We have collected the voice of Australians and presented them in this article. You can now read and listen to the music, stories, ebook etc of the different people expressed in there own words.
Australians have always been outspoken. Two famous Australians, Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson, used their writings to reveal the problems in Australia and also its strength and courage.
The Drover’s Wife is a must read if you want to know about what life was like for women in the bush. Henry Lawson shows us a day in her life that captures the isolation and shows her courage and determination.
If you like sports, try Dyson’s A Friendly Game of Football. If you like horse racing read Banjo’s famous A Dream of the Melbourne Cup, or Father Riley’s Horse or Gordon’s How We Beat the Favourite. For a good yarn about horse racing try Boake’s How Babs Malone Cut Down the Field.
John O’Brien is a favourite of ours. He uses humour in stories like Said Hanrahan to show us his Australia. No belly laughs, but we hope it will bring a smile of recognition as he introduces you to the colourful characters of his day.
Although it was written as a children’s book, Ethel Pedley’s Dot and the Kangaroo e-book is a delight for the child in all of us. It’s a fanciful tale of a little girl lost in the bush and the very outspoken animals that help her get home while riding in the pouch of a friendly kangaroo.
In contrast The Red Kangaroo by Ethel Castilla is the story of a kangaroo hunt that goes wrong in more ways than one. It’s an affair of the heart that lead to unexpected consequences.
We hope you enjoy our selection of poems and stories about Australia.
Voices from the Past | |
— PAGE ONE — Remembrance Poems Banjo Paterson Henry Lawson Ethel C. Pedley Norman Lindsay Mary Hannay Foott Adam Lindsay Gordon Barcroft Henry Boake C J Dennis • E W Cole Louis Esson • John O’Brien Ethel Castilla • Mary Gilmore | — PAGE TWO — James Lister Cuthbertson Henry Handel Richardson Inez Hyland • Victor Daley Edward George Dyson George Essex Evans Caroline Carleton Louisa Lawson Henry Kendall Rex Ingamells 1920s Aussie Dictionary |
Henry Handel Richardson
Short Story
Victor Daley
Caroline Carleton
Louisa Lawson
The mother of Henry Lawson
Poems
Articles from The Dawn
Rex Ingamells
- Camels new
- The Camp Fires of the Past new
- Captain William Bligh new
- The Days of Delight new
- Macquarie Harbour new
- Shifting Camp new
- Ship from the Thames new
Edward George Dyson
Inez Hyland
James Lister Cuthbertson
George Essex Evans
Henry Kendall
- The Last of His Tribe
- How The Melbourne Cup Was Won
- Camped by the Creek
- Footfalls
- Billy Vickers
- Faith In God
- Bell Birds
- Australian War Song
- Bill The Bullock-Driver
- Watching
- Mountains
- Etheline
- Bob
- Geraldine
- Coogee
- September in Australia
- The Warrigal
- The Australian Emigrant
- The Wild Kangaroo
- The Barcoo
- The Austral Months
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