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John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland | 1899
J. G. Drake J. G. Drake i(A76944 works by) (a.k.a. James G. Drake)
Gender: Male
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1 25 y separately published work icon The Boomerang Boomerang: A Live Newspaper - Racy of the Soil William Lane (editor), J. G. Drake (editor), Gresley Lukin (editor), Brisbane : Boomerang Newspaper Company , 1887-1892 Z1055009 1887-1892 periodical (208 issues)

A radical, illustrated weekly, founded by William Lane and Alfred Walker, The Boomerang published stories, poetry, social and sporting notes and cartoons. Henry Lawson and A. G. Stephens were both staff members - Lawson writing a column called 'Country Crumbs'. Lawson's retrenchment from The Boomerang is the subject of his poem 'The Shame of Going Back'; the demise of the publication may have inspired the poem 'The Cambaroora Star'. (Oxford Companion to Australian Literature).
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