Australia - Robert Hughes' car accident and bush visit
two clips from the 6 part TV series "Australia - Beyond the Fatal Shore" (2000) by Robert Hughes.
It starts with Hughes speaking of his near fatal car wreck (May 28, 1999, near Broome, Western Australia), and after that I put on a selection from his visit to a famous homestead in the bush, Malboona station, West Queensland.
The excerpt on Hughes' car accident opens the series, the start of episode one titled "Body and Soul". The other excerpt is from the second episode, "The Dead Heart". Hughes says "In America, great space set people free, and the further west you went the freer you got. The basic fact of colonial Australia was that space was the prison. Escape into it and you would be speared by blacks or starve."
Malboona station is over 120,000 acres and 35,000 sheep, out in remote western Queensland.
Hughes sings 'Waltzing Matilda' with Bill Deane.
Here is the website on 'Waltzing Matilda' put up by the National Library of Australia:
http://www.nla.gov.au/epubs/waltzingm...
Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong,
Under the shade of a coolibah tree,
And he sang as he watched and waited 'til his billy boiled
"Who'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me?"
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me"
And he sang as he watched and waited 'til his billy boiled,
"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me".
Down came a jumbuck to drink at the billabong,
Up got the swagman and grabbed him with glee,
And he sang as he stowed that jumbuck in his tucker bag,
"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me".
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me"
And he sang as he stowed that jumbuck in his tucker bag,
"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me".
Down came the squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred,
Up came the troopers, one, two, three,
"Who's that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag?"
"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me".
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me"
"Who's that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag?",
"You'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me".
Up got the swagman and jumped into the billabong,
"You'll never catch me alive," said he,
And his ghost may be heard as you passed by that billabong,
"Who'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me?"
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
Who'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me
And his ghost may be heard as you passed by that billabong,
"Who'll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me?"
