COLONIALISM of Australia is a load of crap and fails to represent a 'true' representation of 'Australians'.

I once learned by 'School' that Blaxland, Wentworth & Lawson 'pathfinded' the way across the Great Dividing Range and how 'Gloriously of Colonialism'.  ::)
It was bullcrap! The Dharruk and other Sydney Tribes had many pathways, worn from thousands of years of use and covered in as much of the most reddest of dirts to  artistically represent the bloodlines (arteries, veins) of their World's (Australia) 'body'. They made this Land their 'Canvas' to show 'beauty' back into the heavens above.
Blaxland, Wentworth & Lawson just followed one of these and eventually made their way across. They were too arrogant to even ask the Dharruk which was the quickest/easiest way across the Mountains, let alone - be taken across directly. They 'fumbled' their way across.

So with this, comes my 2nd awakening. WALTZING MATHILDA was a load of hogwash!  ::)
What man would drown himself over a bloody sheep?!  ::)
The real story behind it was a Man who lost both his wife and child, went into the Billabong to drown his sorrows.
He was not chased by Troopers or on some Squatter's Land, etc. That was a plagerism on a historical truth and exploited it with something that comes from bloody Scotland!  ::)

So they turn an innocent man who drowned from the pain of his loss in a billabong to something of a 'crime' by Colonialists with Troopers, Squatter owning the land and a sheep. ::) ::)

Tossers!

Well, Whartey could have just followed the Aboriginal tracks over the Blueys, eh?  Save a lot of time and trouble...

Don't talk shyte Jason.... when I attended primary school in the 60's we were taught then that Aboriginals showed Blaxland, Lawson & Wentworth how to get over the Blue Mountains.

I don't think you know what side of the fence you're sitting... seems to be both on occasions...

just what hat do you have on here?

Re: Waltzing Matilda..... it's called artistic license.

You haven't seen that expressed before then I take it?

There are many stories retold in print, movies and music that glossy up a mediocre story to sell it.

The progressives rewriting of Aboriginal history is real glossy up.

Well maybe your 60's education on Colonialism was a bit closer to the truth - back there in the past, compared to my 1970s/80s version down the track? Shows how much the 'truth' can change, eh ;)
Little wonder then, that you exhibit (sell out) BULLCRAP as something better than the mediocre original truth of a man's sorrow over the death of his wife and child.

Oh look, a child got molested. That's ok, we'll just sell a better version like "Oh look, a child got a lolly for sitting on Santa's Lap"  ::)

Makes me wonder how that man's wife and child died eh?
Probably by some Troopers and a Squatter who raped her, then killed both her and the child.

I reckon you Colonialists killed them and created Waltzing Mathilda to cover the truth and even made the sorrowed Man out to be a Thief of a bloody sheep.  ::) >:(