In a piece titled "They're All Write, Mate" in "The Courier Mail", Alexander McRobbie - for Australia Day - gives a brief overview of "major Australian writers prominent in the 20th century before becoming members of the Society of Dead Authors -- rarely a keenly anticipated honour."
Authors mentioned: Alan Yates (aka Carter Brown), Thea Astley, Charmian Clift, George Johnston, Alan Marshall, Eleanor Dark, Alfred Jackson (Xavier Herbert), Arthur Upfield, Ernestine Hill, Pamela Travers, May Gibbs, Norman Lindsay, Joan Lindsay, D'Arcy Niland, John O'Grady, Kylie Tennant, Christina Stead, Miles Franklin, Patrick White, and Ion Idriess.
