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The Banjo and the Bard gives an account of a poetic debate between Banjo Patterson and Henry Lawson about the Australian bush, which ran over several weeks in the Bulletin magazine.

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'Henry Lawson's 'The Drover's Wife' was first published in the Sydney Bulletin on 23 July 1892. This issue of the Bulletin also contains the debate-in-verse about the bush between Lawson and A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson. Lawson's story can be read in the context of this debate, but a reader is also rewarded for paying close attention to the form and style that Lawson employs.'
Source: Osborne, Roger. 'The Bush Legend'. http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowTrail&trailId=4aedd5e3-0b6a-cfba-2640-cc0cedfabf09 (Sighted 21/02/12)

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Plebeians v Aristocrats : Two Exciting Matches Phillip Adams , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian Magazine , 13-14 August 1988; (p. 12)
— Review of The Banjo and the Bard Bill Bennett , 1988 single work film/TV