Edwin James Brady (7 August 1869 – 22 July 1952) was an Australian journalist and poet. Personal life From Irish parents, Brady was born at Carcoar, New South Wales, and was educated both in the United States and Sydney, Australia. Among his school friends was Christopher Brennan and Roderic Quinn. He worked as a wharf clerk, a farmer, and journalist, and edited both rural and city newspapers. His political leanings were as a confirmed socialist, and secretary of the first Socialist League of Australia, in Sydney, 1890. It was suggested that Brady and fellow poet Henry Lawson contemplated with becoming 'New Australians' at the 1893 New Australia settlement in Paraguay, away from the influences of capitalism. Career Brady was a friend with poets Will H. Ogilvie (1869–1963), Roderic Quinn (1867–1949)), Banjo Paterson (1864–1941) and Henry Lawson (1867–1922). Several of those individuals were also members of the Bohemian group, the Dawn and Dusk Club, with Brady being the last. In 1910, Brady took Lawson on a poets' retreat, restoring Lawson's health. He was the editor of the Australian Workman, Sydney's first trade union newspaper, in 1891-92. The Bulletin and the Sunday Times were the repositories for many of his poems and prose. In 1899, equipped with a notebook, gun, and camera, Brady drove a wagon from Sydney to Townsville (although intending to reach the Gulf of Carpentaria) and back, recording the lives of the settlers. Working at Grafton's Daily Examiner in New South Wales, Brady wrote under the pen-name Nedi Woolli. The first name was an extension of Quinn's name for Brady, and the last name being an indigenous name relating to the Yamba area; with Quinn normally calling him Ned. He later took over The Grip newspaper, but 'it went 'straight on the rocks' '. Brady later established a writers' and artists' colony at Mallacoota, Victoria in 1909, and he continued to live there until his death. He chronicled an eventful journey down the Murray River in a small motor boat from Albury to the coast in 1911 in River Rovers. A passionate nationalist, he achieved his greatest fame with his book Australia Unlimited, a bestseller from its appearance in 1918, which urged dramatic increases in the national population. In 1926, a book entitled Industrial Australia was being written about the history and growth of industry within the country. His last work Two Frontiers was published in 1945. He also