Louise Campbell is the daughter of historian Charles Bateson, wife of writer and editor Ronald Campbell (who edited "The Australian Journal" for 25 years), and mother of writer Catherine Bateson (previously known as Helen Campbell). She was Assistant Editor of "The Australian Journal" (1950-1954), then Editor of "The National Gas Bulletin", and ran a literary agency using the pseudonym, Mary Bounty. Campbell represented several British firms in Australia. She went to England in 1955 and for the next five years edited three quarterlies with English County Magazines. She was the owner of Lloyds Bookshop in Brisbane from 1965 to 1985 and Elwood Village Bookshop from 1986 to 1988. She collaborated with Margaret Carnegie in bibliographical work from 1987 to 1990. Campbell collected books on every aspect of gambling and this collection became the foundation of the collection of the Australian Institute of Gambling Research.

New Jersey-born poet Billy Jones moved to Australia from 1967 and lived in Queensland from 1970. Jones published illustrated books of poetry and from June 1975 he wrote and sketched in a journal every day, which resulted in a series of 167 illustrated journals. He died in 2012.

Hollie Charlton, Brisbane artist, is now known as Hollie.

Journalist and historian, father of Louise Campbell.

Ernestine Hill was born in 1899 in Rockhampton, Queensland. She was educated at All Hallows School and Stott & Hoare's Business College, Brisbane. After working briefly in the public service she joined the staff of Smith's Weekly, Sydney, in 1919, as secretary to its literary editor J F Archibald. Hill subsequently became sub-editor of the paper and consolidated her career as a journalist during the 1930s when she travelled extensively across Australia writing articles for Associated Newspapers and other publications such as Walkabout. Her articles were widely read and sometimes controversial: her reporting of a gold strike in the Northern Territory in 1931 contributed to financial ruin for some and was branded irresponsible; another, a front page story for the Sunday Sun, 19 June 1932, marked the beginning of a long and sometimes turbulent association with Daisy Bates. Hill's major published works arose out of her travels during this period - The Great Australian Loneliness (1937), Water into Gold (1937), Flying Doctor Calling (1947), The Territory (1951) and Kabbarli, a personal memoir of Daisy Bates, published posthumously in 1973. Her only published novel was the immensely successful My Love Must Wait (1941), based on the life of Matthew Flinders Between 1940 and 1942. Hill was editor of the women's pages of the A.B.C. Weekly and from 1941 to 1944 she was a commissioner of the A.B.C. After her resignation from this position she resumed her travels, working constantly on ideas for future novels, plays, travel and historical books and radio and film scripts. Apart from The Territory (1951) and a few articles none of these were ever published. Hill was awarded a Commonwealth Literary Fund fellowship in 1959, which provided her with a small pension but the last years of her life were dominated by financial hardship and ill-health. She returned to Brisbane in 1970 and died there on 21 August 1972.

Helen Campbell is now known as Catherine Bateson. Born in Sydney, Bateson grew up in Brisbane where her mother Louise Campbell, a journalist, also owned a second hand bookshop. Her father is Ronald Campbell. After completing an Arts degree at the University of Queensland, Bateson moved to Melbourne and later to country Victoria.

Born in Mackay on 6 April 1948, Paul Knobel is a poet, writer, and historian of sexuality. He was educated in Mackay, Rockhampton and Brisbane. In 1969 he graduated from a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the University of Queensland and a Masters (with Honours) in English Literature from the University of Sydney in 1977. Knobel worked at Lloyd's Bookshop in Brisbane in the 1960s.

After joining the 'Australian Journal' as a crime writer in the early 1920s, Ronald Campbell took on the responsibility of producing a story each month under the pseudonym Rex Grayson. He was appointed editor of the journal in 1926 and continued in that role until 1954 when the magazine was sold by its long-time owners Massina & Company. Campbell was married to editor, literary agent and bookshop owner, Louise Campbell, and is the father of writer, Catherine Bateson.

Sam Fullbrook was born on 14 April 1922 in Chippendale, Sydney. He was an Australian artist, winner of the Archibald Prize in 1974 and the Wynne Prize for landscape.

Ballet dancer, actor, producer, director and choreographer.