‘And the sun sank again on the grand Australian bush – the nurse and tutor of eccentric minds, the home of the weird, and of much that is different from things in other lands.’
Max Harris
Harold Stewart
Cynthia Reed Nolan
Dymphna Cusack
Jack Davis
Frank Hardy
Mudrooroo
Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Mary Durack
Alice Pung
Dorothy Hewett
Banjo Paterson
Arthur Upfield
Nene Gare
Gig Ryan
Tim Winton
Tony Birch
Claire G. Coleman
Kim Scott
J. M. Coetzee
Manning Clark
Peter Cowan
Patrick White
Ruth Park
Miles Franklin
George Johnston
Helen Garner
Katharine Prichard
Charmian Clift
Martin Boyd
Anna Couani
Christina Stead
Nam Le
David Unaipon
Ouyang Yu
Barbara Baynton
Rose Quong
Dorothea Mackellar
Will Dyson
Shaun Tan
Nick Cave
Kate Jennings
Bobbi Sykes
Germaine Greer
Eleanor Dark
Xavier Herbert
Hal Porter
Barry Humphries
Henry Lawson
Kylie Tennant
Vicki Viidikas
David Malouf
Kerry Greenwood
Henry Kendall
Randolph Stow
Elizabeth Riddell
Michael Wilding
Percy Leason
Peter Temple
Maryam Azam
Dorothy Porter
Jean Devanny
The above quote is by Henry Lawson and appears in his short story 'The Bush Undertaker', 1892.