Ernestine Hill, The Great Australian Loneliness (review)
It was in July, 1930, that I first set out, a wandering ‘copy boy’ with swag and typewriter, to find what lay beyond the railway lines. Across the painted deserts and the pearling seas
Rosa Praed, The Sea-birds’ Message (short story)
by Mrs Campbell Praed (1851-1935) There is a great lake in one of the inland districts of Northern Australia. It is closed in by green ranges, which slope down to a beach of silvery sand. It has no outlet for its waters, which are salt as the sea. Pelicans and wild...
R McKay Tully, The Power of a Child (short story)
by R McKay Tully Having given up working the land after many years of drought, a man loses his way in the outback. This short story first appeared in 1903 in The Dawn. “High noon, not a cloud in the sky,” quoted Ted Morris as he staggered out of the dense scrub...
