Australian Book Related Firsts

The first published Australian novel:
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/archived/bookshow/australias-first...

The first Australian public library:
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drive/historyonics3a-australia27s-...

The first Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to an Australian:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1973/press-release/

Got any firsts you want to add to the list?

Thomas Keneally, won the Booker Prize for Schindler's Ark. He was the first Australian winner.

Josh Niland has just become the first Australian ever to win the James Beard Book Award for The Whole Fish Cookbook

2018's Dark Emu, by Bruce Pascoe, is the first book to explore key examples of evidence that aboriginal peoples were the first people to practice agriculture all across Australia, including the growing of rice and numerous other grains.