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Australian Identity: Waltzing Matilda By Banjo Paterson

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Australian Identity formed through poetry Australia is renowned for its distinct array of wildlife, landscape and lifestyle. Poetry in Australia is used to portray each and every perception Australians have on the diverse country itself. Banjo Paterson, the Australian bush poet, journalist and author first wrote Waltzing Matilda in 1895. In comparison, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, also known as Kath Walker was an Australian poet wrote Civilization which comments of the effects of white civilization on Aboriginal people. The first poem, Waltzing Matilda is an Australian bush ballad written by Banjo Paterson in 1895. With the unexpressed theme of resistance of authority, Waltzing Matilda tells the story of a swagman who steals a sheep and when caught
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