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Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the district around Binalong, New South Wales, where he spent much of his childhood. Paterson's more notable poems include "Clancy of the Overflow" (1889), "The Man from Snowy River" (1890) and "Waltzing Matilda" (1895), regarded widely as Australia's unofficial national anthem.

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T.y.s.o.n.
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Old Man Platypus
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Paddy's Letter, 1857
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Paddy Malone In Australia
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A Ballad of Ducks
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Mulga Bill's Bicycle
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Fur And Feathers
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El Mahdi to the Australian Troops
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In the Droving Days
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In Defence of the Bush
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Frogs in chorus
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Saltbush Bill's Second Flight
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A Bunch of Roses
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Billy Barlow In Australia
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Investigating Flora
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Saltbush Bill on the Patriarchs
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The Old Survey
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Immigration
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The Amateur Rider
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Santa Claus in the Bush
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Shakespeare on the Turf
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Tar and Feathers
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Black Swans
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Song of the Future
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The Ballad of M. T. Nutt and His Dog 126 ViewsRate it
The Dauntless Three
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The Two Devines
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An answer to Various Bards
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The Wargeilah Handicap
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The Man Who Was Away
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A Motor Courtship
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Clancy of the Overflow
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In the Stable
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Our New Horse
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The Geebung Polo Club
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A Disqualified Jockey's Story
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The Rule of the A.J.C. 122 ViewsRate it
A Bush Lawyer
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The Premier and the Socialist
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The Scottish Engineer
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The Maori's Wool
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Behind the Scenes 118 ViewsRate it
Our Own Flag
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The First Surveyor
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Bush Christening
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How M'Ginnis went missing
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My Mate Bill
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Out of Sight 117 ViewsRate it
Saltbush Bill, J.P.
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The Beautiful Land Of Australia
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The Federal Bus Conductor and the Old Lady
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A Song of the Pen
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Daylight is Dying
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Tommy Corrigan 115 ViewsRate it
A Job for McGuinness
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Jock
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The Plains
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The Swagman's Rest
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With French to Kimberley
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Saltbush Bill, J.P.
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The Man from Goondiwindi, Q. 113 ViewsRate it
The Swagman 113 ViewsRate it
Santa Claus
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There's Another Blessed Horse Fell Down
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A Dog's Mistake
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Only a Jockey
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The Road to Gundagai
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An Idyll of Dandaloo
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The Story of Mongrel Grey
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On the Trek
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Prelude - From The Man From Snowy River And Other Verses
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Sydney Cup 1899
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The Billy-Goat Overland 108 ViewsRate it
The Protest
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As Long As Your Eyes Are Blue
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Pioneers
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The Overlander
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'We're All Australians Now'
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Shearing at Castlereagh
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The Matrimonial Stakes
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Song of the Wheat
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The Maori Pig Market
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Why the Jackass Laughs
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A Bush Christening
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An Emu Hunt
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The Road to Old Man's Town
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Jimmy Sago, Jackaroo
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Not On It 101 ViewsRate it
Swinging the Lead
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My Religion
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Australia Today 1916
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Conroy's Gap
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Song of the Artesian Water
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The Lost Leichardt
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Typographical 98 ViewsRate it
Bringing Home The Cows
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Johnny Boer
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The Pannikin Poet
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Been There Before
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Old Schooldays
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The Great Calamity
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Two Aboriginal Songs 94 ViewsRate it
Under the Shadow of Kiley's Hill
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The Winds Message
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That V.C.
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A Dream of the Melbourne Cup
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Bold Jack Donahoo
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Macbreath
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The Mylora Elopement
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Black Harry's Team
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Brumby's Run
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River Bend
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The Hypnotist
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The Sausage Candidate-A Tale of the Elections
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The Stringy-Bark Cockatoo
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The Flying Gang
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Hay and Hell and Booligal
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The Boss of the Admiral Lynch
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The Murrumbidgee Shearer
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Jimmy Dooley's Army
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Saltbush Bill's Gamecock
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The Diggers 87 ViewsRate it
The Shepherd 87 ViewsRate it
Bottle 'O' 86 ViewsRate it
Riders in the Stand
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The Fitzroy Blacksmith 85 ViewsRate it
A Voice from the Town
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High Explosive
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Moving On 84 ViewsRate it
Mustering Song
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Old Pardon, the Son of Reprieve
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Opening of the Railway Line 84 ViewsRate it
The Stockmen Of Australia
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Another Fall Of Rain
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By the Grey Gulf-water
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Mulligan's Mare
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The Wreck of the Golfer
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The Army Mules
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The Bushman
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The Passing of Gundagai
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A Walgett Episode
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Commandeering
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The Man from Snowy River
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The Travelling Post Office
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Our Mat
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Father Riley's Horse
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On Kiley's Run
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Over The Range
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Policeman G. 80 ViewsRate it
The Bushfire - an Allegory
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The Stockman
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Last Week 79 ViewsRate it
The Reverend Mullineux 79 ViewsRate it
The Free Selector
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The Last Parade
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The Old Bark Hut
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A Mountain Station
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The Loafers' Club
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The Open Steeplechase
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What Have the Cavalry Done?
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Boots
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Buffalo Country
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He Giveth His Beloved Sleep
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The Dying Stockman
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Sam Holt
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The Reveille
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Hard Luck
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How The Favourite Beat Us
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The City of Dreadful Thirst
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Lost
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Ambition and Art
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Camouflage
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Flash Jack From Gundagai
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The Lost Drink
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Reconstruction 71 ViewsRate it
The Rum Parade
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A Singer of the Bush
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The Pearl Diver
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Anthony Considine
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Morgan's Dog
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Shearing With a Hoe 69 ViewsRate it
The Wild Colonial Boy
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“Shouting” for a Camel
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Benjamin Bandicoot
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Old Australian Ways
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Shearing at Castlereagh
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With the Cattle
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A Thousand Miles Away
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Jim Carew
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A Change of Menu 66 ViewsRate it
The Lung Fish
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The Pannikin Poet
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Right in Front of the Army
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Saltbush Bill
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The Old Timer's Steeplechase
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The Quest Eternal
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Gone Down
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The Ballad of G. R. Dibbs
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The Stockman's Last Bed
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Johnson’s Antidote
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The Scorcher and the Howling Swell
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Waltzing Matilda
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The Gundaroo Bullock
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Any Other Time
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Australian Scenery
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Cassidy's Epitaph
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Come-by-Chance
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With French to Kimberley
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John Gilbert (Bushranger) 59 ViewsRate it
Song Of The Squatter
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The Old Bullock Dray
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Fed Up
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Flying Squirrels
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The All Right Un
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Tom Collins 58 ViewsRate it
A Bushman's Song
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A Triolet 57 ViewsRate it
The Dam that Keele Built 57 ViewsRate it
The Seven Ages of Wise
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A National Song For Australia Felix
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The Ballad of Cockatoo Dock
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The Rhyme of the O'Sullivan
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Gilhooley's Estate
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How Gilbert Died
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The Ballad of That P.N. 53 ViewsRate it
The Deficit Demon
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The Maranoa Drovers
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The Plains Of Riverine
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Uncle Bill
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A Rule Of The A.J.C. 51 ViewsRate it
The Man from Iron Bark
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The Mountain Squatter
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The Scapegoat
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'He Giveth His Beloved Sleep'
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Hawker, the Standard Bearer
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The Incantation
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The Old Australian Ways
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The Ballad of the Carpet Bag
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That Half-Crown Sweep
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The Daylight is Dying
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The Eumerella Shore
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At the Melting of the Snow
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Frying Pan's Theology
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The Squatter Of The Olden Time
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Wisdom of Hafiz: the Philosopher Takes to Racing
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The Lay of the Motor-Car
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Song Of The Federation
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Driver Smith
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Weary Will
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'Shouting' For A Camel
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The Australian Stockman
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Who is Kator Anyhow?
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Rio Grande's Last Race
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The Old Keg Of Rum
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The Silent Shearer
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The Old Tin Hat
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Wallabi Joe
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The Freehold On The Plain
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The Weather Prophet
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Those Names
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The Wallaby Brigade 36 ViewsRate it
Do They Know? 35 ViewsRate it
White Cockatoos
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It's Grand 34 ViewsRate it
Sunny New South Wales
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The Road to Hogan's Gap
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When Dacey rode the Mule
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An Evening in Dandaloo
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Colonial Experience
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The Ballad of the Calliope
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The Corner Man
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The Sheep-Washers' Lament
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Now Listen to Me and I'll Tell You My Views
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The Last Trump
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The Angel's Kiss
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Rio Grande
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The Duties of an Aide-de-camp
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A Nervous Governor-General
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Sunrise on the Coast
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The Ghost of the Murderer's Hut
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The Squatter's Man
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The Broken-Down Squatter
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Bourke's Dream
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On The Road To Gundagai 25 ViewsRate it

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