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.

William Jones, known as Billy Jones, was born on 14 June 1935 in Camden, New Jersey. He dropped out of high school to join the Marines. Following four years of service he attended university on the GI Bill, completing a Bachelor of Arts in English. After some time travelling abroad he moved to Australia in 1967 and met his partner, Diane Kelly, in 1968. They settled at Mary Smokes Creek, near Woodford, Queensland, in 1970. Jones published illustrated books of poetry. After Diane died in a car accident in June 1975, Jones wrote and sketched in a journal everyday up until his death, eventually amassing 167 illustrated volumes. He died on 3 July 2012 in Queensland, leaving behind possibly one of the largest bodies of unpublished works for a poet of his time.

Hollie Charlton, Brisbane artist, is now known as Hollie. She creates large-scale aerosol murals as well as studio works using a variety of media, such as print making, collage and acrylics. Hollie often draws inspiration from her travels, issues surrounding gender, and graffiti culture. Her works are often inspired by traditional graffiti lettering, as well as contemporary depictions of the still life, utilising fruit, flowers and other objects in her imagery.

Charles Bateson is a journalist, historian and the father of Louise Campbell. He was born on 4 August 1903 in Wellington, New Zealand and moved to Australia in 1922. During World War II Bateson was a publicity officer for the Department of the Interior until appointed principal information officer on 30 December 1940. Between 1943 and 1973, Bateman published thirteen history books. His books reflected his work during World War II and his interest in Australian maritime history. In 1960, Bateson became the editorial manager of Mirror Newspapers Ltd. Bateman died on 5 July 1974 in New South Wales. The Mitchell Library in New South Wales was bequeathed 1300 of Bateson's books.

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 Ernest Knobel is a poet, writer, and historian of sexuality. He was educated in Mackay, Rockhampton and Brisbane. Knobel worked at Lloyd's Bookshop in Brisbane in the 1960s. 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. He is now based in Auckland, New Zealand.

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.

Sir Robert Helpmann is an Australian ballet dancer, actor, producer, director and choreographer. He was born in 1909 in Mount Gambier, South Australia. Helpmann was taught ballet by Nora Stewart and first appeared on stage at the Theatre Royal, Adelaide, in 1922. As a student he toured Australia and New Zealand in 1926 with Anna Pavlova's company. His professional career began in 1927 when he joined J.C. Williamson Ltd. In 1931 he was 'discovered' by English actress Margaret Rawlings and moved to London, England, the following year. In 1933 he was employed by Dame Ninette de Valois in her Vic-Wells Ballet. Helpmann was the principal male dancer from 1935 to his resignation in 1950. In the 1950s, Helpmann's focus shifted to the dramatic stage, both as a director and actor. His output at the Old Vic in London was prolific. He returned to Australia in 1955 to lead an Old Vic Shakespearean company with Katharine Hepburn and, later, Vivien Leigh. In 1965, he was appointed the artistic director of the Australian Ballet and remained so until 1976. During this time he worked as co-artistic director with Dame Peggy van Praagh and Rudolf Nureyev. In parallel to his ballet and dramatic stage career was his film acting career. Between 1942 and 1987, Helpmann starred in eighteen films. In his later years, he continued to perform in ballets in Australia and abroad while continuing to act and produce. Helpmann died in 1986 in Sydney. His portrait (by Judy Cassab) hangs in the Sydney Opera House. The Helpmann awards were established by the Australian Entertainment Industry Association in 2001.