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Byrnes argues that Wentworth's "Australasia" exhibits the style of "pipes" (anonymous, scurrilous verses) which circulated in the early years of the Australian colony. Wentworth is the link, Byrnes suggests, between these early examples of colonial verse and the subsequent development of Australian poetry.