Tim Winton's The Turning
http://www.themonthly.com.au/node/998
An excellent interview with Tim Winton on Australian television. Highly recommended.
http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/wintont/wintont.html
Brief biography.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s1227915.htm
An interview in 2004. Highly recommended.
http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/article_tim_winton_cloudstreet_dirt_music_interview.htm
Another more recent interview, 2006.
Interview: Tim Winton | Books | The Guardian
Interesting article in 2008.
You might compare the evocation of adolescence in The Turning with the successful Australian TV series he wrote called Lockie Leonard . There are several trailers and extracts on U-Tube.