* 1924 – David Rowbotham, Australian poet ( d. 2010 )

" Of the Australian national flag, the Australian poet Banjo Paterson wrote in 1893: The English flag may flutter and wave, where the world wide oceans toss, but the flag the Australian dies to save, is the flag of the Southern Cross.

* 1955 – Rex Ingamells, Australian poet ( b. 1913 )

* 1930 – Bruce Dawe, Australian poet

* 1929 – Peter Porter, Australian poet ( d. 2010 )

* 1867 – Henry Lawson, Australian poet ( d. 1922 )

* 1863 – George Essex Evans, Australian poet ( d. 1909 )

* 1920 – Gwen Harwood, Australian poet ( d. 1995 )

* 1913 – Rex Ingamells, Australian poet ( d. 1955 )

* 1883 – Ethel Anderson, Australian poet ( d. 1958 )

David Charles Mooney Australian poet

* 1908 – Harry Hooton, Australian poet ( d. 1961 )

* 1954 – Peter Bakowski, Australian poet

* 1876 – C. J. Dennis, Australian poet ( d. 1938 )

* 1923 – Nancy Keesing, Australian author and poet ( d. 1993 )

A late ( 1890s ) reference to the urban legend of the murdering barber can be found in the poem by the Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson — The Man from Ironbark.

** Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet ( died 1971 )

* February 6 – Banjo Paterson, Australian poet & journalist ( b. 1864 )

* James Alexander Allan, Australian poet ( d. 1956 )

* July 30 – Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet ( b. 1901 )

* June 24 – Adam Lindsay Gordon, Australian poet ( b. 1833 )

* October 5 – Christopher Brennan, Australian poet and scholar ( b. 1870 )

Notable members of the Industrial Workers of the World have included Lucy Parsons ; Helen Keller ; Joe Hill ; Ralph Chaplin ; Ricardo Flores Magon ; James P. Cannon ; James Connolly ; Jim Larkin ; Paul Mattick ; Big Bill Haywood ; Eugene Debs ; David Dellinger ; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ; Sam Dolgoff, Monty Miller ; Indian Nationalist Lala Hardayal ; Frank Little ; ACLU founder Roger Nash Baldwin ; Harry Bridges, briefly, later helped form ILWU ; Minnesota Governor Floyd B. Olson ; Buddhist beat poet Gary Snyder ; Fredy Perlman ; Australian poets Harry Hooton and Lesbia Harford ; graphic artist Carlos Cortez ; artist Kevin McCoy ; counterculture icon Kenneth Rexroth ; Surrealist Franklin Rosemont ; Rosie Kane and Carolyn Leckie, former Members of the Scottish Parliament ; labor and environmental organizer Judi Bari ; folk musicians Utah Phillips, Harry McClintock, Anne Feeney, and David Rovics ; crime writer Jim Thompson ; Finnish folk music legend Hiski Salomaa ; Catholic Workers Dorothy Day and Ammon Hennacy.

1982's The Man from Snowy River starring Tom Burlinson and Sigrid Thornton dramatised the classic Banjo Paterson poem of that name and became one of the all time box-office successes of Australian cinema.

Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's " greatest writer ".

During the colonial era, distinctive forms of Australian art, music and literature developed through movements like the Heidelberg school of painters and the work of bush balladeers like Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson, whose poetry and prose did much to promote an egalitarian Australian outlook which placed a high value on mateship.

At the close of the 19th century, the art of the Heidelberg School began to capture the unique colours of the Australian bush, famed writers Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson presented conflicting views of the harshness and romance of life in Australia, and performing artists like Dame Nellie Melba succeeded internationally in the traditional European arts.

Among the important authors of classic Australian works are the poets Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson, C J Dennis and Dorothea McKellar.

Australia has a long tradition of country music, which has developed a style quite distinct from its US counterpart, influenced by Celtic folk ballads and the traditions of Australian bush balladeers like Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson.

" The Man from Snowy River " is a poem by Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson.

It is recorded in the selected works of " Banjo " Paterson that the location of the ride fictionalised in the poem was in the region of today's Burrinjuck Dam, north-west of Canberra in Australian Capital Territory.

" Banjo " Paterson and " The Man From Snowy River " poem are commemorated on the Australian 10 dollar note

* The Man from Snowy River ( TV series ) — ( Australian title: " Banjo Paterson's: The Man from Snowy River ") — ( American title: " Snowy River: The McGregor Saga ")

He was known to record songs in the legacy of Australian poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Patterson that represented the Australian Bush Lifestyle, and also for his many trucking songs.

Dusty recorded not only songs written by himself and other fellow Australian performers but also classic Australian poems by Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson, with new tunes to call attention to the old ' Bush Ballads.

Another folk hero in Australian folklore is Charlie McKeahnie, The Man from Snowy River – A hero ( created by author Banjo Patterson ) whose bravery, adaptability, and risk-taking could epitomise the new Australian spirit.

Initially radical, nationalist, democratic, and racist, it gained wide influence and became a celebrated entry-point to publication for Australian writers and cartoonists such as Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson, Miles Franklin, and the illustrator and novelist Norman Lindsay.

Billabongs are referred to relatively often in Australian literature ; Banjo Paterson's famous folk song " Waltzing Matilda " takes place beside a billabong.

In 2008, Australian historian Peter Forrest claimed that the widespread belief that Paterson had penned the ballad as a socialist anthem, inspired by the Great Shearers ' Strike, was false and a " misappropriation " by political groups.

In it he " continued his assault on Paterson and the romantics, and in the process, virtually reinvented Australian realism ".

" Clancy of The Overflow " is a poem by Banjo Paterson, first published in The Bulletin, an Australian news magazine, on 21 December 1889.

( Banjo ) Paterson, 2008 and Jack Thompson, Favourite Australian Poems, Fine Poets Collection Volume 5, 2010.

Thompson is featured in a series of recordings of Australian poetry, reciting poems by Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson, C. J.

Category: Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Paterson