Brisbane -- Ballads and popular verse / Edgar Waters -- The Bulletin, J.F. Archibald and A.G. Stephens / S.E. Lee -- Henry Lawson / Manning Clark -- Joseph Furphy / H.J. Oliver -- Christopher Brennan / G.A. Wilkes -- Henry Handel Richardson / Leonie Kramer -- Kenneth Slessor and the powers of language / Chris Wallace-Crabbe -- Themes in Judith Wright's poetry / Rodney Hall -- Art and the Academy : the achievement of A.D. Hope / R.F. Brissenden -- Douglas Stewart / James McAuley -- The landscape of the heart / David Bradley -- The novels of Patrick White / Brian Kiernan -- The novels of Christina Stead / Clement Semmler -- Francis Webb / David Campbell -- Martin Boyd / Dorothy Green.

Social setting - Australian poetry - Australian fiction - Australian drama - Ballads and popular verse; The Bulletin - Henry Lawson - Joseph Furphy - Christopher Brennan - Henry Handel Richardson - Kenneth Slessor - Judith Wright - Patrick White - Christina Stead - Martin Boyd.