Holy Grail Loses Its Lustre For Wizards Of Oz

IN 1969, the Australian Government made the first moves which would see a revival in filmmaking and the development of a local film industry: it set up the Australian Film Development Fund and the Experimental Film Fund, and announced that a national film school would be established. But it wasn't t

Wanted: An Australian Philanthropist For Kids' Literature

MAYBE some local philanthropist with an interest in words - Mr Murdoch or Mr Packer, perhaps? - would care to set up a children's book prize along the lines of the US and UK models: the Whitbread Children's Novel awards, the Newbery, Caldecott, Carnegie and Greenaway medals. This would be a fine aug