AustLit

This dataset came into being in 2008 as the team of researchers who had worked on the Writers of Tropical Queensland, based at James Cook University in Townsville, began opening up the comparatively unexplored literature associated with the Northern Territory and northern Western Australia as areas of specific AustLit research focus.

They expect to discover many features that in general distinguish the literature of the Australian tropics from works produced in more temperate southern zones, recording information by and about authors who were born in, lived in, visited or wrote about the Northern Territory. It also includes information about journalists, columnists, editors, newspapers, periodicals and associated companies and individuals important to the cultural life of the region.