Susan Maushart (born 1958) is an American author, journalist and feminist. [1] She lived in Perth, Western Australia, for over 20 years and now lives in New York City. [2]
Maushart's journalistic career in Australia varied between working for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation [3] and regular columns in the Weekend Australian . [4] Maushart is also known for her ABC Radio series, StoryCatcher. [3]
Her books have covered wide-ranging topics from historical, to issues related to motherhood and marriage to that of teenagers interacting with modern media.
Her book Moore River Native Settlement won the Adelaide Festival Non-fiction Award in 1994. [5] and was short listed, in the Western Australian Premier's Book Award, 1994. [6]
Her book The Winter of Our Disconnect, published in 2010, chronicles her family's experiment in disconnecting from technology.[ citation needed ] The book details her realization of technology's presence in her household and her execution of dealing with it, while documenting her challenges and frustrations along the way. [7] She banned screens from her house for six months and in the end had the results she wanted. [7] The Daily Telegraph said this story "is a channel to a wider view into the impact of new media on the lives of families, into the very heart of the meaning of home." [8]
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia (WA). It is Australia's fourth-most populous city, with a population of 2.06 million living in Greater Perth in 2018. Perth is part of the South West Land Division of Western Australia, with most of the metropolitan area on the Swan Coastal Plain between the Indian Ocean and the Darling Scarp. The city has expanded outward from the original settlements on the Swan River, upon which the city's central business district and port of Fremantle are situated.
The Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed the Dockers, is a professional Australian rules football team competing in the Australian Football League (AFL), the pre-eminent competition of the sport. The team was founded in 1994 to represent and honour the rich footballing history associated with the port city of Fremantle. The Dockers were the second team from Western Australia to be admitted to the competition, following the West Coast Eagles in 1987.
Sally Jane Morgan is an Australian Aboriginal author, dramatist, and artist. Her works are on display in numerous private and public collections in Australia and around the world.
Timothy Fridtjof Flannery is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist, conservationist, explorer, and public scientist. He has discovered more than 30 mammal species. He served as the Chief Commissioner of the Climate Commission, a Federal Government body providing information on climate change to the Australian public before the Commission was abolished by the Abbott Government as its first act of government. On 23 September 2013, Flannery announced that he would join other sacked commissioners to form the independent Climate Council, that would be funded entirely by the community, and continue to provide independent climate science to the Australian public.
Monica Elizabeth Jolley AO was an English-born Australian writer who settled in Western Australia in the late 1950s and forged an illustrious literary career there. She was 53 when her first book was published, and she went on to publish fifteen novels, four short story collections and three non-fiction books, publishing well into her 70s and achieving significant critical acclaim. She was also a pioneer of creative writing teaching in Australia, counting many well-known writers such as Tim Winton among her students at Curtin University.
Anna Funder is an Australian author. She is the author of Stasiland and All That I Am and the novella The Girl With the Dogs.
Robert Duncan Drewe is an Australian novelist, non-fiction and short story writer.
Kim Scott is an Australian novelist of Aboriginal Australian ancestry. He is a descendant of the Noongar people of Western Australia.
Fremantle Football Club's drafting and trading history is often cited as a reason for their poor on-field record; the club took eight years to reach a final, and won their first final in 2006. In recent years, however, they have been successful in finding good players with late round and rookie list selections.
Gail Jones is an Australian novelist and academic.
Jon Doust is a comedian, writer, novelist and professional speaker, born in Bridgetown, Western Australia, who lives in Albany, Western Australia. He gained a BA majoring in English from the Western Australian Institute of Technology and worked in farming, retailing and journalism before pursuing a career in comedy and writing.
The National Water Polo League is the premier Australian domestic water polo competition. The men's league began in 1990 and the women's league started in 2004. Twelve clubs compete in the league, each fielding a women's and a men's team. As of 2012 five clubs are based in Sydney, two in Brisbane, and one each in Adelaide, Fremantle, Melbourne, Newcastle and Perth.
The Barbara Jefferis Award is an Australian literary award prize. The award was created in 2007 after being endowed by John Hinde upon his death to commemorate his late wife, author Barbara Jefferis. It is funded by his $1 million bequest. Originally an annual award, it has been awarded biennially since 2012.
Elizabeth Ann Byrski is an Australian writer and journalist.
John Albert Long is an Australian paleontologist who is currently Strategic Professor in Palaeontology at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. He was previously the Vice President of Research and Collections at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. He is also an author of popular science books. His main area of research is on the fossil fish of the Late Devonian Gogo Formation from northern Western Australia. It has yielded many important insights into fish evolution, such as Gogonasus and Materpiscis, the later specimen being crucial to our understanding of the origins of vertebrate reproduction.
Philippa Mary Nikulinsky is an artist and botanical illustrator based in Western Australia.
Niall Lucy was an Australian writer and scholar best known for his work in deconstruction.
Leslie Cannold is an Australian philosopher, ethicist, educationalist, writer, activist, and public intellectual.
Brooke Davis is a novelist and the author of the best selling novel Lost & Found (2014). Brooke grew up in Bellbrae, Victoria. Davis currently resides in Perth, WA.
Kellie-Maree Gibson is an Australian rules footballer playing for West Coast in the AFL Women's competition. She was one of Adelaide's two marquee players in the inaugural AFL Women's season and has also played for Fremantle. A multi-sport athlete, Gibson began her athletic career as a sprinter, and won a gold medal in rugby sevens at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.