On Our Selection: Sketches of the Queensland Bush
Steele Rudd
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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The Rudd family take up a selection in Queensland scrub and spend twenty years failing at it — drought, bark huts, one plow, a cow that dies, a crop that does not come. Steele Rudd was Arthur Hoey Davis, a selector's son who wrote his own family's losing struggle and made Dad and Dave into Australian household names. It is very funny, and the poverty underneath it is not a joke. Fifty-eight plates, from Roberts to Ollila, dwell on families in hard landscapes, the same stubborn family the Rudd selection sets down in Queensland scrub.
The Rudd family take up a selection in Queensland scrub and spend twenty years failing at it — drought, bark huts, one plow, a cow that dies, a crop that does not come. Steele Rudd was Arthur Hoey Davis, a selector's son who wrote his own family's losing struggle and made Dad and Dave into Austra...
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Steele Rudd was the pen name of Arthur Hoey Davis (1868–1935), an Australian author. He worked as a civil servant in Queensland before turning to journalism and writing. He is known for the short-story collection On Our Selection (1899), which introduced the Rudd family of Darling Downs.
Steele Rudd was the pen name of Arthur Hoey Davis (1868–1935), an Australian author. He worked as a civil servant in Queensland before turning to journalism and writing. He is known for the short-story collection On Our Selection (1899), which introduced the Rudd family of Darling Downs.
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