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Barry Hill was a poet, novelist, journalist and librettist: b. Melbourne 1943.
Mary Ernestine Hill was a journalist, wanderer, writer of popular fiction and non-fiction: b. Rockhampton 1899; d. Brisbane 1972.
Philip Hodgins was a poet: b. Shepparton 1959; d. Maryborough 1995.
Clement Hodgkinson was a surveyor (Northern Rivers NSW) and public servant: b. Southhampton 1819; d. Hawthorn 1893.
Keith Hofmaier was a local historian, Victoria.
W.H.C. Holmes was a settler: b. c1861; d. Korumburra 1928.
Ion Llewellyn Idriess was a prospector, drover, rabbitter, boundary rider, adventurer, soldier and prolific author: b. Waverley 1889; d. Mona Vale 1979.
Yallum Jackey (Werrieotinna) was a labourer/resident at John Riddoch’s station in Yallum Park, South Australia, last full-blood member of the Pinejunga tribe: b. c1830; d. 1902.
Dianne Dorothy Johnson was a social anthropologist, and advocate for indigenous people and the environment: b. 1947; d. 2012.
Murray Johnson is a historian and author: b. 1956.
Frederic Wood Jones was an anatomist, naturalist, anthropologist at Adelaide, Melbourne and Manchester universities: b. Hackney 1879; d. London 1954.
Paul Kane is a poet, teacher and critic: b. New York 1950.
Thomas Michael Kenneally is an author (novels, non-fiction, plays): b. Sydney 1935.
Alfred Stephen Kenyon was an ethnographer, historian, engineer and nation builder: b. Victoria 1867; d. Heidelberg 1943.
Margaret Kiddle was a historian: b. South Yarra 1914; d. Richmond 1958.
John Kinsella is a poet, novelist, critic, publisher and journal editor: b. Perth 1963.
David Herbert Lawrence was a writer: b. Notts 1885; d. France 1930.
Henry Lawson was a writer of short stories and verse: b. Grenfell 1867; d. Sydney 1922.
Timothy (‘Tim’) Lee is a writer and rural broadcaster: b. 1964.
Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt was an explorer and scientist: b. Prussia 1813; d. 1848.
Bert Leoni and Tip Byrne were sugar cane farmers in North Queensland.
Gladys Linke is an author: b. 1927.
Tim Low is a biologist, writer and environmentalist: b. 1956
James Stuart 'Jimmy' MacDonald was a gallery director and conservative art critic (modernists were 'filth'): b. Carlton 1878; d. Melbourne 1952.
Hugh Roger MacDonald is a writer (novels, non-fiction, poetry): b. Young 1941.
Ann McGrath is a historian: b. Brisbane 1956.
Dennis McIntosh is a shearer, tunneler, swimming coach, teacher and writer: b. Townsville 1958.
Dorothy Maguire was the daughter of pioneer Kangaroo Valley selector Patrick Maguire: b. 1852; d. 1944.
David Malouf is a writer (novels, short stories, libretti, poems): b. Brisbane 1934.
Alan Mayne is a professor of social history and public policy.
Louisa Anne (aka Mrs Charles) Meredith (aka Twamley) was a pioneer, writer of non-fiction, fiction and verse, botanist, environmentalist and artist: b. Birmingham 1812; d. Collingwood 1895.
Henry Howard Meyrick (F.J. Meyrick) was a pastoralist: b. Ramsbury 1822; d. (drowned in the La Trobe river) 1847.
Edward Millen was a grazier, journalist, politician and founder of the Commonwealth Repatriation Department: b. Deal 1860; d. Caulfield 1923.
David Albert Millsom is a farmer: b. Melbourne 1950.
Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (Lt. Col, Sir) was a soldier, NSW surveyor-general and explorer: b. Scotland 1792; d. Darling Point 1855.
Georgiana Molloy (nee Kennedy) was a pioneer settler in Augusta (Western Australia), pioneer botanist, exporter of Western Australian seeds to United Kingdom gardens: b. Cumberland 1805; d. Busselton (consequent on the birth of her fifth child) 1842.
Frank Moorhouse is a writer of essays, short stories (many of them ‘discontinuous narratives’), film, radio and TV scripts, and journalist: b. Nowra 1938.
Andrew Muir: b. 1917; d. 2006.
Sarah Murgatroyd was a British journalist, adventurer and author: b. England 1967; d. 2002.
Justin Murphy is a journalist and environmental scientist.
Les Allan Murray is a poet, essayist and literary editor: b. Nabiac 1938.
Francis Myers (‘Telemachus’) was a journalist (Melbourne Argus): b. 1854; d. Jindabyne 1907.
John Shaw Nielson was a farmer, public servant and poet: b. Penola 1872; d. Melbourne 1942.
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly Kath Walker) was a poet, educator and Aboriginal activist: b. North Stradbroke Island 1920; d. Victoria 1993.
John Oxley was an explorer, sheep and cattle breeder, and bank director: b. Yorkshire 1784; d. Kirkham 1828.
Andrew Barton ‘Banjo’ Paterson was a war correspondent, soldier, equestrian, bushman, balladeer, poet, journalist, writer of books for children, humourist and broadcaster: b. Orange 1864; d. Sydney 1941.
Brian Penton was a journalist, newspaper editor, novelist and social critic: b. Brisbane 1904; d. Sydney 1951.
Xavier Pons is a French academic: b. Rodez 1948.
Ida Margaret Poore (Lady) was a writer and the wife of Admiral Sir Richard Poore, Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Naval Station from 1908–1911: b. 1859; d. 1941.
Rosa Caroline Praed (aka Mrs Campbell Praed) was a novelist, memoirist and spiritualist: b. Bromelton 1851; d. Devon 1935.
Katharine Susannah Prichard was a journalist, novelist and communist party activist: b. Fiji 1883; d. Perth 1969.
Stephen J Pyne is a United States firefighter, and historian specialising in environment, exploration and fire: b. 1949.
Henry Reynolds is a historian: b. Hobart 1938.
John George Robertson was a botanist and squatter: b. Scotland 1803; d. Scotland 1862.
Walter Edmund Roth was a doctor, anthropologist, protector of Aboriginal people: b. London 1861; d. Guyana 1933.
George Augustus Robinson was a builder, musterer, ‘civilizer’ of Tasmanian indigenous people, protector of Aboriginal people in Port Phillip District: b. London 1791; d. Bath 1866.
Eric Charles Rolls was a farmer, soldier, poet, historian, childrens author and writer of classic works on Australian landscape and history: b. Grenfell 1923; d. Camden Haven 2007.
Deborah Bird Rose is an ethnographer: b. Maine 1946.
Brendan Ryan is a poet: b. Panmure 1963.
Oscar de Satge was a pastoralist, parliamentarian and ‘pure merino’: b. England 1836; d. England 1906.
George Seddon was an academic, polymath, urban designer, planner and author: b. Berriwollock 1927; d. Fremantle 2007.
Kenneth Adolf Slessor was a journalist, newspaper and journal editor, war correspondent amd poet: b. Orange 1901; d. Sydney 1971.
Robert Henry Stainthorpe was a boundary rider and commission agent: b. Forest Creek 1855; d. Malvern 1934.
William (Bill) Edward Hanley Stanner was a journalist, soldier, advocate for Aboriginal interests, and anthropologist: b.Watson’s Bay 1905; d. Canberra 1981.
Douglas Stewart was a poet, literary editor and playwright: b. New Zealand 1913; d. Hornsby 1985.
Randolph Stow was a writer of fiction, poetry, reviews, childrens books and libretti: b. Geraldton 1935; d. Harwich 2010.
Theodor George Henry (Ted) Strehlow was a linguist, Commonwealth patrol officer and author: b. Hermannsburg 1908; d. Adelaide 1978.
Charles Sturt was a soldier, surveyor-general and explorer: b. India 1795; d. Cheltenham 1869.
Fraser Sutherland (Reverend) was a Presbyterian minister: b. 1895; d. 1973.
Abel Tasman was a navigator: b. Netherlands c1603; d. Batavia 1659.
Thomas Griffith Taylor was a geographer: b. Essex 1880; d. Manly 1963.
Colin Milton Thiele was a soldier, writer, educator, and author of children’s books and books about rural life: b. Eudunda 1920; d. Brisbane 2006.
Daryl Tonkin was a stockman, farmer and timber miller: b. Essendon 1918; d. Drouin 2008.
David Trigger is an anthropologist: b. Brisbane
1953.
James Hamilton Twigg was a miner, hunter, fencing contractor and farmer at Powalup, Western Australia, later British East Africa: b. Ireland 1874; d. unknown.
Roger Underwood is a forester, bushfire specialist and columnist in Western Australia.
John Vader was a WWII soldier and airman, journalist and author (including several books about war): b. Armidale (NSW) 1919; d. Potts Point 2005.
Raymond A. Walls is a Shire Engineer and local historian.
Shirley Patricia Walker is a lecturer, critic and author: b. 1927.
Samuel Wagan Watson is a poet: b. Brisbane 1972.
John or Jackey White was the last member of the Bunganditj tribe, of the Wannon district, Victoria: b. c1824; d. Lake Condah 1894.
Neville Graham White was a soldier, geneticist, biologist, linguist and anthropologist: b. Geelong 1945.
Patrick White was a novelist, playwright, Nobel Prize-winner (1973): b. London 1912; d. Sydney 1990.
William John Wills was a shepherd, surveyor, astronomer and second-in-command to Robert O’Hara Burke on an expedition to cross Australia from north to south: b. Devon 1834; d. Cooper’s Creek 1861.
Korah Halcomb Wills was a publican and Mayor of Bowen and Mackay (QLD): b. Dover 1828; d. Brentford 1896.
Trevor Winter was a pastoralist in Murndal Wannon River, Vic., and brother of Samuel Pratt Winter: b. Ireland 1822; d. 1885.
Tim Winton is an Australian writer: b. Karrinyup 1960.
Judith Arundell Wright was a poet, author and environmentalist: b. Armidale (NSW) 1915; d. Canberra 2000.
Tony Wright is a journalist, columnist for The Age and author: b. Heywood 1951.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This anthology relies on research for The Bush (Penguin, 2014). The many people who helped me with the first project have my thanks for this one as well. Thanks also to Paul Kane. And at Penguin, Bethany Patch and Ben Ball.
I am, as ever, grateful for the invaluable help of Helen Smith.
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Page 1 Thea Astley: Ray Cash/Newspix. Page 2 Robyn Davidson: © Rick Smolan. Page 3 Oodgeroo Noonuccal: David Bragg/Newspix; Ernestine Hill: National Archives of Australia: A1200, L12288; John Shaw Nielson: Austrlaian poet [UQFL477, PIC414] Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library; Margaret Kiddle: 1946, University of Melbourne Photograph collection, University of Melbourne Archives, 1991.0113.00002. Page 4 Joseph Banks: Joseph Banks Esq 1774 by William Dickinson after Sir Joshua Reynolds mezzotint, Collection: National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; Charles Bean: News Ltd/Newspix; Charles Sturt: Courtesy of State Library of South Australia [B 3854]. Page 5 Marcus Clarke: News Ltd/Newspix; David Campbell: National Archives of Australia [Item: A1200, L16973]; Allan Cunningham: Portrait of Allan Cunningham, National Library of Australia, nla.obj-134318226; James Boyce: Courtesy of Black Inc. Books. Page 6 T.G.H. Strehlow: News Ltd/Newspix. Page 7 Eric Rolls: Jim Trifyllis/Newspix; Sarah Murgatroyd: Courtesy of Kevin Butler; Ann McGrath: © Stuart Hay; Colin Thiele: David Sproule/Newspix. Page 8 Arthur Hoey Davis: Photograph of Arthur Hoey Davis (Stelle Rudd), 13 Dec 1952, [UQFL478, PC493], Fryer Library, University of Queensland; Katharine Susannah Prichard: Courtesy of Mitchell Library; George Dunderdale: Magistrates Court of Victoria; Edward John Eyre: Edward John Eyre 1867 by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879) albumen print. Collection: National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. Page 9 Thomas Livingstone Mitchell: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales; Mrs Aeneas (Jeannie) Gunn: Courtesy of Fairfax; George Augustus Robinson: who died 18th Oct. 1866, Dowling (Record ID: 615750), W.L. Crowther Library, Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office. Page 10 Barbara Baynton: Courtesy of Text Publishing; Joseph Furphy: News Ltd/Newspix; Georgiana Molloy: Department of Conservation and Land Management, Western Australia; Ludwig Leichardt: Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Liechardt, unknown. Page 11 Rosa Praed: Courtesy of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; W.E.H. Stanner: © Australian War Memorial [ID number: P04393.001]; William Wills: Portrait of W.J. Wills courtesy of Libraries Australia [ID: 49201290]; W.E. Roth: Courtesy of State Library of Queensland. Page 12 Oscar de Satge: Courtesy of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; Mary Gilmore: News Ltd/Newspix; Louisa Anne Meredith: Courtesy of Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria, Australian National Herbarium. Page 13 Lucy Gray: Courtesy of Anne Janet Allingham; Dorothy Maguire: New Holland Publishers; Kenneth Slessor: author and journalist [UQFL477, PIC806] Fryer Library, University of Queensland. Page 14 Thomas Keneally: Reg Innell/Getty Images; David Malouf: Justine Walpole/Newspix. Page 15 Daryl Tonkin: Photograph by Ingvar Kenne © 2003; Randolph Stow: Courtesy of the estate of Randolph Stow; Roger McDonald: Alan Pryke/Newspix. Page 16 Samuel Wagan Watson: © Helen Kassila; Deborah Rose: Courtesy of Deborah Rose; Judith Wright: News Ltd/Newspix.
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ALSO BY DON WATSON
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Death Sentence
Watson’s Dictionary of Weasel Words
American Journeys
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