Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant, newly arrived in Australia, and attempts to understand the aspirational values and social rituals of everyday urban Australians of the 1950s and ’60s…. and…
Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the “Wackiest Ship in the Navy” – a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don’t know a jib…
Steve McAllister, an Australian official for The New Guinea Administration, gets orders to investigate an oil discovery by Ned ‘Shark-Eye’ Kelly in the interior. He selects his native policeman, Sergeant-Major…
Smiley Greevins is a cheeky, mischievous, imaginative little boy who lives in the small town of Murrumbilla in the Australian outback. His father Bill is a poor drover who is…
In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city. A ramshackle group of…
It’s the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating and burning everything in a “scorched earth” policy. Rather than kill all their cattle,…