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• PoetryThe Bushrangers, a Play in Five Acts, and Other PoemsCharles Harpur · 1853A verse tragedy about a bushranger, followed by poems on creeks and the echoes of the country.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryThe Story of BalladeädroGeorge Gordon McCrae · 1867The abduction of a young Aboriginal woman, told in English verse after a history of the colony.Literature
• PoetrySea Spray and Smoke DriftAdam Lindsay Gordon · 1867Horses, falls, the sea and regrets of youth, in ballads and melancholy verse.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryLeaves from Australian ForestsHenry Kendall · 1869Poems of forest and running water, in which a country with no words of its own looks for them in a language learned elsewhere.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelHis Natural LifeMarcus Clarke · 1874A son of good family accused of a murder takes a false name and passes through all the penal colonies of the colony.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelRobbery Under ArmsRolf Boldrewood · 1888A condemned man tells how a father, a brother and a gentleman swindler led him from cattle theft to the banks.LiteraturePublic domain
• TheatreRobbery Under ArmsAlfred Dampier and Garnet Walch · 1890The novel of the bush bandits reworked as a melodrama, with a corrupt policeman, a villain and Irish comic characters.Literature
• PoetryWhere the Dead Men LieBarcroft Boake · 1891Where lie those killed by work in the bush, and who lives off their toil.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelSeven Little AustraliansEthel Turner · 1894Seven unruly children, an officer father who does not joke, and a daughter who comes back alone from boarding school.Literature
• TaleAustralian Legendary TalesKatie Langloh Parker · 1896Stories about the origin of birds, lakes and stars, collected on a cattle station from their storytellers.Literature
• Short storiesWhile the Billy BoilsHenry Lawson · 1896Some fifty short stories about life in the bush, including that of a mother who watches for a snake until dawn.Literature
• Short storiesBelow and On TopEdward Dyson · 1898The gold mines of Victoria, underground and on the surface, told by someone who worked in them.LiteraturePublic domain
• Short storiesOn Our SelectionSteele Rudd · 1899A family clears a piece of land that yields nothing, and every disaster there is told as a farce.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelMy Brilliant CareerMiles Franklin · 1901A penniless girl from the bush wants to write, in a time and a country that have no use for it.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelSuch Is LifeTom Collins · 1903A minor official recounts a few days on the road in the bush and misunderstands nearly everything.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelAn Outback MarriageBanjo Paterson · 1906A young Englishman looks for an heir in the outback, while a woman who has inherited comes to rule over a station.LiteraturePublic domain
• CinemaThe Story of the Kelly GangCharles Tait · 1906The Kelly brothers' gang, from the first shoot-out to the bank raids, told from the outlaws' side.Cinema
• NarrativeWe of the Never NeverJeannie Gunn · 1908A young bride from Melbourne follows her husband to the Far North, to an isolated cattle station.Literature
• PoetryMy CountryDorothea MacKellar · 1911A poem that begins by loving another country, then turns back to a hard, scorched and boundless land.Literature
• PoetryThe Songs of a Sentimental BlokeC. J. Dennis · 1915A suburban hooligan falls in love and tells it all himself, in the slang of his neighbourhood.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelAustralia FelixHenry Handel Richardson · 1917An Irish doctor keeps a shop among the gold diggers, then grows rich without ever feeling at home.LiteraturePublic domain
• CinemaThe Sentimental BlokeRaymond Longford · 1919A lout from Woolloomooloo comes out of prison and tries to settle down for the sake of a working girl who will not compromise.Cinema
• TheatreThe Touch of SilkBetty Roland · 1928A Frenchwoman married to a soldier returned from the war suffocates in a small town that keeps watch over her.Literature
• NovelThe House of CainArthur William Upfield · 1928At the far end of the desert, a refuge of untraceable murderers, and two brothers who set out to find a fugitive there.Literature
• NovelRalph Rashleigh; or, The Life of an ExileJames Tucker · 1929A transported Londoner tells the story of the Australian penal colony from the inside, from 1825 to 1844 according to the subtitle of one edition.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelRedheapNorman Lindsay · 1930A provincial town at the end of the nineteenth century, where people lie about everything, and first of all about what the boys get up to.Literature
• CinemaFellersAustin Fay and Arthur Higgins · 1930Three Australian horsemen in Palestine, each enlisted for a reason he keeps to himself.Cinema
• CinemaOn Our SelectionKen G. Hall · 1932A family of small settlers in Queensland, ruined by drought and harassed by a rich neighbour.Cinema
• NovelSeven Poor Men of SydneyChristina Stead · 1934Seven penniless young people remake the world until morning, in a port where hiring has disappeared.Literature
• CinemaThe Flying DoctorMiles Mander · 1936A vagabond who flees his wedding, a doctor who joins the flying doctors, and the outback between them.Cinema
• TheatreDaybreakCatherine Shepherd · 1938A settler's daughter in love with a reformer, facing an inflexible father, in the Hobart of the convicts.Literature
• PoetryFive Bells: XX PoemsKenneth Slessor · 1939Five bells struck on a ship, and a man who tries to bring a drowned man back by memory alone.Literature
• TheatreThe Fire on the SnowDouglas Stewart · 1941Five explorers in the ice of Antarctica, and a voice that comments on their route like an ancient chorus.Literature
• NovelThe Harp in the SouthRuth Park · 1948A slum district of Sydney, an Irish family, and a young girl whom the street is going to catch up with.Literature
• PoetryWoman to ManJudith Wright · 1949A woman speaks of the body, of what is made within it, and of the people one passes without seeing.Literature
• PoetryBetween Two TidesR. D. FitzGerald · 1952A young English sailor spared in a massacre lives for four years among those who killed his own people.Literature
• PoetryFourteen Men: VersesMary Gilmore · 1954The last poems of a very old woman, on what the colony destroyed and on the dead whom no one counted.Literature
• PoetryThe Wandering IslandsAlec Derwent Hope · 1955A prosody from another age applied to eroticism, myth and satire, with a coldness that disconcerts.Literature
• CinemaJeddaCharles Chauvel · 1955An Aboriginal orphan raised among white people, abducted by a man from the bush and pursued all the way to his home.Cinema
• NarrativeThey're a Weird MobNino Culotta · 1957An Italian immigrant arrives in Sydney with impeccable English, helpless before the first sentence addressed to him.Literature
• PoetryThe Music of DivisionChris Wallace-Crabbe · 1959A poetry of the city, ironic and argumentative, in which the ordinary citizen collides with the course of the world.Literature
• PoetryMasters in IsraelVincent Buckley · 1961Poems of university life, family and Ireland, shot through with the question of faith.Literature
• NovelThe Shoes of the FishermanMorris West · 1963A bishop released from the Soviet camps is elected pope, in a world threatened by nuclear war.Literature
• EssayThe Lucky CountryDonald Horne · 1964A country that its resources have enriched without effort, and which that very ease leaves exposed.Literature
• NovelWild Cat FallingMudrooroo · 1965A boy leaves prison, goes back to his mother, and finds his place on neither side.Literature
• TheatreThis Old Man Comes Rolling HomeDorothy Hewett · 1967A working-class family in Redfern close to going under, where the children repeat the parents' mistakes.Literature
• PoetryMy People: A Kath Walker CollectionOodgeroo Noonuccal · 1970Platform poems, and an inventory of what a people has been stripped of.Literature
• PoetryParallaxJohn Tranter · 1970The same object seen from two places is not the same, and it is the gap that makes the poem.Literature
• NovelThe VivisectorPatrick White · 1970A painter puts everyone who comes near him onto the canvas, without asking their opinion.Literature
• EssayThe Female EunuchGermaine Greer · 1970What girls are taught to be is described there as an amputation, and the book asks what remains of them.Literature
• CinemaWalkaboutNicolas Roeg · 1971Two city children find themselves alone in the desert and are found by an Aboriginal teenager.Cinema
• CinemaWake in FrightTed Kotcheff · 1971A penniless schoolteacher, trapped in a mining town where people do nothing but drink.Cinema
• CinemaStorkTim Burstall · 1971A boy who is too tall and too loud moves into a shared house in Melbourne and upsets everything there.Cinema
• TheatreDon's PartyDavid Williamson · 1971Friends gather to celebrate an election victory that slips away from them, and the evening degenerates.Literature
• CinemaThe Adventures of Barry McKenzieBruce Beresford · 1972A coarse Australian arrives in London to improve himself and finds only occasions to drink.Cinema
• CinemaPicnic at Hanging RockPeter Weir · 1975Boarding-school girls climb up to explore a rock one afternoon in 1900, and not all of them are seen again.Cinema
• CinemaSunday Too Far AwayKen Hannam · 1975Sheep shearers on a remote station, caught between rivalry, rum and the union, on the eve of a strike.Cinema
• CinemaCaddieDonald Crombie · 1976A woman leaves her husband, works as a barmaid to support herself and gets through the Depression with two children.Cinema
• NovelMonkey GripHelen Garner · 1977A woman alone with her daughter, in a Melbourne community, and a man who leaves and comes back.Literature
• CinemaThe Picture Show ManJohn Power · 1977A man brings the cinema to the countryside, until a better-equipped competitor takes his dates.Cinema
• NovelAn Imaginary LifeDavid Malouf · 1978A poet in exile among people whose language he does not know, and a boy of the woods whom he wants to teach to speak.Literature
• NovelThe Year of Living DangerouslyC. J. Koch · 1978A newly arrived correspondent in Jakarta, guided by a photographer who knows everything about everyone.Literature
• CinemaThe Chant of Jimmie BlacksmithFred Schepisi · 1978A young man of mixed descent raised at the rectory discovers that his pay depends on the goodwill of those who employ him.Cinema
• CinemaMy Brilliant CareerGillian Armstrong · 1979A rough-edged girl without a dowry is asked in marriage by a wealthy neighbour, and she wants something else.Cinema
• CinemaMad MaxGeorge Miller · 1979A highway patrol officer wants to leave the job, and the gang he had been pursuing turns on his family.Cinema
• CinemaManganinnieJohn Honey · 1980An Aboriginal woman separated from her people takes in a lost white child and walks with her across the island.Cinema
• CinemaStirStephen Wallace · 1980A prisoner who informed on the guards returns to their prison, where the tension rises day by day.Cinema
• NovelBlissPeter Carey · 1981An advertising man who has come back from a brief death discovers that his ordinary life resembles hell.Literature
• CinemaWrong Side of the RoadNed Lander · 1981A tour by Aboriginal musicians, between packed halls, police checks and closed doors.Cinema
• CinemaWinter of Our DreamsJohn Duigan · 1981An established bookseller learns of the death of a childhood friend and meets a girl who had known her.Cinema
• TheatreThe DreamersJack Davis · 1982A Noongar family under one roof, and an old uncle who moves away from the town where they live.Literature
• NovelSchindler's ArkThomas Keneally · 1982An industrialist and Nazi party member who uses corruption to keep his Jewish workers with him.Literature
• CinemaLonely HeartsPaul Cox · 1982A lonely piano tuner and a reserved young woman meet through a matchmaking agency.Cinema
• CinemaSquizzy TaylorKevin Dobson · 1982A small-time criminal from Melbourne becomes the best-known figure of the underworld and cultivates his legend.Cinema
• CinemaWe of the Never NeverIgor Auzins · 1982A town woman settles on a property in the Far North, where nobody wants her.Cinema
• CinemaLousy Little SixpenceAlec Morgan · 1983Elders recount how they were taken from their families, placed as domestic servants and denied their wages.Cinema
• CinemaCareful, He Might Hear YouCarl Schultz · 1983Two aunts claim the same child, one with money, the other with affection.Cinema
• CinemaPhar LapSimon Wincer · 1983A worthless colt starts winning everything, just as the country is on its knees.Cinema
• CinemaAnnie's Coming OutGil Brealey · 1984A teenage girl thought to be intellectually disabled makes herself understood through an alphabet, and her therapist wants to get her out of the institution where she lives.Cinema
• CinemaStrikeboundRichard Lowenstein · 1984Miners shut themselves in the mine over their wages, while their wives organise on the surface.Cinema
• TheatreThe Golden AgeLouis Nowra · 1985Two explorers come upon a forgotten community deep in Tasmania and bring it back to the city.Literature
• CinemaBurke & WillsGraeme Clifford · 1985An expedition sets out to cross the continent amid fanfare, led by a stubborn leader who refuses all help.Cinema
• CinemaHalf LifeDennis O'Rourke · 1985Radioactive fallout covers a Pacific atoll, and children play in it.Cinema
• CinemaUnfinished BusinessBob Ellis · 1985She finds him again after fifteen years because she wants a child by him, and she loves her husband.Cinema
• NovelThe WellElizabeth Jolley · 1986Two women on an isolated farm, a collision in the night, and a voice rising from the bottom of a well.Literature
• CinemaBacklashBill Bennett · 1986Two policemen escort a young woman prisoner, and the desert holds all three of them.Cinema
• CinemaShort ChangedGeorge Ogilvie · 1986An Aboriginal father wants to get to know the son who was taken from him, and the child's grandfather refuses him.Cinema
• CinemaGhosts... of the Civil DeadJohn Hillcoat · 1988In a new, isolated prison, the inmates' privileges are withdrawn without ever being told why.Cinema
• NovelCaprice: A Stockman's DaughterDoris Pilkington Garimara · 1991A woman raised far from her kin traces the thread of her family back from her grandmother to her mother.Literature
• NovelCloudstreetTim Winton · 1991Two families with nothing in common share a large house in Perth for twenty years.Literature
• CinemaBabeChris Noonan · 1995A piglet taken in on a farm learns the work of the dogs that guard the sheep.Cinema
• CinemaShineScott Hicks · 1996A young prodigy pianist grows up under the thumb of a father who wants to decide everything for him.Cinema
• PoetryFredy NeptuneLes Murray · 1998A German-Australian sailor, rendered insensible after a massacre, lives through the first half of the century.Literature

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