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The Man from Snowy River - Australia's Culture Portal

But Australia has a significant and untameable high country where another set of Australian myths and traditions of Australian identity were born - the high country of the Snowy Mountains. The Man from Snowy River is one of Australia's most famous poems ...

The Australian Bush - Australia's Culture Portal

The bush has an iconic status in Australian life and features strongly in any debate about national identity, especially as expressed in Australian literature, painting, popular music, films and foods. The bush was revered as a source of national ideals b...

Australian folklore - Australia's Culture Portal

Australian folklore, its traditions, customs and beliefs are based on both Indigenous and also non-Indigenous people's knowledge and experience of history in Australia. Some of Australia's folklore remembers the relationship between Europeans and Aborigi...

Great Dividing Range - Australia's Culture Portal

Three Sisters, Blue Mountains, New South Wales. In March 1812 the Colonial Surveyor George William Evans was sent to explore Jervis Bay, to determine a possible inland route back to Port Jackson. Other explorers, such as Hume and Hovell, Major Mitchell ...

Henry Lawson: Australian writer - Australia's Culture Portal

Portrait of Henry Lawson by Sir John Longstaff. Colin Roderick , who published a biography of Lawson called Henry Lawson: a life, suggests that Lawson suffered from manic depression and sought refuge from his mood swings in alcohol. Much of Lawson's work...

The Australian National Anthem - Australia's Culture Portal

Peter Dodds McCormick's Advance Australia Fair was officially declared Australia's national anthem by the Governor-General on 19 April 1984, close to 160 years after the first alternative anthems were put forward. South Australian Carl Linger wrote Song ...

Modern Australian poetry - Australia's Culture Portal

Modern Australian poetry seeks to tell Australian stories and truths with a poetic significance so that 'they sear into the soul and can never be untold' (Dorothy Porter). The Jindyworobaks encouraged Australian writers to express themselves in language ...

Australian rivers - Australia's Culture Portal

Eventually, streams catch more water or join other streams to form a river. The Murray River and its main tributary, the Darling River, are the two main rivers in the Murray-Darling River Basin. The Snowy River is probably Australia's most famous river,...

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Wallis and Matilda (more info)

Australia's best-loved bush poet, A.B. (Banjo) Paterson, brought to musical life by the band 'Wallis and Matilda'. The Man From Snowy River, Clancy of The Overflow, and all the Banjo favourites.

The Works of Banjo Paterson (more info)

A website providing information about one of Australia's best known poets and writers, Banjo Paterson, author of The Man from Snowy River and Waltzing Matilda. Includes his life, works, and links to other Paterson sites.

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National Film and Sound Archive - Kodak/Atlab Cinema Collection - The Man From Snowy River (1982) (website National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) )

A new 35mm print of this film is now available on request. Set in the high country, the film introduces elements of fairy tale into this successful popularisation and internationalisation of the bush myth.' Source: Twin Peeks: Australian & New Zealand Fea...

The Man From Snowy River (website Australian Bush Poetry, Verse & Music )

But still, so slight and weedy, one would doubt his power to stay> And the old man said, "That horse will never do> For a long and tiring gallop - lad, you'd better stay away> Those hills are far too rough for such as you"> So he waited, sad and wistful, ...

The Man from Snowy River - Australia's Culture Portal (website Culture and Recreation Portal )

But Australia has a significant and untameable high country where another set of Australian myths and traditions of Australian identity were born - the high country of the Snowy Mountains. The Man from Snowy River is one of Australia's most famous poems ...