No Award loves wombats (not as much as penguins, sharks and cephalopods, but still a lot). And today, October 22, it’s World Wombat Day! I think you know what that means.
Category: australia
Australian YA and kidlit more deserving of screen adaptations than Tomorrow, When The War Began
Tomorrow, When the War Began is getting adapted AGAIN. Despite being a) a terrible series and b) adapted for movie in 2010. There is a lot of superior Australian YA and kidlit more deserving of screen adaptations. Liz and Steph bring their pro-am knowledge to give you an overview.
terrible xenophobic refugee and immigration business
There is a change.org petition for Peter Dutton, Minister For Singlehandedly Deciding Whether Or Not Refugees Who Have Been Raped Can Access Abortion And Counselling Services, to provide menstrual cups to refugees.
Liz has some opinions. (Later, Steph will have some opinions)
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places one might misplace an Australian PM
Australians are always losing their Prime Ministers. Into the Bass Strait, in the Liberal Party Party Room, in the audience of a Keating! performance. To assist the nation, No Award has compiled a list of places you might look if you’ve recently lost your Australian Prime Minister.
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2015 @seizureonline Viva La Novella Prize Winners
Steph has read the 2015 Seizure Viva La Novella novellas! Finally! Reviewed in the order in which she read them.
The Seizure Viva La Novella prize funds three (depending on the year) short novels by Australians and New Zealanders in being edited and published. Steph was for no dollars provided with electronic copies of Welcome to Orphancorp (Marlee Jane Ward) and Formaldehyde (Jane Rawson) by the authors, and purchased The End of Seeing (Christy Collins) using her own hard-earned penguin dollars.
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No Award watches stuff: Ready for This
We love an Aussie YA TV series here at No Award, and we also love Indigenous media. So bring on Ready for This, an ABC3 series about five Indigenous teens from around Australia, who all excel in various fields — “various” here meaning “music” and “sport” — coming to live at a Sydney boarding house while they study.
And, spoilers, it’s pretty great.
things you should do now that summer has landed heavily upon the nation
Things you should do now that summer has landed its 
heavy, clammy flipper upon the land. Includes actual advice and actual rants (on brand).
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racism and sportsball: on the excellent adam goodes
HELLO FRIENDS. Tomorrow Victoria gets a public holiday for AFL Grand Final Eve, in a move that I cannot even. As if it’s not bad enough that we get a public holiday for a horse race, we now have to have one for sportsball.
[Liz feels compelled to note here that Stephanie never works on Fridays anyway, and a bonus public holiday in the long, break-free wasteland between the Queen’s Birthday and Cup Day is a gift to us five-day-a-week peons.]
Anyway, Stephanie is a lifelong Sydney Swans supporter, and never has she been more passionate than this year, when deadset legend Adam Goodes has been subject to the gross racism that infests our sport. So in celebration of the end of the season, have some links and commentary and feels.
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museum shops of the world: heide museum of modern art
Liz and Ste
ph, accompanied by Friends of No Award Ashleigh and Dr Freya, visited the Heide Museum of Art on Saturday! It was VERY EXCELLENT. Also it turns out a Housemate of No Award is RELATED TO THE HEIDE CREW and this has made the world a better place.
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Clearing up some common misconceptions about Australian dragons
Unfortunately, there are a lot of myths about Australian dragons, both those native to the continent, and those that were introduced — deliberately or otherwise — by human activity. So we thought we’d throw together a quick listicle, outlining things more people should know about draconis Australis and other dragons one might find in Australia.
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