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Notes:From the New Australia Journal.Notes:
There are a number of minor diffences between The Worker version of this work and the version which subsequently appeared in 'Bill Bowyang's' Old Bush Recitations, and the later anthologies. Significantly, in The Worker version, the first verse refers specifically to the departure of the New Australia colonists, which becomes the work's central theme, and thus gives the title a particular significance. However, in 'Bill Bowyang's' version, there is no reference to the New Australia colonists, and the work has a broader theme involving bush workers, bad luck, exploitation, etc.
Notes:The first verse of The Worker version is as follows :
Our fathers came to search for gold - the claim has proved a duffer ; / The syndicates and bankers boss the show and make us suffer : / So we're off to try for freedom for ourselves and mates to toil - / We're bound to New Australia and the billy's on the boil.'
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Appears in:
- y The Worker 12 August 1893 Z1315494 1893 newspaper issue 1893 pg. 3
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- y The North Queensland Register 5 July 1926 Z1478592 1926 newspaper issue 1926 pg. 87 Section: On the Track
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Appears in:
- y Old Bush Recitations 'Bill Bowyang' , Bowen : 'Bill Bowyang' , 1932 Z1292466 1932 anthology poetry Bowen : 'Bill Bowyang' , 1933 pg. 18-19
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Appears in:
- y From the Ballads to Brennan T. Inglis Moore (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1964 Z407973 1964 anthology poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1964 pg. 38-39
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y
The Overlander Songbook
Ronald George Edwards
(editor),
Ronald George Edwards
(illustrator),
Ferntree Gully
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Rams Skull Press
,
1956
Z856165
1956
anthology
poetry
prose
Adelaide
:
Rigby Publishers
,
1971
pg.
146
Note: First line: 'The old man's gone in search for gold,'. Includes annotations by editor.
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y
The Overlander Songbook
Ronald George Edwards
(editor),
Ronald George Edwards
(illustrator),
Ferntree Gully
:
Rams Skull Press
,
1956
Z856165
1956
anthology
poetry
prose
Adelaide
:
Rigby Publishers
,
1971
pg.
146
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Appears in:
- y Old Bush Songs and Rhymes of Colonial Times Douglas Stewart (editor), Nancy Keesing (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1957 Z389570 1957 anthology poetry Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1976 pg. 223
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Appears in:
- y Love and History, Peace and War : Australia's Heritage in Verse Jim Keeffe (editor), Townsville : Simple Images , 1985 Z1293661 1985 anthology poetry Townsville : Simple Images , 1985 pg. 19
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Appears in:
- y Australian Bush Poems Adelaide : Axiom , 1991 Z520625 1991 anthology poetry satire humour Adelaide : Axiom , 1991 pg. 11-12
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Appears in:
- y On the Track with Bill Bowyang : With Australian Bush Recitations 'Bill Bowyang' , Dawn Anderson (editor), Ascot Vale : Red Rooster Press , 1991-1992 Z1437804 1991-1992 anthology poetry Comprises all nine booklets in Bill Bowyang's Australian Bush Recitations series published between 1933 and 1940, together with a comprehensive critical, biographical and bibliographical introduction. Ascot Vale : Red Rooster Press , 1991-1992 pg. 65 Section: Volume 1
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- y Classic Australian Verse Maggie Pinkney (editor), Noble Park : Five Mile Press , 2001 Z864790 2001 anthology poetry Noble Park : Five Mile Press , 2001 pg. 66-67
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