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Freedom on the Wallaby

"Freedom on the Wallaby", Henry Lawson's well known poem, was written as a comment on the 1891 Australian shearers' strike and published by William Lane in The Worker in Brisbane, 16 May 1891.

Publication history
After the poem's initial publication in The Worker it was reprinted in that newspaper on 29 September 1894, and then included in the following anthologies and collections: • Freedom on the Wallaby : Poems of the Australian People edited by Marjorie Pizer, Pinchgut Press, 1953 • The Penguin Australian Song Book edited by J. S. Manifold, 1964 • ''The Essential Henry Lawson : The Best Works of Australia's Greatest Writer'' edited Brian Kiernan, Currey O'Neil, 1982 • A Campfire Yarn : Henry Lawson Complete Works 1885-1900 edited by Leonard Cronin, Lansdowne, 1984 • A Treasury of Bush Verse edited by G. A. Wilkes, Angus and Robertson, 1991 • The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads edited by Elizabeth Webby and Philip Butterss, Penguin, 1993 • Our Country : Classic Australian Poetry : From Colonial Ballads to Paterson & Lawson edited by Michael Cook, Little Hills Press, 2002 • 60 Classic Australian Poems for Children edited by Chris Cheng, Random House, 2009 ==See also==
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