The Book

The Creation of Waltzing Matilda - Australia's unofficial national anthem and international Australian icon

‘This work throws significant new light on the circumstances of the song's composition and subsequent transmission and is an important contribution to the ongoing discussions on Australia's unofficial national anthem'. Prof. Graham Seal etc....

‘The Creation of Waltzing Matilda' is the combination of almost 16 years' research into the 1894 shearer's strike and the subsequent relationship with the writing of the original song. Without the shearer's strike of 1894 Waltzing Matilda would never have been written.

This work is probably the most concise and referenced academic article ever written on ‘The Creation of Waltzing Matilda'.

Presentation at the 2008 National Folklore Conference