A Song Is 75
The seventy-fifth anniversary of “Waltzing Matilda,” Australia’s best-loved song, will be celebrated soon in North-West Queensland. To mark the occasion there will be a re-enact-ment at Dagworth Station of the incidents mentioned in the song, reports an N.Z.P.A. correspondent. These include the swaggie camping by a biilabong under the shade of a coolibah tree, the arrival of the troopers, and the swagman’s fatal dive into the water to escape arrest The re-enactment will take place at the Combo
Waterhole, at Dagwortb Station. Shearers attacked the Dagworth woolshed in 1894. Shots were fired, and 140 sheep were burnt to death when the shed was set alight. One of the shearers who took part in the raid committed suicide. These events are said to have inspired Banjo Patterson to write “Waltzing Matilda” in 1895. There is nothing to sing about in Waltzing Matilda country in 1970. A large part of tbe area has endured 13 years of drought
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32354, 21 July 1970, Page 11
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160A Song Is 75 Press, Volume CX, Issue 32354, 21 July 1970, Page 11
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