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A New Song single work poetry humour "The Convicts are coming - oho! oho!"

Issue Details: First known date: 1849... 1849 A New Song

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'Satire on the introduction of convicts to Western Australia.' - Webby

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y The Perth Gazette, and Independent Journal of Politics and News vol. 2 no. 98 16 November 1849 Z592913 1849 newspaper issue 1849
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1849
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Note:
Author's note: (Adapted from 'Sam Sly's African Journal')

Tune - 'The Campbell's are Coming'
Appears in:

y Margins : A West Coast Selection of Poetry 1829-1988 William Grono (editor), Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1988 Z141535 1988 anthology poetry Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1988
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1988
)
pg. 31-32
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y The Poet's Discovery : Nineteenth Century Australia in Verse Richard Douglas Jordan (editor), Peter Pierce (editor), Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 1990 Z299524 1990 anthology poetry biography Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 1990
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1990
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pg. 229
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y Western Australian Writing : An Online Anthology John Kinsella (editor), Nedlands : University of Western Australia Library AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource , 2003 Z1075006 2003 anthology poetry autobiography biography correspondence essay extract prose short story Nedlands : University of Western Australia Library AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource , 2003
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2003
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y An Anthology of Australian Poetry to 1920 John Kinsella (editor), Nedlands : University of Western Australia Library , 2007 Z1908582 2007 anthology poetry column prose Nedlands : University of Western Australia Library , 2007
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2007
)
pg. 81-82

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Convict transportation

Western Australia,

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