Dr Ross McMullin's 2007 Creative Fellowship resulted in the publication of his award-winning book, Farewell, dear people: Biographies of Australia's lost generation. The book was awarded the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History and also won the National Cultural Award.

Farewell, dear people explores the lives of 10 Australians of outstanding potential who exemplify our lost generation of WWI, including an internationally renowned medical scientist, an Antarctic explorer, a Rhodes scholar, a barrister, a winemaker, a footballer, a rising Labor star and a popular farmer who inspired the film Gallipoli.