Ross Napier (April 21, 1929 – November 2, 2004) was one of Australia's leading radio and TV writers from the 1950s to 1990s, as well as an accomplished novelist.
Napier spent much of his career in television, notably as script editor of the classic Australian series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo,[3] for which he wrote the majority of episodes.
According to an article in The Sydney Morning Herald in 1984, "Devotees are continually ringing the station to find out what will happen in the next three weeks as they have to know, or they can't go on holiday".
He and wife Ann researched all the locations where the story took place, driving around Tamworth and Glen Innes and visiting all the old coaching stations.
being edited by his daughter, Linzi Napier, who, with Jacqui Law-Smith, formed Castlereagh Productions with plans to re-release the novels and turn the successful radio serial into a television series.