Our Sunshine

Our Sunshine
Author	Robert Drewe
Language	English
Publisher	Pan Macmillan, Australia
Publication date	1991
Publication place	Australia
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	189
ISBN	0330273264
Preceded by	Fortune
Followed by	The Drowner

Last updated November 08, 2025

Our Sunshine is a 1991 novel about Ned Kelly by Australian writer Robert Drewe.^[1]

It later served as a source of information for the 2003 film Ned Kelly , directed by Gregor Jordan and starring Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush and Naomi Watts.^[2]

Awards and nominations

1992 shortlisted NBC Banjo Awards — NBC Banjo Award for Fiction^[3]
1992 shortlisted Miles Franklin Award ^[4]

References

↑ White, Duncan (29 February 2020). "Our kids live with the notion of apocalypse". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 1 November 2025– via EBSCOhost.
↑ Zion, Lawrie (30 April 2002). "Watts runs with "Kelly" gang in Aussie biopic". Hollywood Reporter – International Edition. Retrieved 1 November 2025– via EBSCOhost.
↑ "Austlit — Our Sunshine by Robert Drewe — Awards". Austlit. Retrieved 8 November 2025.
↑ ""Five vie for literary award"". The Canberra Times, 12 May 1992, p4. Retrieved 8 November 2025.

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[1] White, Duncan (29 February 2020). "Our kids live with the notion of apocalypse". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 1 November 2025– via EBSCOhost.

[2] Zion, Lawrie (30 April 2002). "Watts runs with "Kelly" gang in Aussie biopic". Hollywood Reporter – International Edition. Retrieved 1 November 2025– via EBSCOhost.

[3] "Austlit — Our Sunshine by Robert Drewe — Awards". Austlit. Retrieved 8 November 2025.

[4] ""Five vie for literary award"". The Canberra Times, 12 May 1992, p4. Retrieved 8 November 2025.

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