Banjo Paterson
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Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author, widely considered one of the greatest writers of Australia's colonial period.
Banjo Paterson, c. 1890
Paterson as a baby with his nanny, Wiradjuri girl Fanny Hopkins, mid-1860s
The Gladesville cottage Rockend, where Paterson lived in the 1870s and 1880s
This portrait of Paterson is reproduced on the Australian ten-dollar note.
Henry Lawson
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Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial
Banjo Paterson
…1890s, he formed friendships with other significant writers in Australian literature, such as E.J. Brady, Harry "Breaker" Morant, Will H. Ogilvie, and Henry Lawson. In particular, Paterson became engaged in a friendly rivalry of verse with Lawson about the allure of bush life. Paterson became a war correspondent…
Lawson c. 1915
Grenfell, Lawson's birthplace, during the 2011 Henry Lawson Festival
Portrait of Lawson, c. 1902
Lawson (right) with J. F. Archibald, founder of The Bulletin