Here's Luck by Lennie Lower

Lennie Lower was born in Dubbo and lived in Darlinghurst, Sydney, where, according to one of his colleagues, he learnt to write Australian as she is spoke. After leaving the navy, he served time on a number of newspapers and his witty columns made him one of the most loved characters in Australian journalism throughout the 30s and 40s. A hard-drinking, unpredictable man, he was often the despair of sub-editors and more than a handful for proprietors. Here's Luck - his only novel, published in 1930 - quickly became a bestseller. Though he died in 1947 at the age of 43, his novel remains a monument of native Australian humour that is still unsurpassed.