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Australian wit and humor

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Australian literature

• Satire, Australian

• Oz (satirical, countercultural Australian magazine published in the 1960s) (partial serial archives)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Melba's Gift Book of Australian Art And literature (published for the Belgian Relief Fund by G. Robertson and Co., ca. 1915), ed. by Franklin Peterson, contrib. by Nellie Melba (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Melba's Gift Book of Australian Art And literature (published for the Belgian Relief Fund by Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1915), ed. by Franklin Peterson, contrib. by Nellie Melba (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Changing the Victorian Subject (c2014), ed. by Maggie Tonkin, Mandy Treagus, Madeleine Says, and Sharon Crozier-De Rosa (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• Francis Adams (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #24; 1996), by Meg Tasker (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)

• The Bulletin Reciter: A Collection of Verses for Recitation from "The Bulletin" (1880-1901) (Sydney: Bulletin Newspaper Co., 1902) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Black Words White Page: Aboriginal Literature 1929-1988 (15th anniversity edition; Canberra: ANU E Press, c2004), by Adam Shoemaker (PDF and HTML with commentary at ANU Press)

• Tilting at Windmills: The Literary Magazine in Australia, 1968-2012 (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2015), by Phillip Edmonds (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• Gegenschein, by Eric Lindsay (partial serial archives)

• Poetry in Australia, 1923 (Sidney: Vision Press, 1923), contrib. by Norman Lindsay
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Songs of a Sunlit Land (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1908), by James Alexander Kenneth Mackay
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Navigating the Kingdom of Night (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, 2013), by Amy T. Matthews (multiple formats with commentary at Adelaide)

• Tilting at Windmills: The Literary Magazine in Australia, 1968-2012 (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, c2015), by Phillip Edmonds (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• Black Words White Page: Aboriginal Literature 1929-1988 (15th anniversity edition; Canberra: ANU E Press, c2004), by Adam Shoemaker (PDF and HTML with commentary at ANU Press)

• Literature in New South Wales (Sydney: T. Richards, 1866), by G. B. Barton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Adelaide: A Literary City (c2013), ed. by Philip Butterss (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• Bibliography of South Australia (Adelaide: E. Spiller, government printer, 1886), by Thomas Gill
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Fiction Fields of Australia (original magazine version, 1856), by Frederick Sinnett (PDF at University of Sydney)

• The Lone Hand (full serial archives)
• The Bulletin (Australian periodical founded 1880) (partial serial archives)

• The Lone Hand (full serial archives)

• The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont, by Louis de Rougemont (Gutenberg text)

• Old Tales of a Young Country (1871), by Marcus Clarke (PDF at University of Sydney)

• The Mentor (Australian science fiction fanzine, and Watt's Out review supplement; 1991-2006), ed. by Ron Clarke (partial serial archives)

• An Anthology of Australian Verse, ed. by Bertram Stevens (Gutenberg text)
• The Golden Treasury of Australian Verse (London: Macmillan; Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1912), ed. by Bertram Stevens
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse (London et al.: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1918), ed. by Walter Murdoch
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • HTML at Bartleby

• The Bay and Padie Book: Kiddie Songs (1917), by Furnley Maurice, illust. by Vera Hamilton and Cyril Dobbs (page images at National Library of Australia)
• The Animals Noah Forgot, by A. B. Paterson (PDF at University of Sydney)
• Night Fall in the Ti-Tree (Melbourne: Sign of the Rabbit, 1905), by Geraldine Rede and Violet Teague (page images at childrenslibrary.org)

• Crying in Early Infancy: 100 Sonnets, by John E. Tranter (PDF at johntranter.com)

• A Chant of Doom and Other Verses, by Christopher John Brennan (PDF at University of Sydney)