Fellow Oscar-winner Peter Jackson also paid homage, saying that his Lord of the Rings films would never have been made "without his life-long love of his wondrous images and storytelling".
Teaching this to young adults is a labor of love because we are responsible for developing life-long readers and writers and this task is not taken lightly by my team.
For those unacquainted with the lovelife of the Australian prime minister, I am referring to Tim Mathieson, her long-term boyfriend who lives with her at The Lodge in Canberra.