Edwin Brady

Edwin James Brady, known as E. J. Brady, was an Australian journalist and poet who lived from 1869 to 1952. Born at Carcoar in New South Wales to Irish parents, he worked as a wharf clerk and farmer before editing rural and city newspapers, among them the Australian Workman, which was Sydney's first trade union newspaper. His verse and prose appeared in The Bulletin and the Sunday Times, and he moved among the bohemian circle of poets that included Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson. In 1909 he founded a writers' and artists' colony at Mallacoota in Victoria, where he lived until his death. His best known book, Australia Unlimited (1918), was a large illustrated survey of the country's resources that urged a much bigger national population.