I think that most of the people in Melbourne would trade their lockdown for droving in Queensland, right now, even though droving was risky, dangerous…
Posted: 14 October 2020
Categories: Poetry
Tag: Banjo Patterson
Posted: 19 August 2020
Categories: Poetry
Bush poets and the advocacy of a white Australian Policy Made the Bulletin. It did not survive the winnowing of the global financial crisis and…
Posted: 22 January 2020
Categories: Australia, New Zealand, Poetry
This is not a Kipling. It is a Bush poem. Banjo Patterson was Australia’s popular poet of the Imperial era, and he knew Kipling wrote…