Fair Share; QE42 by Judith Brett literary The highlights of his wide-ranging

The highlights of his wide-ranging and always illuminating work are selected here by Andrea Gaynor

The demolition firm of Whelan the Wrecker was a Melbourne institution for a hundred years (1892-1992)

'An imagist without a rival in the English-speaking world

its cultures and its peoples

But passivity does not reduce the threat of another outbreak

Fair Share; QE42 by Judith Brett literary The highlights of his wide-rangingOnce the country believed itself to be the true face of Australia: sunburnt men and capable women raising crops and children, enduring isolation and a fickle environment, carrying the nation on their sturdy backs. For almost 200 years after white settlement began, city Australia needed the country: to feed it, to earn its export income, to fill the empty land, to provide it with distinctive images of the nation being built in the great south land. But