Emily Matilda Manning, pen-name Australie (13 May 1845 – 25 August 1890) was an Australian journalist and writer.
Having visited England, where she remained for two years and a half, she adopted literary pursuits, and contributed tales and essays to the Sydney Morning Herald and The Sydney Mail.
[2] Manning exchanged poems with David Scott Mitchell in 1864, suggesting a romance between them.
[1] She also published a volume of poems, entitled The Balance of Pain and Other Poems (George Bell & Sons: London, 1877),[2] and died in Blandville, Sydney, on 25 August 1890.
[1] Australie Close, in the Canberra suburb of Gilmore, is named in her honour.