This site has been set up as part of a larger project defining Australian Literary Journalism and tracing its history through the colonial period. The writers represented are a mere sampling of those writing before Federation in 1901.
This site was originally co-authored by Willa McDonald, Bunty Avieson and Kerrie Davies for the Dept of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature (MCCALL) at Macquarie University. It was launched under the auspices of the university’s Centre for Media History in February, 2015.
Its preparation was part of a research project that has culminated in the book Literary Journalism in Colonial Australia by Willa, published by Palgrave Macmillan in October 2023.
If you have any suggestions to improve or add to the content of this site, please contact willa.mcdonald@mq.edu.au.
This book was written on Gadigal land violently taken by the British and never ceded. We pay our respects to the First Nations peoples who have been custodians of Country across this continent for over 65,000 years — from long before the “killing times” to the present.