Notable Australian writers have included the novelists Marcus Clarke , Miles Franklin , Christina Stead , Patrick White , David Malouf , Thomas Keneally , Morris West and Colleen McCullough , the bush poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson , historians Manning Clark and Geoffrey Blainey , the playwright David Williamson and leading expatriate writers Barry Humphries , Robert Hughes , Clive James and Germaine Greer .
Notable Australian writers have included the novelists Marcus Clarke , Miles Franklin , Patrick White , Thomas Keneally , Morris West and Colleen McCullough , the bush poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson , historians Manning Clark and Geoffrey Blainey , the playwright David Williamson and leading expatriate writers Barry Humphries , Robert Hughes , Clive James and Germaine Greer .