian Drama Archive Project is a digitisation project publishing plays and research relating to writers working in the period before the 1960s. Collaborators at The University of Queensland and the University of New England set out to digitise and research a collection of Australian plays from the twentieth century up to the 1960s and bring them to life again through publication, production, and new research.

The Australian Drama Archive’s dataset includes but is not limited to the following: > Biographical information — playwrights and writers working in the period before the 1960s. > Play Information — synopsis, publication details, production details and historical notes. > Research outcomes > Digitised transcripts of plays researched in the project. [Banner image shows a series of pages from the plays included in the project: the pages are text-heavy and the text is illegible at this size.] Selected plays were scanned and in most cases run through an optical character recognition (OCR) process which generated a plain text file that was subsequently corrected. In some cases the OCR text was so bad, due to the poor quality of the original manuscript, we determined it was best to manually transcribe the text.

AustLit is celebrating 25 years in 2026 For this momentous anniversary, we have a year’s worth of celebrations planned, from in-person and online events to project highlights, video guides, and information trails. Celebrate with us by following, sharing our content and using #AustLit25 to share your Australian literature discoveries. Visit our website for more details! 25 years of discovering Australian stories

Today's highlight is the Australian Drama Archive, a full-text collection of pre-1960s plays, from the claustrophobic horror of The Flail of God to the absurdity of The Ladder Game.
Explore the project in full at:
www.austlit.edu.au/australiandr...
#AustLit25
Beautiful slides by Monica Clayton!

If you saw our celebration of ScreenLit, you might be curious about how to explore AustLit for film or television. This brief video (captions: no sound) will walk you through some of those search options!

#AustLit25

Text reads: AustLit's 25th anniversary special: Research Project 1 of 25. In the centre of the page, two rows of stylised film, showing title screens from the following films and TV series: top row, left to right, Muriel's Wedding, The Sapphires, Heartbreak High (new series); bottom row, left to right, Ali's Wedding, Puberty Blues (new series), Red Dog. Text below reads: ScreenLit. Continue to explore the project!

On a blue background, a grey text box. Text above the box reads: About ScreenLit Project start: 2009 In the text box, text reads: ScreenLit provides information-rich records about Australian cinema productions (including short and feature films, documentaries, and animated films) and television programs (including made-for-TV movies, series, mini-series, serials and documentaries). A row of three images show the posters for Ned Kelly (Heath Ledger version), Bran Nue Day, and The Babadook. Below that, text reads: Chronologically, the resource begins with the emergence of Australian film production in the first decades of the twentieth century.

On a blue background, a grey text box. Text reads: ScreenLit will continue to evolve over time and is continually being updated. Explore the ScreenLit project on AustLit and please contact us if you would like to assist us in expanding information about Australian film, television and other audio-visual storytelling methods. In the middle, a banner of images shows the posters for the films and TV series Unsound, Moulin Rouge, Follow the Rabbit-proof Fence, Boy Swallows Universe, and The Dry. Below that, text reads: AustLit welcomes contributions from scholars and specialists in the area in order to build an authoritative and detailed resource for research and general interest.

On a blue background, text reads: AustLit is celebrating 25 years in 2026 For this momentous anniversary, we have a year’s worth of celebrations planned, from in-person and online events to project highlights, video guides, and information trails. Celebrate with us by following, sharing our content and using #AustLit25 to share your Australian literature discoveries. Visit our website for more details! 25 years of discovering Australian stories

Today, we're highlighting one of our bigger research datasets: ScreenLit! This is AustLit's collection of bibliographical records on film and television from the earliest days.
Find out more at www.austlit.edu.au/screenlit
Beautiful slides by Monica Clayton.
#AustLit25

Multi-coloured calendar setting out the events, projects, and other social media posts for AustLit's 25th birthday.

Updated calendar for the #AustLit25 celebrations: check out what is coming up next, including trails on adaptations and multicultural writing, as well as projects on screen, drama, and Irishness. More details on the anniversary site!
www.austlit.edu.au/25th-anniver...

AustLit’s 25th Anniversary special: INFORMATION TRAIL 2 OF 25: Black strip of stylised film, showing, from left-to-right, Mel Gibson in Mad Max, a scene from Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, and a shot from Satellite Boy. AUSTRALIAN FILMS Continue to explore the trail!

Text reads: Satellite Boy Adventure/Family Catriona McKenzie (2012) In a grey text box, text reads: Set in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, Satellite Boy tells the story of Pete who lives in an abandoned drive-in cinema with his grandfather Jagamarra, whom Pete calls Jubbi. Jagamarra is determined to pass on knowledge and culture to his grandson, but Pete is a reluctant learner. When the cinema is purchased by a mining company and slated for demolition, Pete and his best friend Kalmain set off on a journey to save their home. When the two get lost in the remote country of the Bungle Bungles, their survival depends on the lessons Pete’s grandfather has taught him. In the top left-hand corner of the text box is the poster for Satellite Boy, showing a young Indigenous boy standing next to a burning chair, with a derelict drive-in movie screen behind him against the sunset.

Text reads: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1984) Musical/Drama/Comedy Stephan Elliot (1984) In a grey text box, text reads: 'Tick' Belrose, a Sydney drag queen, accepts his ex-wife's invitation to bring his stage show to the outback. Felicia, a younger drag queen, and the grieving Bernadette. They set out for Alice Springs in a second-hand bus that they name 'Priscilla, Queen of the Desert'. The journey takes them to Broken Hill, Coober Pedy and are rescued by an open-minded mechanic when Priscilla breaks down in the desert. In Alice Springs, Tick meets the young son he barely knows and the three climb Kings Canyon together in full drag, before making their debut at the Alice Springs casino. In the top right-hand corner of the text box is the theatrical poster for Priscilla, showing a bus in a desert with an elaborately costumed drag queen riding on the roof, and three costumed drag queens at the bottom front.

Text reads: Mad Max Action/Sci-fi James McCausland & George Miller (1979). Against a grey text box, text reads: In a post-apocalyptic Australia, law and order has begun to break down due to energy shortages, despite the efforts of Main Force Patrol (MFP) officers like Max Rockatansky. After Rockatansky encounters Toecutter's motorcycle gang, who are running runshod over isolated communities, he grows disillusioned with his role in the MFP. At first convinced by his superior officer not to resign, he is driven into a state of cold-blooded revenge when Toecutter's gang murder his wife and young son. In the top right-hand side of the text box is the theatrical poster for Mad Max, showing a leather clad and helmeted man, holding a gun, standing in front of a car. The background is on fire.

Our next information trail for #AustLit25 is live, and to celebrate the upcoming #AACTAs, it's on Australian film. Beautifully compiled by Shala Schlicht and with gorgeous slides by Monica Clayton. Don't forget to check the calendar for future trails!
Explore here: www.austlit.edu.au/25th-anniver...

Now you're exploring information trails, are you curious about how we create them? One way is to search the subject-concept thesaurus for works on the same theme. This pithy video (captions: no audio) will walk you through that process. Stay tuned for more video guides!
#AustLit25 #databases

A turquoise background with a series of book titles in a band across it. Above the band sits an icon of a laptop with four books resting on it, spines facing outwards. The front back has the AustLit logo on the cover. Test reads: AustLit's 25th Anniversary Special. For teachers: AECCP. AustLit Environments for Cross-curriculum Priorities. Continue to explore the project! #AustLit25

On a turquoise background, a grey text box. Text reads: AustLit Environments for Cross-Curriculum Priorities is a space designed to support learning and teaching within the Australian Curriculum (v.9) cross-curriculum priorities. These Learning Environments provide rich content and resources for teachers and librarians to help them to identify texts relevant to the three cross-curriculum priorities. The Learning Environments are also designed to support digital literacy development for students as database users. Below the text box, three icons, each showing a grey laptop with four books sitting on the keyboard. The left-hand book has a mustard cover with the BlackWords logo. The middle book has a blue cover with an icon of a globe. The right-hand book has a green cover with an icon of two hands cupping a plant shoot.

On a turquoise background, a grey text box. Text reads: Project Team: A/Prof Maggie Nolan, Dr Amy Schoonens, Dr Catriona Mills, and Bianca Millroy. With contributions from... Angelene Karas, Jake Davidson, Hannah Rae, Hannah Park, Andrew Millar, Aeryn Brown, Aster Ross, and Emily Huang. Generously supported by the auDa Foundation, these Learning Environments are freely available across Australia. Explore. Embed. Discover Australian stories. Two logos are included: on the left, the auDa Foundation, and on the right, the logo for AustLit's 25th anniversary.

On a turquoise background, the following text: AustLit is celebrating 25 years in 2026 For this momentous anniversary, we have a year’s worth of celebrations planned, from in-person and online events to project highlights, video guides, and information trails. Celebrate with us by following, sharing our content and using #AustLit25 to share your Australian literature discoveries. Visit our website for more details! 25 years of discovering Australian stories

To celebrate back-to-school week, we're highlighting our AustLit Environments for Cross-Curriculum Priorities. Check them out if you're in the market to map Australian works onto the National Curriculum and encourage digital literacy!
www.austlit.edu.au/aeccp
#discoverAustralianstories #AustLit25

Red background with black text. Text reads: AustLit's 25th Anniversary special: INFORMATION TRAIL 1 OF 25: JANUARY 26. Continue to explore the trail. Across the middle of the screen, three images are placed in a black frame: an older white Australian man holding a younger, weeping Chinese woman against a backdrop of shipping containers; an older Aboriginal woman, with long white hair, a green tunic, and pink pants, embraces a young Aboriginal girl as they look into the sunrise; a younger woman dressed apparently only in an over-sized white T-shirt, talks to an older man wearing an unbuttoned Hawaiian shirt.

Red background, with a grey text box. Text reads: 'Day Break is the story of a family making their way back to Country on January 26. We see the strength they draw from being together, and from sharing stories as they move through a shifting landscape. 'The story refocuses the narratives around ‘Australia Day’ on Indigenous survival and resistance, and in doing so honours the past while looking to the future. Confronting yet truthful, painful yet full of hope, Day Break is a crucial story that will open up a conversation on truth-telling for the next generation.' (Courtesy of publisher). The cover of picture book Day Break is in the top left-hand corner of the text box. It shows an older Aboriginal woman, with long white hair, a green tunic, and pink pants, embracing a young Aboriginal girl as they look into the sunrise.

A red background with a grey text box. Text reads: As a sweltering Australia Day dawns over Brisbane, three seemingly unconnected figures – a farmer, an Indigenous policewoman and an illegal Chinese immigrant – are thrown together by chance and misfortune. As their stories arc and connect, they'll find themselves drawn into a web of racism, violence and simmering resentment that will leave none of them unscathed, and challenge everything they thought they knew about the country they call home.' (Courtesy of publisher). The poster for the film is in the top left-hand corner. It shows an older white Australian man holding a younger, weeping Chinese woman against a backdrop of shipping containers.

A red background with a grey text box. Text reads: 'Living aboard neighbouring boats in a crowded marina, Col, Baxter and Jackie are middle-aged fringe-dwellers. Each of them nurses secret wounds and anxieties, and although their vessels are ocean-going craft, none seems likely to ever leave the safe confines of the harbour. They are hiding from the world behind and beyond. 'On Australia Day, drunk, lost and angry, a young English backpacker called Dee turns up on the jetty and her arrival unleashes chaos. Suddenly no secret is safe, nothing is fixed. As the nation celebrates, the cosy fantasy of safety from the past is blown open in a funny, bitter torrent of loose talk.' (Courtesy of publisher). An image from a production of the play is shown in the top left-hand corner. It shows a younger woman dressed apparently only in an over-sized white T-shirt, talking to an older man wearing an unbuttoned Hawaiian shirt.

The first of our #AustLit25 trails went live yesterday, and we're selecting 25 works that discuss January 26. This sampling of works from 2025 to 1825 highlights just how diverse approaches are and how much they have changed over time.
Explore the trail in full: www.austlit.edu.au/25th-anniver...

World-leading literature database celebrates 25 years UQ-housed literary database AustLit is celebrating 25 years of preserving Australian literature in 2026.

Did you know it's our 25th birthday this year? Read all about it in this fantastic piece from The University of Queensland, which has housed and supported us for many years.
#AustLit25 #happybirthdaytous #uq
news.uq.edu.au/2026-01-worl...

Brightly coloured calendar showing the celebrations for AustLit's 25th birthday.

Curious about how AustLit is celebrating its 25th birthday? Our social media calendar will tell you all! Download a copy to follow along as we create new trails, celebrate research projects, and provide search tips--or maybe come to our trivia night?! #AustLit25
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AustLit 25th Anniversary Information Trails - Welcome to the AustLit 25 for 25 Information Trails | AustLit Celebrating AustLit’s 25th birthday with information trails on key topics across the year.In 2026, we are proud to celebrate 25 years since AustLit first launched...

In 2026, we proudly celebrate 25 years of AustLit: the only national bibliography on this scale anywhere in the world! Want to celebrate along with us? Check our social media calendar, available via the link. And watch this space for #AustLit25 celebrations!
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