Australian Rules Study Kit

The feature film Australian Rules is adapted from Philip Gwynne’s book, Deadly Unna? The book won the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Book of the Year for Older Readers Award in 1999, and was highly praised for its reconciliation message. The film is a story of mateship and love that is both confronting and sensitive. It clearly takes a strong anti-racist stance. Australian Rules and the Study Kit are a resource for teachers and students from years 11 through to tertiary years exploring universal themes such as responsibilities and relationships, and issues that go to the core of questions about Australian identity.

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Study Kit
The free resources listed below to support Australian Rules provide opportunities to study the transformation of a book to film and production processes as well as providing topics for discussion across a wide range of issues.