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This page gives a chronological list of years in Australian literature (descending order), with notable publications and events listed with their respective years. The time covered in individual years covers the period of European settlement of the country.
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21st century
2020s
- 2024 in Australian literature: Death of Marion Halligan
- 2023 in Australian literature: Death of Andrew Burke, Gabrielle Carey, Ron Pretty, John Tranter
- 2022 in Australian literature: Death of Jordie Albiston, Frank Moorhouse, David Ireland, Robert Adamson; Cold Enough for Snow – Jessica Au; Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens – Shankari Chandran
- 2021 in Australian literature: Death of Kate Jennings, Tim Thorne; Bodies of Light – Jennifer Down
- 2020 in Australian literature: Death of Bruce Dawe, Elizabeth Harrower; The Labyrinth – Amanda Lohrey
2010s
- 2019 in Australian literature: Death of Andrew McGahan, Les Murray, Clive James; The Yield – Tara June Winch
- 2018 in Australian literature: Death of Peter Temple, Peter Corris; Boy Swallows Universe — Trent Dalton; Too Much Lip – Melissa Lucashenko
- 2017 in Australian literature: Death of Peter Luck; The Life to Come – Michelle de Kretser
- Extinctions – Josephine Wilson
- 2015 in Australian literature: Death of Veronica Brady, Colleen McCullough; Black Rock White City – A. S. Patrić; The Natural Way of Things – Charlotte Wood; Life or Death — Michael Robotham wins the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger award (UK)
- Man Booker Prize
- All The Birds, Singing – Evie Wyld
- 2012 in Australian literature: Death of Bryce Courtenay, Rosemary Dobson, Max Fatchen, Robert Hughes;; The Chemistry of Tears – Peter Carey; Questions of Travel – Michelle de Kretser; The Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion; The Hanging Garden – Patrick White
- 2010 in Australian literature: Death of Jessica Anderson, Ruth Park, Peter Porter, David Rowbotham, Patricia Wrightson; Glenda Guest receives the Commonwealth Writers Prize best first book; Beautiful Malice – Rebecca James; That Deadman Dance – Kim Scott; Bereft – Chris Womersley
2000s
- 2009 in Australian literature: Parrot and Olivier in America – Peter Carey; Ransom – David Malouf; Truth – Peter Temple; The Bath Fugues – Brian Castro
- 2008 in Australian literature: Death of Dorothy Porter, Ivan Southall, Eleanor Spence; The Spare Room – Helen Garner; The Slap – Christos Tsiolkas; Breath – Tim Winton; Sonya Hartnett receives the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
- Duncan Lawrie Daggeraward (UK)
- 2006 in Australian literature: Death of Colin Thiele; The Garden Book – Brian Castro; The Arrival – Shaun Tan; Carpentaria – Alexis Wright
- Tom Keneally; The Ballad of Desmond Kale – Roger McDonald
- 2004 in Australian literature: Death of Thea Astley; Sixty Lights – Gail Jones; The White Earth – Andrew McGahan
- (USA)
- 2002 in Australian literature: Death of Dorothy Hewett; Moral Hazard – Kate Jennings; Journey to the Stone Country – Alex Miller
- Man Booker Prize; Gould's Book of Fish – Richard Flanagan; Stravinsky's Lunch – Drusilla Modjeska; Dirt Music – Tim Winton
- 2000 in Australian literature: Death of A. D. Hope, Judith Wright; The Day We Had Hitler Home – Rodney Hall; Dark Palace – Frank Moorhouse
20th century
1990s
- Benang – Kim Scott
- Raymond Gaita; Fredy Neptune – Les Murray
- 1997 in Australian literature: Death of Dal Stivens, George Turner; The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768–71 – Joseph Banks; Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
- The Glade within the Grove – David Foster; Remembering Babylon – David Malouf wins the International Dublin Literary Award; Subhuman Redneck Poems – Les Murray
- 1995 in Australian literature: Death of Gwen Harwood; The First Stone – Helen Garner; Highways to a War – Christopher Koch
- 1993 in Australian literature: Death of Nancy Keesing; The Grisly Wife – Rodney Hall; Grand Days – Frank Moorhouse; Christina Stead: A Biography – Hazel Rowley
- 1992 in Australian literature: Honk If You Are Jesus – Peter Goldsworthy; Praise – Andrew McGahan; Looking for Alibrandi – Melina Marchetta; The Ancestor Game – Alex Miller
- 1991 in Australian literature: Death of Manning Clark; Our Sunshine – Robert Drewe; Patrick White: A Life – David Marr; Cloudstreet – Tim Winton
- 1990 in Australian literature: Death of Patrick White; Cabin Fever – Elizabeth Jolley; The Great World – David Malouf
1980s
- 1989 in Australian literature: The Power of One – Bryce Courtenay; Oceana Fine – Tom Flood; Maestro – Peter Goldsworthy; I for Isobel – Amy Witting
- Man Booker Prize
- 1987 in Australian literature: Dancing on Coral – Glenda Adams; The Songlines – Bruce Chatwin; Louisa – Brian Matthews; My Place – Sally Morgan; The Sea and Summer – George Turner; Emerald City – David Williamson
- 1986 in Australian literature: The Well – Elizabeth Jolley; Julia Paradise – Rod Jones; The Fatal Shore – Robert Hughes
- 1985 in Australian literature: Lilian's Story – Kate Grenville; The Doubleman – Christopher Koch
- 1984 in Australian literature: Death of Xavier Herbert; Archimedes and the Seagle — David Ireland; Milk and Honey – Elizabeth Jolley; Shallows – Tim Winton
- 1983 in Australian literature: Death of Christina Stead, Alan Moorehead; Possum Magic – Mem Fox
- Man Booker Prize; The Plains – Gerald Murnane
- 1981 in Australian literature: Death of Dymphna Cusack; Bliss – Peter Carey; A Fortunate Life – Albert Facey
- 1980 in Australian literature: The Impersonators – Jessica Anderson; The Dying Trade – Peter Corris; Tracks – Robyn Davidson; The Transit of Venus – Shirley Hazzard; Unreliable Memoirs – Clive James; The Boys Who Stole the Funeral – Les Murray
1970s
- 1979 in Australian literature: Death of David Campbell, Ion Idriess; A Woman of the Future – David Ireland; The Visitants – Randolph Stow
- 1977 in Australian literature: Monkey Grip – Helen Garner; The Thorn Birds – Colleen McCullough; Swords and Crowns and Rings – Ruth Park; The Club – David Williamson
- 1976 in Australian literature: Death of James McAuley; The Glass Canoe – David Ireland; "The Buladelah-Taree Holiday Song Cycle" – Les Murray;
- 1975 in Australian literature: Poor Fellow My Country – Xavier Herbert; Gossip from the Forest – Thomas Keneally
- 1974 in Australian literature: Death of Eve Langley; The Age Book of the Year Awards awarded for the first time; Peter's Pence – Jon Cleary; The Mango Tree – Ronald McKie; Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems – David Malouf
- 1973 in Australian literature: Patrick White is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; The Breaker – Kit Denton; The Nargun and the Stars – Patricia Wrightson
- Tom Keneally
- 1971 in Australian literature: Death of Kenneth Slessor; Josh – Ivan Southall wins the Carnegie Medal (UK); The Unknown Industrial Prisoner – David Ireland; A Cartload of Clay – George Johnston; Don's Party – David Williamson
- 1970 in Australian literature: Death of Nan Chauncy, George Johnston; The Female Eunuch – Germaine Greer; A Horse of Air – Dal Stivens; The Vivisector – Patrick White
1960s
- 1969 in Australian literature: Death of Charmian Clift, Norman Lindsay, Katharine Susannah Prichard; Clean Straw for Nothing – George Johnston
- Tom Keneally
- Tom Keneally; Picnic at Hanging Rock – Joan Lindsay
- 1966 in Australian literature: Death of Eric Lambert; The Tyranny of Distance – Geoffrey Blainey; Trap – Peter Mathers; "No More Boomerang" – Oodgeroo Noonuccal; The Solid Mandala – Patrick White
- 1965 in Australian literature: The Slow Natives – Thea Astley; The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea – Randolph Stow; The Ambassador – Morris West
- 1964 in Australian literature: Death of Zora Cross; The Lucky Country – Donald Horne; My Brother Jack – George Johnston; We Are Going – Oodgeroo Noonuccal
- Will H. Ogilvie; Careful, He Might Hear You – Sumner Locke Elliott; Storm Boy – Colin Thiele; The Shoes of the Fisherman – Morris West
- John Morrison; The Cupboard Under the Stairs – George Turner
- 1961 in Australian literature: Death of Jeannie Gunn; Masters in Israel - Vincent Buckley; Wake in Fright – Kenneth Cook; Sun on the Stubble – Colin Thiele; Riders in the Chariot – Patrick White
- 1960 in Australian literature: Death of Nevil Shute; First Adelaide Writers' Week held; A Descant for Gossips – Thea Astley; The Irishman – Elizabeth O'Conner; The One Day of the Year – Alan Seymour
1950s
- 1959 in Australian literature: Death of Vance Palmer; Kings in Grass Castles – Mary Durack; The Big Fellow – Vance Palmer; The Devil's Advocate – Morris West
- 1957 in Australian literature: Tiger in the Bush – Nan Chauncy; On the Beach – Nevil Shute; Voss – Patrick White
- 1956 in Australian literature: The Brown Land was Green – Mavis Thorpe Clark; Beyond the Black Stump – Nevil Shute
- 1954 in Australian literature: Death of Miles Franklin; White Topee – Eve Langley; "At Cooloolah" – Judith Wright
- 1953 in Australian literature: The Big Chariot – Charmian Clift and George Johnston; Southern Steel – Dymphna Cusack; "Old Botany Bay" – Mary Gilmore
- 1952 in Australian literature: The Cardboard Crown – Martin Boyd; The Sundowners – Jon Cleary
- Daisy Bates; Come In Spinner – Dymphna Cusack & Florence James; The Great South Land: An Epic Poem – Rex Ingamells
- 1950 in Australian literature: Farewell to Cricket – Don Bradman; Power Without Glory – Frank Hardy; A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
1940s
- 1949 in Australian literature: Death of Roderic Quinn; Poor Man's Orange – Ruth Park; Woman to Man - Judith Wright
- 1948 in Australian literature: The Harp in the South – Ruth Park; Golden Miles – Katharine Susannah Prichard; The Aunt's Story – Patrick White
- 1947 in Australian literature: Death of Lennie Lower; Grace Leven Prize for Poetry is awarded for the first time; Tomorrow and Tomorrow – M. Barnard Eldershaw
- 1946 in Australian literature: Death of Henry Handel Richardson; Lucinda Brayford – Martin Boyd; My Career Goes Bung – Miles Franklin; "Woman to Child" – Judith Wright
- 1945 in Australian literature: The Cousin from Fiji – Norman Lindsay; "The Tomb of Lt. John Learmonth, AIF" – J. S. Manifold
- Ern Malley poems first published; "Beach Burial" – Kenneth Slessor; For Love Alone – Christina Stead; "Bullocky" – Judith Wright
- 1943 in Australian literature: Death of Louis Esson; Ride on Stranger – Kylie Tennant; "South of My Days" – Judith Wright
- 1941 in Australian literature: Death of Banjo Paterson; The Battlers – Kylie Tennant
- 1940 in Australian literature: Meanjin magazine publishes its first issue; "No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest" – Mary Gilmore; The Man Who Loved Children – Christina Stead
1930s
- Happy Valley – Patrick White
- Seaforth Mackenzie; Under Capricorn – Helen Simpson
- 1936 in Australian literature: Death of Arthur Henry Adams; Return to Coolami – Eleanor Dark; All That Swagger – Miles Franklin
- 1935 in Australian literature: Death of Mabel Forrest, Louise Mack, Frederick Manning; Earth's Quality – Winifred Birkett; The Lemon Farm – Martin Boyd; The Singing Garden – C. J. Dennis
- 1934 in Australian literature: Prelude to Christopher – Eleanor Dark; Mary Poppins – P. L. Travers
- G. B. Lancaster; Blinky Bill – Dorothy Wall
- 1932 in Australian literature: Death of Christopher Brennan, Fergus Hume; Flesh in Armour – Leonard Mann
- 1931 in Australian literature: Death of Edward Dyson; Man-Shy – Frank Dalby Davison; Back to Bool Bool – Miles Franklin; "Five Visions of Captain Cook" – Kenneth Slessor
1920s
- Arthur H. Adams; Ultima Thule – Henry Handel Richardson
- 1928 in Australian literature: ALS Gold Medal is awarded for the first time; The Montfords – Martin Boyd; Up the Country – Miles Franklin; Coonardoo – Katharine Susannah Prichard; "Choker's Lane" – Kenneth Slessor
- 1927 in Australian literature: "Happiness" – Katharine Susannah Prichard; "Country Towns" – Kenneth Slessor
- John Shaw Neilson
- 1925 in Australian literature: The Way Home – Henry Handel Richardson
- 1924 in Australian literature: The Boy in the Bush – D. H. Lawrence and M. L. Skinner
- 1923 in Australian literature: Kangaroo – D. H. Lawrence
- John Shaw Neilson; "Nuremberg" – Kenneth Slessor
- John O'Brien
- 1920 in Australian literature: "The Farmer Remembers the Somme" – Vance Palmer
1910s
- Arthur J Rees
- 1918 in Australian literature: Sally: The Tale of a Currency Lass – J. H. M. Abbott; Tales of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie: Their Wonderful Adventures – May Gibbs; The Magic Pudding – Norman Lindsay; The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse — Walter Murdoch
- 1917 in Australian literature: Death of Sumner Locke; Songs of Love and Life – Zora Cross; Songs of a Campaign – Leon Gellert; Australia Felix – Henry Handel Richardson
- 1916 in Australian literature: The Moods of Ginger Mick – C. J. Dennis; Samaritan Mary – Sumner Locke
- Rolf Boldrewood; The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke – C. J. Dennis
- John Shaw Neilson
- 1913 in Australian literature: Poems: 1913 – Christopher Brennan; "The Robe of Grass" – John Le Gay Brereton; Backblock Ballads and Other Verses – C. J. Dennis; A Curate in Bohemia – Norman Lindsay
- 1912 in Australian literature: Death of Joseph Furphy; The Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon – Adam Lindsay Gordon
- 1911 in Australian literature: "A Ballad of Eureka" – Victor Daley; Jonah – Louis Stone
- 1910 in Australian literature: Death of Mary Fortune; The Getting of Wisdom – Henry Handel Richardson
1900s
- John Shaw Neilson; Some Everyday Folk and Dawn – Miles Franklin
- 1908 in Australian literature: "The Austra-laise" – C. J. Dennis; "My Country" – Dorothea Mackellar
- John Shaw Neilson; An Anthology of Australian Verse – Bertram Stevens
- 1906 in Australian literature: Betty the Scribe – Lilian Turner; "Taking the Old Piano" – Louisa Lawson; The Secret Key and Other Verses – George Essex Evans
- 1905 in Australian literature: Death of Victor Daley; Rigby's Romance – Joseph Furphy; When I Was King and Other Verses – Henry Lawson
- 1904 in Australian literature: Sisters: A Novel – Ada Cambridge; "The Last Review" – Henry Lawson
- 1903 in Australian literature: Thirty Years in Australia – Ada Cambridge; Such Is Life – Joseph Furphy
- 1902 in Australian literature: Death of Breaker Morant; Tommy Cornstalk – J. H. M. Abbott; Bush Studies – Barbara Baynton; An Australian Girl in London – Louise Mack
- 1901 in Australian literature: My Brilliant Career – Miles Franklin; Joe Wilson and His Mates – Henry Lawson
- A. B. Paterson
19th century
1890s
- 1899 in Australian literature: Hits! Skits! and Jingles! – W. T. Goodge; On Our Selection – Steele Rudd
- Will H. Ogilvie; "How M'Dougal Topped the Score" — Thos. E. Spencer
- 1897 in Australian literature: Kirkham's Find – Mary Gaunt; "The Great Australian Adjective" – W. T. Goodge
- 1895 in Australian literature: A Bid for Fortune; Or, Doctor Nikola's Vendetta – Guy Boothby; The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses – Banjo Paterson; "Waltzing Matilda" – Banjo Paterson
- 1894 in Australian literature: In Strange Company – Guy Boothby; Seven Little Australians – Ethel Turner
- 1893 in Australian literature: "The Geebung Polo Club" – Banjo Paterson
- 1892 in Australian literature: Death of Barcroft Boake; The Bulletin Debate, (to 1893); "The Old Bush Road" – Jennings Carmichael; "The Drover's Wife" – Henry Lawson; "The Man from Ironbark" – Banjo Paterson
- 1891 in Australian literature: "Where the Dead Men Lie" – Barcroft Boake; Coo-ee: Tales of Australian Life by Australian Ladies – Harriet Anne Patchett Martin
- 1890 in Australian literature: "The Song of Old Joe Swallow" – Henry Lawson; "The Man from Snowy River" – Banjo Paterson
1880s
- 1889 in Australian literature: "The Teams" – Henry Lawson; "Clancy of the Overflow" – Banjo Paterson
- 1888 in Australian literature: The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 – Ernest Favenc; "Andy's Gone with Cattle" – Henry Lawson; "Faces in the Street" – Henry Lawson
- Rolf Boldrewood
- The Mystery of the Hansom Cab – Fergus Hume; "The Buried Chief" – Henry Parkes; "Bannerman of Dandenong" – Alice Werner
- 1885 in Australian literature: Where the Pelican Builds and Other Poems – Mary Hannay Foott
- Rolf Boldrewood; "Drought and Doctrine" – J. Brunton Stephens
- 1883 in Australian literature: Poems – Charles Harpur
- Rolf Boldrewood
- 1881 in Australian literature: Death of Marcus Clarke; "Where the Pelican Builds" – Mary Hannay Foott; The Austral Months – Henry Kendall
- 1880 in Australian literature: The Bulletin magazine publishes its first issue; Songs from the Mountains – Henry Kendall
1870s
- The Jerilderie Letter – Ned Kelly
- 1878 in Australian literature: "Advance Australia Fair" – Peter Dodds McCormick; "The Dukite Snake" – John Boyle O'Reilly
- Rolf Boldrewood
- 1876 in Australian literature: "Bill the Bullock Driver" – Henry Kendall
- 1875 in Australian literature: The Manor House and Other Poems – Ada Cambridge; "Mooni" – Henry Kendall
- 1874 in Australian literature: "Song of the Shingle Splitters" – Henry Kendall
- 1873 in Australian literature: "The Aurora Australis" – Mary Hannay Foott; By and By: an historical romance of the future – Edward Maitland; The Black Gin and Other Poems – J. Brunton Stephens; Lady Anna – Anthony Trollope
- 1872 in Australian literature: "Sydney Harbour" – Henry Kendall
- 1871 in Australian literature: The Bushranger's Autobiography – Mary Fortune
- 1870 in Australian literature: Death of Adam Lindsay Gordon; For the Term of His Natural Life – Marcus Clarke until 1872; Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes – Adam Lindsay Gordon; "The Sick Stockrider" – Adam Lindsay Gordon
1860s
- 1869 in Australian literature: Leaves from Australian Forests – Henry Kendall
- 1868 in Australian literature: Death of Charles Harpur; "A Death in the Bush" – Henry Kendall
- 1867 in Australian literature: Sea Spray and Smoke Drift – Adam Lindsay Gordon; "Bell-Birds" – Henry Kendall
- 1866 in Australian literature: Hymns on the Holy Communion – Ada Cambridge
- Force and Fraud : A Tale of the Bush – Ellen Davitt; "Cooee" – Mary Fortune; "Daniel Henry Deniehy" – Henry Kendall
- The Australasian newspaper publishes its first issue; Raven Rockstrow or, The Pedlar's Dream: A Romance of Melbourne – Henry Newton Goodrich; "The Last of His Tribe" – Henry Kendall; Mr Hogarth's Will – Catherine Helen Spence
- 1863 in Australian literature: "An Australian Girl's Farewell" – Emma Frances Anderson
- 1862 in Australian literature: Poems and Songs – Henry Kendall
- 1861 in Australian literature: "Fainting by the Way" – Henry Kendall
- 1860 in Australian literature: South Australian Lyrics – C. J. Carleton; Tasmanian Rhymings – John Anthony Moore; Margaret Falconer – Eliza Winstanley
1850s
- 1859 in Australian literature: The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn – Henry Kingsley; Botany Bay, or, True Stories of the Early Days of Australia – John Lang
- 1858 in Australian literature: The Kangaroo Hunters, or, Adventures in the Bush – Anne Bowman; "Aboriginal Death Song" – Charles Harpur; Peter 'Possum's Portfolio – Richard Rowe
- Friedrich Gerstaecker; "A Coast View" — Charles Harpur
- 1856 in Australian literature: "A Storm in the Mountains" – Charles Harpur; It Is Never Too Late to Mend — Charles Reade
- 1855 in Australian literature: The Eureka Stockade – Raffaello Carboni
- 1854 in literature: Lyra Australis, or, Attempts to Sing in a Strange Land – Caroline W. Leakey
- 1853 in literature: The Bushrangers, a Play in Five Acts, and Other Poems – Charles Harpur
- 1852 in literature: Life and Adventures of William Buckley – John Morgan
- G. W. Rusden
- 1850 in literature: "Rhymes to a Lady with a Copy of Love Poems" – Charles Harpur; "Sunrise, from Bourke's Statue" – Henry Parkes
1840s
- 1849 in literature: "Our Coming Countrymen" – Henry Parkes
- 1848 in literature: Lucy Marline, or, The Bush-rangers: A Tale of New South Wales – Louis A. Baker
- 1847 in literature: "The Genius and the Ghost" – William Forster; Australian Sketches – Thomas McCombie
- 1846 in literature: The Bushranger of Van Diemen's Land – Charles Rowcroft
- 1845 in literature: "The Creek of the Four Graves" by Charles Harpur; "A Flight of Wild Ducks" by Charles Harpur; "Songs of the Squatters (No. 2)" – Robert Lowe
- 1844 in literature: "To Mary" – Charles Harpur
- 1843 in literature: "The Aboriginal Father" – Eliza Hamilton Dunlop; "To Charles Harpur" – Henry Parkes
- 1842 in literature: "A War Song for the Nineteenth Century" – Charles Harpur; Stolen Moments – Henry Parkes; Tales of the Colonies – Charles Rowcroft
- 1841 in literature: "My Native Land" – Henry Parkes
- 1840 in literature: "The Convict's Grave" – Henry Parkes
1830s
- 1839 in literature: "A Convict's Tour to Hell" – Francis McNamara
- 1838 in literature: The Guardian: a Tale (by an Australian) – Anna Maria Bunn; "The Aboriginal Mother" – Eliza Hamilton Dunlop; A Month in the Bush of Australia – Thomas Walker
- 1837 in literature: "Woman" – Charles Harpur
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- Quintus Servinton – Henry Savery
1820s
- 1829 in literature: The Bushranger – David Burn; The Hermit in Van Diemen's Land – Henry Savery
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- 1826 in literature: Aurora Australis – John Dunmore Lang
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- 1824 in literature: Australasia – William Wentworth
- 1823 in literature: "D'Entrecasteaux' Channel, Van Dieman's Land" – John Dunmore Lang
- 1822 in literature: The Life and Times of John Nicol, Mariner – John Nicol
- 1821 in literature: The Australian Magazine, the first Australian literary periodical begins publication
- 1820 in literature: Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales: Undertaken by Order of the British Government in the Years 1817–18 – John Oxley
1810s
- 1819 in literature: First Fruits of Australian Poetry – Barron Field; Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux – James Hardy Vaux
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- 1814 in literature: A Voyage to Terra Australis – Matthew Flinders
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- 1810 in literature: "Ode (for His Majesty's Birth Day)" – Michael Massey Robinson
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- The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, the first Australian newspaper begins publication
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- 1801 in literature: Adventures on a Journey to New Holland – Therese Huber
- 1800 in literature: "Botany Bay Ecologues" – Robert Southey
18th century
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- 1794 in literature: Letters from an Exile at Botany Bay – Thomas Watling
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- 1790 in literature: Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales – John White
1780s
- 1789 in literature: "Visit of Hope to Sydney Cove Near Botany Bay" – Erasmus Darwin; The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay – Arthur Phillip
- 1788 in literature: Journal of a First Fleet Surgeon – George Bouchier Worgan
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