The Bulletin was an Australian weekly magazine based in Sydney and first published in 1880. It featured politics, business, poetry, fiction and humour, alongside cartoons and other illustrations.
Front cover of the 22 February 1890 edition
J. F. Archibald and John Haynes, imprisoned in Darlinghurst Gaol in 1882 for not paying the costs in the Clontarf libel case
Henry Lawson
Mary Gilmore
Banjo Paterson
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Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author, widely considered one of the greatest writers of Australia's colonial period.
The Bulletin (Australian periodical)
…Described as "the bushman's bible", The Bulletin helped cultivate a mythology surrounding the Australian bush, with bush poets such as Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson contributing many of their best known works to the publication. After federation in 1901, The Bulletin changed owners multiple times and gradually…
Banjo Paterson, c. 1890
Paterson as a baby with his nanny, Wiradjuri girl Fanny Hopkins, mid-1860s
The Gladesville cottage Rockend, where Paterson lived in the 1870s and 1880s
This portrait of Paterson is reproduced on the Australian ten-dollar note.