Inside the book
Table of contents
Robbery Under Arms by Rolf Boldrewood (1826-1915)
Such is Life by Joseph Furphy (1843-1912)
'The Sick Stockrider' by Adam Lindsay Gordon (1883-1870)
His Natural Life by Marcus Clarke (1846-1881)
'The Chosen Vessel' by Barbara Baynton (1857-1929)
'The Man From Snowy River' by Banjo Paterson (1864-1941)
'Nationality' by Mary Gilmore (1865-1962)
'The Drover's Wife' by Henry Lawson (1867-1922)
'Lilith' by Christopher Brennan (1870-1932)
Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner (1870-1958)
The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson (1870-1946)
'The Gentle Water Bird' by John Shaw Neilson (1872-1942)
My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin (1879-1954)
The Magic Pudding by Norman Lindsay (1879-1969)
Coonardoo by Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883-1969)
10 for 66 and all that by Arthur Mailey (1886-1967)
Lucinda Brayford by Martin Boyd (1893-1972)
A Fortunate Life by AB Facey (1894-1982)
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay (1896-1984)
'Five Bells' by Kenneth Slessor
Capricornia by Xavier Herbert
The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
The Pea-pickers by Eve Langley
'A Letter from Rome' by AD Hope
Voss by Patrick White
My Brother Jack by George Johnston
Woman to Child' by Judith Wright
Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson
Power Without Glory by Frank Hardy
'No More Boomerang' by Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Storm Boy by Colin Thiele
The Lucky Country by Donald Horne
Milk and Honey by Elizabeth Jolley
The Acolyte by Thea Astley
The Glass Canoe by David Ireland
The Tyranny of Distance by Geoffrey Blainey
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
An Imaginary Life by David Malouf
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally
Visitants by Randolph Stow
Grand Days by Frank Moorhouse
'The Buladelah-Taree Holiday Song Cycle' by Les Murray
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
The Plains by Gerald Murnane
Monkey Grip by Helen Garner
Our Sunshine by Robert Drewe
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
Lilian’s Story by Kate Grenville
My Place by Sally Morgan
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton