The Golden Age (Joan London): Artists and Poets

1901-1971
Slessor, known as one of the first truly Australian poets, began publishing his poetry in the 1920's in Vision. These early poems illustrated a stylistic movement from Australian bush poetry to a Nietzschean unrestrained joy in beauty and life. The early poems revealed an antimodernist, anti-intellectual paganism.

From the Australian Dictionary of Biography

Details Slessor's timeline as a war correspondenrt

The 1950s was a time of renewed prosperity after the trauma of War and economic Depression. Young radical students, like Olsen, were keen to stake their claim as leaders of the avant garde. In 1953 he led a student demonstration against the conservative Trustees of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, and was quoted in the press criticising the awarding of the Archibald Prize to William Dargie.

From the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

Roland Robinson was a 20th century Australian writer of Irish origin who was honoured with the prestigious Order of Australia for his literary efforts. As well as enjoying a great reputation as a poet he was also an accomplished story teller, often relating Aboriginal tales and captivating his audiences in the area of Lake Macquarie which is where he lived out his later years.