series Palace of Dreams (1985) as well as Dancing Daze (1986), Police Rescue (1991), Bananas in Pyjamas (1992), Wildside (1997), Swinging (1997), Magic Mountain (1997), The Secret Life of Us (2001), and Outriders (2001). Her Police Rescue scripts have been nominated for AFI, AWGIE and State Library awards. Her series Offspring, produced by Southern Star/John Edwards and Network Ten, was broadcast from 2010. Seven series of Offspring were broadcast up to 2017, with Oswald involved in the first five series. Debra is also the author of the children's novels Me and Barry Terrific (1987) and The Return of the Baked Bean (1990) and The Fifth Quest (2002). She has also written three Aussie Bites – Nathan and the Ice Rockets (1998), Frank and the Emergency Joke (2000), and "Frank and the Secret Club". Her other novels for young people are The Redback Leftovers (Penguin 2000, republished 2007), Getting Air (2007, Random House), and Blue Noise (2009), a book about teenagers who establish a blues band. She has written four plays for teenage audiences, the most recent of which is House on Fire, performed by the Australian Theatre for Young People in June 2010. She has written two previous plays for the Australian Theatre for Young People – Skate, which toured to the Belfast Festival, and Stories in the Dark . Of Stories in the Dark, her winner in the NSW Literary Awards, the judges said: "By engaging us with dark tales, paradoxically told as a distraction in a time of war, Oswald probes the role of imagination in survival, with insight and a sureness of craft.... Debra Oswald's clear-eyed, compassionate play shows us the role of story in making sense, and thus its place in the persistence of hope." In 2021 Oswald debuted on stage, performing her one-woman show Is There Something Wrong With That Lady? at the Griffin Theatre. Awards AACTA Awards, Best TV Screenplay, 2014: winner for Offspring, series 4, episode 13 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Script Award, 2011: winner for Offspring New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Play Award, 2008: winner for Stories in the Dark Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Drama Script (Stage) Award, 2005: shortlisted for Mr Bailey's Minder Griffin Award for New Australian Playwriting, 2004: winner for Mr Bailey's Minder Seaborn Playwright's Prize for The Peach Season (2005) Bibliography Plays Dags (Currency Press, 1987 The Two-way Mirror [manuscript] Our Hopeful Youth: a radio