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issuevoter Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9200 The Great State of Mind Gender:	Re: Australian classics Reply #15 - Nov 26^th, 2016 at 9:17am I agree with Bogarde that to deserve the category of a classic, a work needs to have stood the test of time. Contemporary popularity is not a sure-fire indication. I love Tim Winton's writing, but I don't think his books have been around long enough.
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Reply #16 - Nov 26^th, 2016 at 9:56am

issuevoter wrote on Nov 26^th, 2016 at 9:17am:

I agree with Bogarde that to deserve the category of a classic, a work needs to have stood the test of time. Contemporary popularity is not a sure-fire indication. I love Tim Winton's writing, but I don't think his books have been around long enough.

A couple of his novels are over 30 years old.

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Gordon Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 20221 Gordon Gender:	Re: Australian classics Reply #17 - Nov 26^th, 2016 at 7:06pm For Greggy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puberty_Blues_(novel)
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greggerypeccary Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 131469 Gender:	Re: Australian classics Reply #18 - Nov 26^th, 2016 at 7:08pm Gordon wrote on Nov 26^th, 2016 at 7:06pm: For Greggy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puberty_Blues_(novel) One of my faves. I had a Sandman when I was 17. Ah, good times
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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: Australian classics Reply #19 - Dec 17^th, 2016 at 3:11pm One we left out was George Johnston's "My Brother Jack" from the 1960s. It won the Miles Franklin Award and I think the second part of the trilogy also won the award.
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bogarde73 Gold Member Offline Anti-Global & Contra Mundum Posts: 18443 Gender:	Re: Australian classics Reply #20 - Dec 30^th, 2016 at 1:39pm Another author who probably deserves a place is Randolph Stow. I think of him for some reason as a James Dean of Australian literature. His work is very evocative of the landscape. I know I read Merry-go-round in the Sea, but I can't remember what the other one was I read.
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Annie Anthrax Gold Member Offline Take the plan, spin it sideways Posts: 7057 Gender:	Re: Australian classics Reply #21 - Mar 11^th, 2017 at 9:47pm Prelude to Christopher by Eleanor Dark. Wake in Fright by Kenneth Cook
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Mr Hammer Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 25212 Gender:	Re: Australian classics Reply #22 - Mar 12^th, 2017 at 8:37am I know someones already mentioned it, but 'For the term of his natural life', hands down. 'The chant of Jimmie Blacksmith'.
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issuevoter Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9200 The Great State of Mind Gender:	Re: Australian classics Reply #23 - Mar 15^th, 2017 at 12:26pm While it is understandably full of Victorian morality, and plain old fashioned "Good and Bad," Robbery Under Arms by Ralph Boldrewood (T A Browne) would have to be on the list of Australian Classics.
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Reply #24 - Mar 17^th, 2017 at 1:55pm

AiA wrote on Nov 25^th, 2016 at 12:50pm:

What Australian novel(s) marks the beginning of Australian literature, that is, literature that is uniquely Australian?

That's a good question.

Wikipedia says: "The first novel to be published in Australia was a crime novel, Quintus Servinton: A Tale founded upon Incidents of Real Occurrence[12][13] by Henry Savery published in Hobart in 1830."

But a more pertinent question might be: Which early Australian authors are still remembered and read?
Wiki refers to these: Writers such as Rolf Boldrewood (Robbery Under Arms), Marcus Clarke (For the Term of His Natural Life), Henry Handel Richardson (The Fortunes of Richard Mahony)
To that you'd have to add the short stories of Henry Lawson.

I've not read the first two but I have read the full trilogy of HHR, which includes quite a bit on the gold diggings.

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