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Get creative

Create an artistic piece (painting/song/drama play/menu/stage costume) that
celebrates the themes of diversity, anti-discrimination and multiculturalism.

Use this resource list for examples to inspire you!

Prose fiction

  • Ballard, J G, Empire of the Sun, HarperCollins, 1994, ISBN
    0006547001
  • Card, Orson Scott, Ender's Game, Orbit, 1998, ISBN 185723720X
  • Courtney, Bryce, The Power of One, Random House, 1989, ISBN
    0345359925
  • Lee, Harper, To Kill a Mockingbird, HarperCollins, 1960 ISBN
    0060194995
  • Twain, Mark, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Penguin Classics, 1986,
    ISBN 0140430180

Drama/Shakespeare

  • Gow, Michael, Away, Currency Press, 1988, ISBN 0868192112
  • Jamieson, Nigel, In Our Name (Performed 2004, Belvoir St Theatre,
    Sydney)
  • Nowra, Louis, Capricornia, Currency Press, 1992, ISBN 0868193135
  • Nowra, Louis, Così, Currency Press, 1994, ISBN 0868194034
  • Nowra, Louis, Radiance, Currency Press, 1993, ISBN 0868193704
  • Shakespeare, William, The Tempest, Cambridge University Press, New
    Cambridge Shakespeare, 2002, ISBN 052129374X, or Cambridge School Shakespeare, 1995,
    ISBN 0521479037

Poetry

  • Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Complete Poems,
    Penguin Classics, 1997, ISBN 0140423532 ['The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1834)',
    'This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison', 'Frost at Midnight', 'Kubla Khan']
  • Skrzynecki, Peter, Immigrant Chronicle, University of Queensland Press,
    1975, ISBN 0702210528 ['Immigrants at Central Station, 1951', 'Feliks Skrzynecki',
    'Crossing the Red Sea', 'Leaving home', 'Migrant hostel', 'A drive in the country',
    'Post card']
  • Sujata Bhatt, 'The One Who Goes Away'; Ivan Lalic, 'Of Eurydice'; Gwyneth Lewis,
    'Fax X'; Mudrooroo, 'A Righteous Day'; János Pilinszky, 'The French Prisoner';
    Vittorio Sereni, 'A Dream'; Xuan Quynh, 'Worried Over the Days Past'
  • Watson, Ken (ed), At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners, St
    Clair Press, 1999, ISBN 0949898937

Nonfiction

  • Bragg, Melvyn, On Giants' Shoulders, Sceptre, 1999, ISBN 0340712600
  • Morgan, Sally, My Place, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1987, ISBN
    0949206318
  • Martin, Jesse, Lionheart, Allen & Unwin, 2001, ISBN 1865085707

Film

  • Benigni, Roberto, Life is Beautiful, Roadshow, 1999
  • Chadha, Gurinder, Bend it like Beckham (UK), Fox Searchlight
    Productions, 2002 (see http://www2.foxsearchlight.com/benditlikebeckham/)
  • Do, Khoa, Footy Legends, Icon Films, 2006
  • Noyce, Phillip, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Magnum Pacific, 2002

Songs