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Banjo Patterson; Learning From an Aussie Icon
Walking in the footsteps of an Aussie icon, famous writer, journalist and poet and creator of the Man of Snowy River and Waltzing Matilda; Banjo Paterson. Andrew Barton “Banjo” Paterson wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the district around Binalong, New South Wales, where he spent much of his childhood. Born at the property Narrambla near Orange, New South Wales, Banjo was the eldest son of Andrew Bogle Paterson, who was a Scottish immigrant from Lanarshire. His mother was Aiustralian-born Rose Isabella Barton who in the future would be related to the first Australian Prime Minister Edmind Barton. He…