[Editor: This article, written against the transportation of convicts into Australia, was published in The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, NSW), 30 October 1850.] The Australasian movement against transportation. If any thing were needful to prove the very obvious fact, … [Read more...] about The Australasian movement against transportation [30 October 1850]
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Stanzas, Written on the Death of an Irish Emigrant Girl at Sea [poem, 16 November 1850]
Stanzas, Written on the Death of an Irish Emigrant Girl at Sea. (From the Australian Era.) Weep for the dead ! let the mourning wail, Break soft o’er the sun-lit wave ; Let the sighs ye waft on the passing gale Fall light on her billowy grave. Weep for the dead ! who … [Read more...] about Stanzas, Written on the Death of an Irish Emigrant Girl at Sea [poem, 16 November 1850]
The Beautiful Land of Australia [song, 1905]
[Editor: This song was published in The Old Bush Songs (1905), edited by Banjo Paterson. It was previously published (with minor variations) in The Perth Gazette, and Independent Journal of Politics and News, 3 May 1850.] The Beautiful Land of Australia All you on … [Read more...] about The Beautiful Land of Australia [song, 1905]