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Highly effective tutoring practices – VCE English and ATAR

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    • English Texts − The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Fred D’Aguiar | The Longest Memory | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid’s Tale | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Margaret Atwood | The Penelopiad | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Truman Capote | In Cold Blood | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Euripides | Medea | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Euripides | The Women of Troy | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Clint Eastwood (Director) | Invictus | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • S.E. Hinton | The Outsiders | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Alfred Hitchcock (Director) | Rear Window | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Hannah Kent | Burial Rites | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Jhumpa Lahiri | The Namesake | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Joan London | The Golden Age | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Joseph Mankiewicz (Director) | All About Eve | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • George Orwell | Nineteen Eighty-Four | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Hannie Rayson | Extinction | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • William Shakespeare | Macbeth | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • William Shakespeare | Othello | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Mary Shelly | Frankenstein | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Tom Wright | Black Diggers | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Bruce Beresford (director), Ladies in Black – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Bruce Beresford (director), Paradise Road – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • J. M. Coetzee, Foe – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Nigel Cole (director), Made in Dagenham – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Stephen Daldry (director), Billy Elliot – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Jack Davis, No Sugar – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Robyn Davidson, Tracks – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Robyn Davidson, Tracks – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Elissa Down (director), The Black Balloon – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman, The 7 Stages of Grieving – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Anthony Fabian (director), Skin – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Asghar Farhadi (director), A Separation – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Anna Funder, Stasiland – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Stephen Frears (director), The Queen – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Kate Grenville, The Lieutenant: A Novel – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Rosalie Ham, The Dressmaker – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Rolf de Heer (director), Charlie’s Country – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Toni Jordan, Nine Days – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Cate Kennedy, Like a House on Fire – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • David Lean (director), A Passage to India – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Kent MacCarter and Ali Lemer (eds) Joyful Strains: Making Australia Home – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • David Malouf, Ransom – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Arthur Miller, The Crucible – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Philip Noyce (director), Rabbit-Proof Fence – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Sean Penn (director), Into the Wild – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Reginald Rose, Twelve Angry Men – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Gary Ross (director), Pleasantville – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Emily St John Mandel, Station Eleven – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • William Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 1 – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Sophocles, Antigone – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Artie Spiegelman, Maus – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Megan Stack, Every Man in this Village is a Liar – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • The Wachowskis (directors), The Matrix – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Tobias Wolff, This Boy’s Life: A Memoir – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb, I am Malala– The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Anna Ziegler, Photograph 51 – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Robert Bolt, A Man for all Seasons – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Bertolt Brecht, Life of Galileo – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Albert Camus, The Outsider – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Albert Camus, The Plague – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Charles Dickens, Great Expectations – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Charles Dickens, Hard Times – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Brian Friel, Freedom of the City – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Aldous Huxley, Brave New World – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Primo Levi, If This is a Man – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman, The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Arthur Miller, A View from the Bridge – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • George Orwell, Animal Farm – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • J. D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Willian Shakespeare, Hamlet – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Willian Shakespeare, Richard III – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Sophocles, King Oedipus – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Elie Wiesel, Night – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Bruce Beresford (director), Breaker Morant – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Adam Elliot (director), Harvie Krumpet – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Bob Fosse (director), Cabaret – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Elia Kazan (director), On the Waterfront – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Stanley Kubrick (director), Dr. Strangelove – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Ray Lawrence (director), Jindabyne – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Ray Lawrence (director), Lantana – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Kevin Macdonald (director), The Last King of Scotland – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Sam Mendes (director), American Beauty – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Michael Moore (director), Bowling for Columbine – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano (directors), The Intouchables – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Andrew Niccol (director), Gattaca – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Alan Parker (director), Mississippi Burning – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Rachel Perkins (director), Mabo – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Alex Proyas (director), I, Robot – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • John Ruane (director), Dead Letter Office – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Martin Scorsese (director), The Age of Innocence – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Ridley Scott (director), Blade Runner – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Jim Sheridan (director), In the Name of the Father – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Rob Sitch (director), The Castle – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Rob Sitch, Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner and Jane Kennedy (directors) Frontline (television series) – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Sarah Watt (director), Look Both Ways – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Orson Welles (director), Citizen Kane – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Robert Altman (director), The Player – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Lasse Hallström (director), What’s Eating Gilbert Grape – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Barry Levinson (director), Wag the Dog – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Baz Luhrmann (director), Strictly Ballroom – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • John Madden (director), Shakespeare in Love – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Carol Reed (director), The Third Man – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Steven Spielberg (director), Schindler’s List – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Andrew Stanton (director), WALL-E – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • James Mc Teigue (director), V for Vendetta – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Pete Travis (director), Omagh – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Peter Weir (director), Dead Poets Society – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Peter Weir (director), The Truman Show – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Peter Weir (director), Witness – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Scott Anderson, Triage – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Niccolò Ammaniti, I’m Not Scared – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Pat Barker, Border Crossing – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Brian Caswell and David Phu An Chiem, Only the Heart – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Stephen Chbosky, (director) Wonder – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Bruce Dawe, Sometimes Gladness – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Garry Disher, The Divine Wind – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Anh Do, The Happiest Refugee – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Robert Drewe, The Shark Net – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Michael Frayn, Spies – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Raymond Gaita, Romulus, My Father – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • William Golding, Lord of the Flies – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Peter Goldsworthy, Maestro – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Graham Greene, The Quiet American – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Kate Grenville, The Secret River – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Jane Harrison, Stolen – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Philip Hodgins, Dispossessed – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Paul Kelly, Don’t Start Me Talking – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Thomas Keneally, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Christopher Koch, The Year of Living Dangerously – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Henry Lawson, The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Julia Leigh, The Hunter – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Michael Leunig, The Lot – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Janet Lewis, The Wife of Martin Guerre – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Wayne Macauley, Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Ian McEwan, Enduring Love – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Alistair MacLeod, Island – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Shane Maloney, The Brush Off – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • David Malouf, Fly Away Peter – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • David Malouf, Dream Stuff – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Joanna Murray-Smith, Bombshells – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Tim O’Brien, In the Lake of the Woods – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Katherine Susannah Prichard, Coonardoo – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Anne Provoost, Falling – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Anna Quindlen, One True Thing – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Hannie Rayson, Inheritance – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Jon Silkin (ed.), The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Daryl Tonkin, Jackson’s Track – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Larry Watson, Montana 1948 – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • David Williamson, The Club – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Tim Winton, Minimum of Two – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Amy Witting, I for Isobel – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream — The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Alice Munro, Runaway – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • William Wordsworth, William Wordsworth: Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Steven Amsterdam, Things We Didn’t See Coming − The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Maxine Beneba Clarke, The Hate Race − The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Maxine Beneba Clarke, The Hate Race − The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • My Articles as Originally Written
    • Victorian English teachers mobilised for the ‘Voice’ and critical race theory
    • Tessa Hadley, Bad Dreams and Other Stories (2017) − The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Tessa Hadley, Bad Dreams and Other Stories (2017) − The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Tessa Hadley, Bad Dreams and Other Stories (2017) – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Billy Wilder (director), Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, D. M. Marshman Jr (writers), Sunset Boulevard (1950) – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962) – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Stephen Maxwell Johnson (director), Chris Anastassiades (writer) High Ground (2020) – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr (directors), Rolf de Heer and Julie Ryan (writers), Ten Canoes (2006) – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Magda Szubanski, Reckoning (2015) – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Taika Waititi (writer-director), Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (2009) – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • The chattering classes, whispering classes, bully-victims and cancel culture: life and education in the politically correct era
    • A director meets his Waterloo [a critical review of the film Napoleon]
    • English Texts − The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Fred D’Aguiar | The Longest Memory | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid’s Tale | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Margaret Atwood | The Penelopiad | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Truman Capote | In Cold Blood | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Euripides | Medea | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Euripides | The Women of Troy | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Clint Eastwood (Director) | Invictus | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • S.E. Hinton | The Outsiders | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Alfred Hitchcock (Director) | Rear Window | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Hannah Kent | Burial Rites | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Jhumpa Lahiri | The Namesake | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Joan London | The Golden Age | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Joseph Mankiewicz (Director) | All About Eve | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • George Orwell | Nineteen Eighty-Four | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Hannie Rayson | Extinction | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • William Shakespeare | Macbeth | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • William Shakespeare | Othello | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Mary Shelly | Frankenstein | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Tom Wright | Black Diggers | The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Bruce Beresford (director), Ladies in Black – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Bruce Beresford (director), Paradise Road – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • J. M. Coetzee, Foe – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Nigel Cole (director), Made in Dagenham – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Stephen Daldry (director), Billy Elliot – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Jack Davis, No Sugar – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Robyn Davidson, Tracks – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Robyn Davidson, Tracks – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Elissa Down (director), The Black Balloon – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman, The 7 Stages of Grieving – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Anthony Fabian (director), Skin – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Asghar Farhadi (director), A Separation – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Anna Funder, Stasiland – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Stephen Frears (director), The Queen – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Kate Grenville, The Lieutenant: A Novel – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Rosalie Ham, The Dressmaker – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Rolf de Heer (director), Charlie’s Country – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Toni Jordan, Nine Days – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Cate Kennedy, Like a House on Fire – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • David Lean (director), A Passage to India – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Kent MacCarter and Ali Lemer (eds) Joyful Strains: Making Australia Home – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • David Malouf, Ransom – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Arthur Miller, The Crucible – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Philip Noyce (director), Rabbit-Proof Fence – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Sean Penn (director), Into the Wild – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Reginald Rose, Twelve Angry Men – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Gary Ross (director), Pleasantville – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Emily St John Mandel, Station Eleven – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • William Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 1 – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Sophocles, Antigone – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Artie Spiegelman, Maus – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Megan Stack, Every Man in this Village is a Liar – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • The Wachowskis (directors), The Matrix – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Tobias Wolff, This Boy’s Life: A Memoir – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb, I am Malala– The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Anna Ziegler, Photograph 51 – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Robert Bolt, A Man for all Seasons – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Bertolt Brecht, Life of Galileo – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Albert Camus, The Outsider – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Albert Camus, The Plague – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Charles Dickens, Great Expectations – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Charles Dickens, Hard Times – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Brian Friel, Freedom of the City – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Aldous Huxley, Brave New World – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Primo Levi, If This is a Man – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Najaf Mazari and Robert Hillman, The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Arthur Miller, A View from the Bridge – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • George Orwell, Animal Farm – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • J. D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Willian Shakespeare, Hamlet – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Willian Shakespeare, Richard III – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Sophocles, King Oedipus – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Elie Wiesel, Night – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Bruce Beresford (director), Breaker Morant – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Adam Elliot (director), Harvie Krumpet – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Bob Fosse (director), Cabaret – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Elia Kazan (director), On the Waterfront – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Stanley Kubrick (director), Dr. Strangelove – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Ray Lawrence (director), Jindabyne – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Ray Lawrence (director), Lantana – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Kevin Macdonald (director), The Last King of Scotland – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Sam Mendes (director), American Beauty – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Michael Moore (director), Bowling for Columbine – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano (directors), The Intouchables – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Andrew Niccol (director), Gattaca – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Alan Parker (director), Mississippi Burning – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Rachel Perkins (director), Mabo – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Alex Proyas (director), I, Robot – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • John Ruane (director), Dead Letter Office – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Martin Scorsese (director), The Age of Innocence – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Ridley Scott (director), Blade Runner – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Jim Sheridan (director), In the Name of the Father – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Rob Sitch (director), The Castle – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Rob Sitch, Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner and Jane Kennedy (directors) Frontline (television series) – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Sarah Watt (director), Look Both Ways – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Orson Welles (director), Citizen Kane – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Robert Altman (director), The Player – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Lasse Hallström (director), What’s Eating Gilbert Grape – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Barry Levinson (director), Wag the Dog – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Baz Luhrmann (director), Strictly Ballroom – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • John Madden (director), Shakespeare in Love – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Carol Reed (director), The Third Man – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Steven Spielberg (director), Schindler’s List – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Andrew Stanton (director), WALL-E – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • James Mc Teigue (director), V for Vendetta – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Pete Travis (director), Omagh – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Peter Weir (director), Dead Poets Society – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Peter Weir (director), The Truman Show – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Peter Weir (director), Witness – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Scott Anderson, Triage – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Niccolò Ammaniti, I’m Not Scared – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Pat Barker, Border Crossing – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Brian Caswell and David Phu An Chiem, Only the Heart – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Stephen Chbosky, (director) Wonder – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Bruce Dawe, Sometimes Gladness – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Garry Disher, The Divine Wind – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Anh Do, The Happiest Refugee – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Robert Drewe, The Shark Net – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Michael Frayn, Spies – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Raymond Gaita, Romulus, My Father – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • William Golding, Lord of the Flies – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Peter Goldsworthy, Maestro – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Graham Greene, The Quiet American – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Kate Grenville, The Secret River – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Jane Harrison, Stolen – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Philip Hodgins, Dispossessed – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Paul Kelly, Don’t Start Me Talking – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Thomas Keneally, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Christopher Koch, The Year of Living Dangerously – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Henry Lawson, The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Julia Leigh, The Hunter – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Michael Leunig, The Lot – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Janet Lewis, The Wife of Martin Guerre – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Wayne Macauley, Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Ian McEwan, Enduring Love – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Alistair MacLeod, Island – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Shane Maloney, The Brush Off – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • David Malouf, Fly Away Peter – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • David Malouf, Dream Stuff – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Joanna Murray-Smith, Bombshells – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Tim O’Brien, In the Lake of the Woods – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Katherine Susannah Prichard, Coonardoo – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Anne Provoost, Falling – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Anna Quindlen, One True Thing – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Hannie Rayson, Inheritance – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Jon Silkin (ed.), The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry – The Meaning in a Nutshell
    • Daryl Tonkin, Jackson’s Track – The Meaning in a Nutshell
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    • Billy Wilder (director), Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, D. M. Marshman Jr (writers), Sunset Boulevard (1950) – The Meaning in a Nutshell
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    • Stephen Maxwell Johnson (director), Chris Anastassiades (writer) High Ground (2020) – The Meaning in a Nutshell
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