Dorothea Mackellar’s poem from 1908, My Country, is famous in Australia despite its outmoded colonial assumptions. Many people are able to quote its lines about ragged mountain ranges, droughts and ...

There are a few intrepid small presses that continue to publish Australian poetry, such as Puncher & Wattmann, which has now published a hefty anthology of contemporary Australian poetry edited by ...

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Robert Gray, one of Australia’s greatest poets, has died. He was regarded as an outstanding landscape poet and, alongside Les ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In the 1890s, friendly acquaintances Henry Lawson and "Banjo" Paterson earned a penny a line for their staged verse combat in The ...

Clive Palmer is a billionaire mining magnate and former MP He is the Australian mining tycoon who opened a dinosaur theme park, vowed to build a replica Titanic, and spent three years as a maverick MP ...

Luckily, in Jamie Grant’s ninth collection, Glass on the Chimney (Hardie Grant, 142pp, $24.95), there are quite a few rallies where the serves are accurate and the net play convincing. There is also a ...

Contemporary Australian poetry is such a rich field, and so unjustly neglected, I find it hard to narrow these recommendations down, so just think of this as an introductory sampler. Hopefully all the ...

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John Kinsella publishes with UWAP. He receives royalties from the sale of his UWAP books. He is a Professor in the Humanities at Curtin University. I start with a disclaimer: I am a UWA Publishing ...

Les Murray called himself a "subhuman redneck", but the Australian poet and writer was also "the patron saint of misfits" who sang the nation's landscape, culture and vernacular into being, writes ...

He is the Australian mining tycoon who opened a dinosaur theme park, vowed to build a replica Titanic, and spent three years as a maverick MP. But Clive Palmer, who retired from politics last year, is ...