A very important figure in the use of Australian English for literary
purposes. Wrote poems, ballads and stories using the nom de plume "The
Banjo", after his favourite horse.
He wrote the words of "Waltzing Matilda", from which we all learned
about swagmen and billabongs.
Also "The Man from Ironbark". I have a favourite reading of this (I
think by Peter O'Shaughnessy) on an old tape. This one is pretty similar
-- it's _not_ Paterson's voice, but it's hooked up to a really weird
animation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I9AUMHEh1s
Oh yes, he was also a journalist and a war correspondent in the (Second)
Boer War, along with Rudyard Kipling and Winston Churchill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjo_Paterson
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