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The article discusses the film "Australia" in relation to the Australian fiction "Capricornia" and "Poor Fellow My Country" by Xavier Herbert. It compares the contrasting motifs of the movie and the novels. The author outlines the characters in the novels and explores how aspects of these characters are similarly played out in the movie. Overviews of the movie and the novels are also given.
(p. 16-18)
Tidali"At the top of the tide the float pauses, rising and falling",Ron Pretty,
single work poetry
(p. 18)
The article presents a history of the Australian folk song, "Click Go the Shears." The song is a parody of "Ring the Bell, Watchman," a Civil War-era song composed by American Henry Clay Work. Jack Moses, a bush poet, gave the text of the song to Catholic priest and folk song collector Percy Jones, in the early 1940s. According to the author, copyright claims to the song are in question. Work done by folk song collectors such as Burl Ives, John Meredith and Alfred Hill are also described.
